Burning movie project to a DVD

[Guest]

I'm new to Windows Movie Maker, so please bear with me. I've downloaded digital video from my Sony video camera to Windows Movie Maker, saved as "High quality video (large)" so I could burn it to a DVD for playback on a DVD player. My PC's OS is Windows XP. I've edited and added a soundtrack and am ready to burn it to a DVD. I have a Sony DRU-530A external DVD burner. Movie Maker has saved my project with the *.MSWMM file extension, I saw no other options, and I do not see an option in Movie Maker to save my project to a DVD. When I attempt to use the Sonic "MyDVD" software (version 5.2.1) that came with the DVD burner it will begin to encode, but will then give the following error message: One or more files could not be imported: MyDVD does not support this file type. Check the user guide for details on support files." It appears that MyDVD does not recognize the *.MSWMM extension. Any idea of how I can convert my completed Movie Maker project to say, an .AVI file, or any other hints on how to burn this project to a DVD?

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

When you go to save the movie, do not choose best quality, but other
settings, from the drop down box pick dv-avi then use this file to import in
to sonic.
Graham

I'm new to Windows Movie Maker, so please bear with me. I've downloaded

digital video from my Sony video camera to Windows Movie Maker, saved as
"High quality video (large)" so I could burn it to a DVD for playback on a
DVD player. My PC's OS is Windows XP. I've edited and added a soundtrack and
am ready to burn it to a DVD. I have a Sony DRU-530A external DVD burner.
Movie Maker has saved my project with the *.MSWMM file extension, I saw no
other options, and I do not see an option in Movie Maker to save my project
to a DVD. When I attempt to use the Sonic "MyDVD" software (version 5.2.1)
that came with the DVD burner it will begin to encode, but will then give
the following error message: One or more files could not be imported: MyDVD
does not support this file type. Check the user guide for details on support
files." It appears that MyDVD does not recognize the *.MSWMM extension. Any
idea of how I can convert my completed Movie Maker project to say, an .AVI
file, or any other hints on how to burn this project to a DVD?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Graham. I did discover that there was a folder on my C: drive named "My DVD" and did save my project to it as DV-AVI (NTSC). Unfortunately, I was a bit too ambitious and I have about 736 MB that I'll need to cut out. Oh well, now I have a weekend project. Thanks again.

 

[Guest]

Save in DV-AVI format on PC then burn to DVD. This is AVI file.