Does burning movie to CD take a long time?

[Guest]

I am trying to burn my saved movie onto a CD so I can have a friend burn it
onto a DVD for me. Does this process normally take a long time? When I
start it, the job time says thousands of minutes. The movie is about 7-8
minutes long.

Are there any other ways I can get the movie from my computer to his? Tried
e-mail -- files too big. Thanks!

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Use Instant Messaging.... via AOL or MSN

On saving, there's a number of things it could be. See the Problem Solving >
Can't Save a Movie page of my site.
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[Graham Hughes]

If you are saving an avi file, which you really need to to make a good dvd,
then you will need 3 cd's for this project. Make the movie in 3 small pieces
and then try saving each to a cd. You'll be able to join them back up later
when making the dvd.

 

[Jerry]

Really? A movie only 7-8 minutes long must be split between three different
CDs and then merged to a DVD? If that is true then I'm sure glad I'm not
burning movies to CDs or DVDs.

 

[Graham Hughes]

Jerry,
Of course you don't have to do this just to make a dvd, but in this case
Rachel does.
She has no dvd burner, her friend does. An avi of 8 minutes is just under
2gb, this would need to be split into 3 cd's 700mb each to take to her
friend. He can then merge them and put them onto a dvd.
Now if she had a dvd writer installed, she could just burn a dvd using her
avi file on the hdd.

Graham

 

[Rehan]

Another option could be that she makes a cDVD or miniDVD which is a DVD
layed out on a CD. Maximum it can contain is 15 minutes worth of DVD movie
which is enough for her.

Then she can send the CD to her friend who can transfer the contents without
any conversion to a dvd. However most of the current domestic dvd players
can actually play a miniDVD anyway so she can be home early.

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Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for movie maker

 

[Guest]

I am really new to this and realize that I do not even know how to pose a
question in this forum. My problem is that I have created a beautiful
audio/visual movie of about 18 minutes in length. When I burn it to the cd
....all of the music is burned, but only about 3/4 of the video. I think I
have lots of space on my CD...but do not understand why the video always
stops early. Many thanks for anyone who can advise me.

 

[Dean Rowe]

We've seen other reports of this behaviour with the pictures/video freezing
and the audio continuing especially on timelines with a lot of transitions.

We made a fix in Windows Movie Maker 2.1 within Windows XP SP2 so this
problem hopefully shouldn't occur. If you don't want to install SP2 yet
you can also try the following workaround.

Sometimes just trying to save your movie again will work, as it doesn't
always repro 100% of the time. If in your case it is consistenly failing
then the other suggestion I have is to save your movie as a DV-AVI file
first. To do this, when you're on the Movie Settings page choose "Other
Settings" and select DV-AVI from the list (if Other Settings isn't visible
then click "Show more choices...").

Play back the resultant DV-AVI file to make sure that it's OK. If you want
to save it as a WMV file to save disk space you can then import the DV-AVI
file back into MovieMaker, drag it down to the timeline then publish it
again as a WMV file with your choice of profile.
Regards
Dean Rowe
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