Confusion in saving movie format

[Guest]

I'm sorry but I'm kind of new to this forum and using movie maker. I have
downloaded the clips from my digital camera. I'm thinking of burning the
movie to DVD. What I did was to first of all save it to the computer. Shall I
select DV-AVI as the format ? I did this but movie maker does not allow me
giving a message that the file is too big for FAT32, whatever this means. So
I selected the format at High Quality and burned it using another DVD
authoring tool but quality is not good. Can anyone tell me where I went wrong
please!

 

[Wojo]

Hi Alfian
FAT32 is the format of your hard drive and it only allows a filesize of 4GB.
A DV-AVI file is very large since it is basically uncompressed and therefore
usually larger than the 4GB limit. High Quality NTSC creates a high quality
video that is compressed so it was less than 4GB but when converted by DVD
Authoring software there is often times a problem with quality.
The best advice I can give is to convert the harddrive to NTFS format. It
takes time but if you are going to be doing a lot of video editing FAT32
drives just do not work well. For more information on converting the drive
to NTFS see this website:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm
Hope that helps
-Wojo