converting wmv file to DVD

[Cheryl]

I'm a rookie with Windows Movie Maker. I have moved a
video from my camera to the pc, used MM to edit it, dub
music over the video and saved it as a wmv file. I burned
the file to cd and it works great on a pc, but is it
possible to burn this video on a dvd so that it not only
plays on my dvd player (for the computer), but also the
dvd player connected to my t.v.?

Also... I have read thru numerous pages of posts here and
keep reading about papajohn's website. Is it
papjohn.org??? I can't get that page to display.

Thanks in advance for the help.
Cheryl

 

[Raymond]

If you have a DVD writer and some DVD authoring software
then it is very simple. I suggest MyDvd from Sonic since
it has built in support for .wmv files.

There is a thread about this here:
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?
ForumID=7

 

[Ray]

About Papajohns site...
He said:
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?
PostID=1114


Yes, it's on my son's business server and it's down.

I checked and he told me that a partition got messed up
last night, so he's fixing it and changing the operating
system. He said it should be back later this afternoon.

I'll be out for a few more hours and appreciate any help
spreading the word.

Thanks,

PapaJohn

 

[Cari MS-MVP]

Save the MovieMaker file as a DV-AVI... then use your third party burning
software to encode that file and burn it to the DVD.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Greg]

Why go to all the trouble of having to save your Movie
Maker project as a Huge DV-AVI file, importing into
another program to make it MPEG-2 then importing into the
DVD authoring software to create the DVD?

Just buy MyDVD and make it simple for yourself. I think
it sells for $50.00 and MyDVD is a Microsoft recommended
product for DVD creation with Movie Maker 2.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker/learnmore/dv
dburn.asp

 

[Cari MS-MVP]

Even Roxio will reencode a WMV file but it you want the best quality, why
start with a compressed file? Encoding the DV-AVI file will result in the
best resolution.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

Thats the way I would do it...DV-AVI first...saves a lot of messing around
later if things don't go right too.

 

[anonymous for now]

When you save it as DV-AVI, is there a way to control the
size of the file? I have a 30 min video that is resulting
in a 5Gb file.
Do I really need 720*480?

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

DV-AVI is one of those standards set in stone. Software packages recognize
it for what it is and away they go...if you change the quality or the
screen dimensions it would not be DV-AVI. Those programs that do change the
quality or dimensions have to give the file a new name...like WMV or
whatever.

But anyway, the point of creating a DV-AVI file first is (in our terms at
least) the best quality you are going to get...giving you the ability to
come down to another format and quality as the situation
requires....clearly if you spent all your computers time creating that
lower quality first, and then you find that what you really needed was a
higher quality, well, your up a gum tree as they say. Also, each time you
edit a frame and output it you will lose some of the quality, and if you
start with a lower quality frame in the first place your final render will
clearly be even lower in quality.