Movie Maker did not work!

[Guest]

I had someone who scanned about 100 pictures for me on their movie maker.
She burned to DVD and nothing happened. She E-mailed them to me and they
came up with red Xs. I was able to get it to my hard drive, but unable to
edit it. I went out and bought a new computer and had my old files put on
the new computer. The movie has changed to 18 clips and I cannot seperate
them to put in the correct order. Any suggestions???

 

[PapaJohn]

When you use Movie Maker there are two kinds of files you can save, the
project file and the movie made from it....

the project file contains the info about the movie but has no pictures in
it... the movie is complete and is what you watch playing. One is like the
menu for a great dinner.... the other is the dinner itself.

red-Xs mean you are looking at the project file, expecting it to be the
complete movie.... see my website > Online > Tutorials and References page
for links to online basic info about how Movie Maker works.

 

[RalfG]

If the idea is to get copies of the individual photos then the whole process
used to transfer them was wrong from the beginning. WMM is the wrong
software to use for that.Your friend should have scanned the photos to the
harddrive and then simply burned the photos directly onto the DVD, or
included full resolution copies of the photos along with the slideshow/movie
clips created by WMM.

Creating a slide show from photos or even individual movie clips in WMM
reduces the resolution and therefore the image detail of the pictures, often
greatly. A 5-megapixel photo from a digital camera is approximately
2600x1900 pixels resolution. Since the maximum resolution of pictures in the
DVD clips can only be 640x480 or 720x480 pixels, the Movie Maker clips leave
you with less than 1/10th of the detail in the original images. Scanned
photos would be subject to the same problem.

Aside from all that, it sounds like there was some sort of error made in the
process of creating that DVD.