S.O.S b4 despair with VCD and MM2...

[alex]

Hi, whoever is out there...

For nearly 10 days I've been trying to master finally the
technique of video capturing and editing via Movie Maker
2. I've finalised the project, saved it to my hard
drive....and now want to get it on a CD -R/RW to send to
friends, so they can watch it on their standalone DVD
player...
Well, that's where I am stuck as all burnt CDs so far do
not play on a DVD yet, what ever I do... I rendered it now
even in AVI format (10GB for 40 min film) and tried to
burn it via Nero (60 days trial version), but still no
luck and it comes out as a DAT file, which even movie or
media player can't read anymore...
Don't know, where the missing link is. My standalone DVD
is a Panasonic S35, which according to instructions plays
VCD,SVCD,DVDs etc...
Any Merlin Whizard around to save me from going insane...?
Thanks a lot
xxx A.

 

[MR]

Hi, whoever is out there...

For nearly 10 days I've been trying to master finally the
technique of video capturing and editing via Movie Maker
2. I've finalised the project, saved it to my hard
drive....and now want to get it on a CD -R/RW to send to
friends, so they can watch it on their standalone DVD
player...
Well, that's where I am stuck as all burnt CDs so far do
not play on a DVD yet, what ever I do... I rendered it now
even in AVI format (10GB for 40 min film) and tried to
burn it via Nero (60 days trial version), but still no
luck and it comes out as a DAT file, which even movie or
media player can't read anymore...
Don't know, where the missing link is. My standalone DVD
is a Panasonic S35, which according to instructions plays
VCD,SVCD,DVDs etc...
Any Merlin Whizard around to save me from going insane...?
Thanks a lot
xxx A.

Try saving it to a wmv file for HQ video NTSC and then burn with Nero.
That's what I do and it works fine. You have a choice in Nero to
encode as vcd or svcd. Some dvd players will not play
svcd...........i.e. most of my relatives<g>.
Good luck,
MR