Creating a home movie

[Guest]

I have just started using movie maker 2.1 to create my movies I have tried to
save the movie as DV AVI file but is to large to burn on to a 4.2Gb disc,
when I save the movie as High Quality Video (PAL) I seem to lose picture
quality.

Can I compress the DV AVI version to fit on to a 4.2Gb disc or will I have
to cut the movie down.

Cheers

 

[Burgy]

My dvd burner came with NERO. It has the option to recode. That recodes the
avi file to fit on a single DVD. Your dvd software probably has the same
type of options. There is very little loss of quality.
Your DVD burning program will make it fit on a DVD

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

You don't put the AVI on the DVD. You use your third party software to
re-encode the DV-AVI file and burn the DVD. You can fit about two hours
worth of video on a DVD drive.

You'll save the DV-AVI, open your third party software, import the DV-AVI
and tell it to burn the DVD. Don't think about file size, think about time
length.

 

[Smike]

cut file, save fragments, copy to another PC,
then compose again

XEDIT.EXE
http://xedit.smike.ru
for huge files more than 1 Gig use:
"Tools"->"Fragmentize File" to pieces
If you want for gather file again from pieces use:
"Tools"->"Compose File" from pieces