Creating Movie then burning DVD to play in Stand alone player

[Guest]

I want to understand if these are the correct steps necessary for me to make
my own DVD's at home:
1. Take move with Sony DV camera
2. Download using Firewire to Movie Maker - using DVI quality
3. Edit movie in Movie Maker
4. Final Save as DVI quality
5. Open MyDVD, and then add move that was just created
6. MyDVD will take the AVI file and automatically convert to MPEG-2, and
then burn it to DVD, so that stand alone players (those to view on TV's) will
play the DVD's.

Is this all correct, or are there any steps or other necessary software or
decoders missing from this process?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

You've got it OK... run a short video through all the steps to gain
confidence + verify they all work fine
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Guest]

The DVD burned perfectly and well it plays great on the laptop, and the 1st
time I ran it on a set top dvd player it worked fine too, but then the times
after it, the movie begins to hang, and I hear the player trying to read and
play it, but it just skips along and gets stuck etc.

Any ideas or solutions? The player itself is about 5 years old a Sony DVP
S560D.

IndianBug

 

[Wojo]

When's the last time the DVD lens was cleaned?
Older DVD players, especially if uncleaned, tend to not play home burned
DVD's very well.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Wojo is right... mine won't play at all on my DVD player of the same
vintage.... you might be lucky to have gotten that far.

Take the disc into a local store and see how it fares on some of the newer
players...

--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Guest]

Some older DVD players don't like DVD-R or DVD+R, you
could try a DVD-RW disc and see how that goes (assuming
you haven't already done that)

 

[Guest]

I have not tried to clean the player, I should do that it's been a while,
time to go buy a DVD cleaner...

But I was also going to take it over to my in-laws who just recently
purchased a new Toshiba progressive scan player for their new DLP TV so if it
works on that with no issues then I will have to upgrade my player to a newer
model.

What is the main difference between DVD -R vs. DVD RW?

Oh any recommendations on the DVD player if I need to upgrade that would
allow me to play home made burned DVD's?

 

[Wojo]

I have not tried to clean the player, I should do that it's been a while,
time to go buy a DVD cleaner...

That's always a good idea.

But I was also going to take it over to my in-laws who just recently
purchased a new Toshiba progressive scan player for their new DLP TV so if
it
works on that with no issues then I will have to upgrade my player to a
newer
model.

I would definitely do that. The poster that commented on DVD-R / +R is
correct, as I just recently learned, some DVD players won't play one or the
other. But I am not sure that is your issue since it did play the 1st time.

What is the main difference between DVD -R vs. DVD RW?

Well the difference between R & RW is easy.
R can only be written to once (save for multisession with a DVD program
since I know somebody will say it if I don't) and RW can be written to more
than once (RW=[R]e[W]rite).
As far as the difference between +R and -R to tell the truth I am not really
certain except to say that some DVD writers can only accept one or the
other.

Oh any recommendations on the DVD player if I need to upgrade that would
allow me to play home made burned DVD's?

All of mine do and I've got a few different brands (RCA, Sony, Toshiba,
GoVideo) but they range from brand new to only a couple years old.

 

[Guest]

PapaJohn,
If I download my Mini DV from my camera into Movie Maker as DVI quality, if
I save the entire project as a Movie Maker file, then come back and keep
editing until my final product, I can then still export it out as DVI quality
to then have MyDVD burn the disk right?

By they way last night tried the test DVD I made on my in-laws newer model
Toshiba DVD player and the disk worked perfectly, time for a new player for
me and my parents.

Please advise,
IndianBug

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

yes, seems like you're all set... enjoy!!!

--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Guest]

PapaJohn,
When I downloaded 30 min of tape, that came to about 6 GB of data on the
computer, how does one fit all that on 1 DVD, when they can only hold 4.7GB?

How much recording time of video can one fit on a DVD?
IndianBug

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

The MPEG-2 files on a DVD are more compressed than a DV-AVI file... and the
compression is such that there isn't an exact relationship between the
movies duration and the file size.... but

a high quality DVD holds an hour of video... some DVD apps will limit the
DVD to an hour....others will let you lower the quality by doing higher
compression, and let you put more than an hour on a disc.

You'll give your DV-AVI files to your DVD software, which will transcode it
to the MPEG-2 files for the disc.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Guest]

Thanks so much for all of your help, I have burned a successful movie of my
new born baby for his grandparents, thanks to you.

IndianBug

 

[Guest]

Sorry PapaJohn, I think one last question for you or anybody else out there.

When I burned the DVD with MyDVD LE (came with my Dell and the DVD burner in
it), it burns perfectly, and run's perfectly at my inlaws newer Toshiba
player, but I can't fast forward on their machine, I can do it on the the
laptop but it did not work on the set top player.

Any advise or suggestions?
IndianBug

 

[Wojo]

I had the same problem with MyDVD LE (I think it may possibly be the way the
lite version works)
I have never had a problem with my higher quality DVD programs though.
It may be that you need a better program to create DVD's to avoid this
problem.