Burning MM2 movie to DVD

[Guest]

I have an HP Pavilion with XP MCE 2005, 1GB of RAM & a P4 3.4GHz processor.
I can make a movie in MM2, & get it saved to .avi with no problem. My
computer came with 3 DVD programs. Sonic RecordNow v7, muvee autoProducer
3.5 Magic Moments, and InterVideo WinDVD. InterVideo only plays DVDs. From
what I can tell, Sonic RecordNow will burn CDs & data disks, but not DVDs
without an upgrade, and muvee will create an mpeg file which jumbles all the
photos & music in my MM2 project, & will burn to a DVD that won't play in my
player!

After trying all of these & researching Papa John's site & newsletters, I do
not believe that I have the correct software to create a DVD which will play
on my player. I seem to be able to get it converted to MPEG2 (although
jumbled), but I don't think any of the software I have will "author" the DVD.
Is this correct?

Thank you for your help!
Teri

 

[Graham Hughes]

I was under the impression MCE had a burning module which could actually be
accessed from within movie maker, using sonic as the base.
Try asking the question in the mediacentre newsgroup, where you'll get help
from people who have and use them dialy, not everyone here will.

Graham

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Lisa Campbell-Smith [MS]]

Hi Hattie,
If your Media Center PC has the capability of burning DVDs, there will be
an option under the Finish Movie heading to Save to DVD. Your movie will
encode to wmv then a Sonic Solutions dialog will pop up to prompt you for
the burn information for your DVD.
Good Luck,
Lisa Campbell-Smith

 

[Wojo]

As the others said you should have the option in Movie Maker to "Save to
DVD" but unfortunately this is not a great solution as all it really does is
save your movie and import it into a DVD burning program to create a DVD.
This leaves you with no options for creating a DVD menu or to put more than
one video/movie on a DVD. Plus, if Lisa is correct, you apparently can't use
DV-AVI as a saving option so a lower quality DVD will be the end result. I
always have and always will recommend a quality DVD authoring program such
as Nero or any of the Ulead DVD programs. There's a list of the more popular
DVD authoring programs on my website in the "DVD Programs" section.

 

[Guest]

I appreciate your suggestions! Followed your advice & posted on the MCE
group. I discovered that I needed to download the Sonic codecs from the HP
website in order to have the "Save to DVD" option available within MCE.
However, as you stated, isn't really a DVD authoring program, nor were any of
the programs that came with it! I went ahead & picked one up & all is well.

Thanks for your replies & assistance!
Teri

 

[Wojo]

Your welcome, and I definitely think you made the right decision the money
spent is well worth it.
-Wojo