Converting a movie to play on a DVD player

[Guest]

I need to convert a Movie Maker 2 file to some format that can be played on a
DVD player. So far my attempts have created a CD that produces various clips
that have the text that is too wide for the TV screen that I am using. I am
a newbie to Windows Movie Maker and am sure this problem has come up several
times for other members of this newsgroup. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I have downloaded the TMPGEnc free converter and have Nero 7
Ultra Edition software.

 

[eeyore]

Hi
I'm not sure what you mean by 'text' is too wide for my TVn

In a recent post someone explained to me that commercial DVD Players
'zoom' - ie cut off 10% of the video. If you have run text to the very
edge of the screen it will be cut off. You can solve this by ensuring
the text is not a full screen width.

The normal process I use is to:
Save the movie to DV-AVI format
Use nero vision express to create the DVD

Hope this helps


Rob

 

[decoder]

I need to convert a Movie Maker 2 file to some format that can be played on
a
DVD player. So far my attempts have created a CD that produces various
clips
that have the text that is too wide for the TV screen that I am using. I
am
a newbie to Windows Movie Maker and am sure this problem has come up
several
times for other members of this newsgroup. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I have downloaded the TMPGEnc free converter and have Nero 7
Ultra Edition software.

Hi, can be many issues to this, one being that the VCD
you created is, or has content in 4.3 ratio, but your
DVD player/TV set defaults to "stretching" to 16.9.
Try the menu's for your DVD/TV and select "auto"?
Is there a reason you don't burn to DVD?

 

[Noelle]

Last August my PC crashed and Windows XP had to be reloaded.

At the moment I am trying to organise all my movie and photostory DVD's and
backup data DVDs and hopefully make a database.

On checking some of these DVDs I notice that any I burned prior to the crash
will now not play on my PC, although they do play on my DVD player and my
laptop.

Those I have burned since the crash play ok.

Anyone have any ideas of why this has happened.

Also I wonder if anyone knows of a good free Catalogue or indexing program
for CDs and DVDs.

Noelle

 

[Guest]

Thanks so much for the feedback. I have no trouble making the DV-AVI file
but am stumped by the next step using Nero. I am using Nero Ultra 7 Edition
and when I go into the Nero Vision section, I am presented with a menu that
includes:
Make DVD
Make CD
Record Directly to CD
Make Movie
Make Slide Show, etc.

When I opt for the "Make DVD", I get a sub-menu:
DVD-Video
Editable Video

I opted for DVD-Video. This brings up still another menu:
Capture Video
Add Video Files
Make Movie
Make Slide Show
Import Disc

I guess I need to pick "Add Video Files?????"

I think I am going about it in the right manner? At this point I just took
the defualt settings to make the video. By the way I took your advice and
redid the video clips after adjusting the width of the text.

When I finally get to the burn point, I seem to be doing OK but get a "Burn
Process Failed" popup window.

Any ideas?

Maybe I should try to burn a CD instead of a DVD as I saw another member
mention that was the way to go.

Dave

 

[Guest]

Many thanks for the feedback.

I remade the video with MM 2 after first taking care of the text overflow
problem. When I convert to a DV-AVI format and then try to burn a DVD-R, I
get an error message ("Burn process failed."). However, I am able to burn a
VCD with the same DV-AVI conversion.

 

[eeyore]

If you are using Nero - normally it also asks if you wish to retain a log.