Movie Maker 2 and MyDVD

[dearingj]

I'm experimenting with widescreen videos in Movie Maker,
and I want to burn one to a DVD. According to
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker/learnmore/dvdburn.asp
I should be able to do this with Sonic MyDVD. MyDVD, as far
as I can tell, does not support widescreen videos. Is there
a setting that will allow me to use my widescreen videos,
or is Microsoft lying to us by saying that MyDVD "is fully
compatible with the Windows Media Video files you will be
creating with Windows Movie Maker 2"?

 

[Guest]

----- dearingj wrote: ----

I'm experimenting with widescreen videos in Movie Maker
and I want to burn one to a DVD. According t
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker/learnmore/dvdburn.as
I should be able to do this with Sonic MyDVD. MyDVD, as fa
as I can tell, does not support widescreen videos. Is ther
a setting that will allow me to use my widescreen videos
or is Microsoft lying to us by saying that MyDVD "is full
compatible with the Windows Media Video files you will b
creating with Windows Movie Maker 2"

 

[dearingj]

Uh, does anyone besides me see a blank reply here? I
can't find this guy's answer.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

I cannot answer to MyDVD, but Movie Maker creates perfect 16:9
movies....its all I use. I would not imagine that MyDVD has the ability to
change this one way or the other....

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,
Disabling the firewall removes the scanning of ports in and out. Whilst it
has no direct effect on MM2 machine is low on CPU power disabling the
firewall will free up processing power. If you have one of the better
AntiVirus programs that monitors everything, turning that off will release
even more processing power. In addition it will not read the flow of data
from a video capture session thereby improving the apparent write speed of
that data.
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org

 

[dearingj]

Apparently MyDVD does not recognize widescreen videos as
widescreen. Is there any way to 'letterbox' the video so
MyDVD will accept it without distorting it?