How do I save a movie in DV-AVI format??

[Guest]

I read that in order for regular DVD players to read/play movies I have to
save the movie as DV-AVI. I am looking at Movie Maker 2.1 and the only saving
options are for saving projects.

When opening a project and trying to save it as a movie, there is no option
to choose DV-AVI format... and it ends up saving as .wmv.

Any idea on where this is?

Thanks
Nick

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

in the Saving wizard, when you get to the window about Movie Setting, select
'Show more choices...' if you don't see a drop down list... that'll show the
drop down. In it should be a DV-AVI option.

 

[Guest]

John: thanks... I do not see a saving wizard. I can either save the project
(no option there) or save the movie and whether I select computer or DVD, it
goes directly to the next stage, which saves directly in wmv. Can you tell
where to find this "saving wizard"?

Nick

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Save Movie > My Computer > name and location > Movie Setting (with the
option for more)....

those windows you step thru are what I refer to as the Saving Wizard

 

[Rehan]

Here is a video tutorial for this procedure
http://files9.atomiclearning.com/movielib/mm2_059_saveotherx.mov

More Movie maker tutorials:
http://www.atomiclearning.com/moviemaker2

 

[Guest]

Thanks John. It only gets better... I did find the DV-AVI option by choosing
the "save on computer" option. It estimated the file would be 38GB large (for
2h45min of footage?), I tried it out anyhow and at 10% completion, Movie
Maker 2.1 crashed on its own with the well known "Application Error, do you
want to send a report?".

Should I understand based on 2h45m = 38GB that the maximum duration I can
record on a 4.7GB DVD is 34 minutes?

Thanks
Nick

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

No, a DVD holds an hour of high quality DVD video... there's a compression
to MPEG-2 that happens after the DV-AVI file is created and the MPEG-2 file
is about 1/3 the size of the DV-AVI.

 

[John Kelly]

Hello,

PRESS CTRL-P to save your video....read the help file provided by
microsoft for all further info you require.

We have a saying here...RTFM

Best Wishes.....John Kely
www.the-kellys.org

 

[Guest]

when you first turn on your camcorder, options will pop up on what quality
you want to capture the video. Click on the one that mentions 'recording the
movie back to a dv tape' and it should save it as an avi file