Saving a Windows Movie Maker Film that will play on a DVD

[Guest]

I take digital videos of my for sale horses and produce movies with movie
maker. They will play on the computer just fine. I save to a DVD and they
play on the computer just fine. When I put them into the DVD player they do
not play. I get an error about the playback feature is not available on this
disk. I have burned up 10 disks trying different methods all to no
resolution. I understand the DVD players like MPEG 2 but MS Movie Maker does
not save in that format or at least I can't get it to. I'm using an Acer
Ferrari 3400 with 2GB memory and MS XP pro. I have all the updates
installed. So where do I go from here. I and my customers awaite your
solution.

 

[John Inzer]

I take digital videos of my for sale horses and produce
movies with movie maker. They will play on the computer
just fine. I save to a DVD and they play on the computer
just fine. When I put them into the DVD player they do
not play. I get an error about the playback feature is
not available on this disk. I have burned up 10 disks
trying different methods all to no resolution. I
understand the DVD players like MPEG 2 but MS Movie Maker
does not save in that format or at least I can't get it
to. I'm using an Acer Ferrari 3400 with 2GB memory and
MS XP pro. I have all the updates installed. So where
do I go from here. I and my customers awaite your
solution.

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You need DVD authoring software.

Maybe these links will get you started:

Turn your Movie Maker 2
video into a DVD
http://tinyurl.com/4k97d

Wojo's Web...DVD Creation
http://tinyurl.com/g64gb

Burn a Movie Maker Project to DVD
http://tinyurl.com/644me

How do I make a DVD
http://www.rehanfx.org/faq.htm

Windows Movie Maker Forums
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/

Movie Maker 2 and DVD Burning Software
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-DVD.html

Burning DVDs With Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/jqfz

How do I save my movie as a
DV-AVI file in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/8ktlw


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*Notice*
This is not tech support.
I am only a volunteer.....

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you.

Proceed at your own risk.

John Inzer
Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

You need to save the completed file as a DV-AVI and then use third party
software (Nero, Roxio, PowerDirector, WinDVD Creator) to create a Video DVD.
Windows Movie Maker cannot create a Video DVD.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the responce. I have tried to save it as you suggest but I
get an error file exceeds the 4gb filesize limit.

 

[neseho]

All-in-one software Total Video Converter http://www.effectmatrix.com
can convert and burn automaticlly.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the info. So I gather the MS software is rather useless and
the real solution is to use something else. So Tuesday I buy an Apple then
put Linux on this box and be free of software that doesn't work. All the
frustration for nothing.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Your hard drive appears to still be in the ancient FAT32 format. You need
to convert it to NTFS.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

There's no frustration, you formatted the drive in FAT32 instead of NTFS.
It's user error, rather than Microsoft error.

 

[Jim]

There's no frustration, you formatted the drive in FAT32 instead of NTFS.
It's user error, rather than Microsoft error.

And MS will show you how easily you can convert FAT32 to NTFS in a few seconds.

Jim

 

[Guest]

Hi

I don't know if this will help you but I have juts completed a 45 minute
film and saved on DVD using W Movie Maker (2.0) and Nero (6). The DVD runs
both on my Computer and a TP DVD player for playback on my TV. My Film
comprised a mixture of still pictures (and MPEG files) and Video from my
Camcorder. Nero won't allow you to mix JPEGs and Video at the same time.

My WMM film had to be done in 5 segments the longest being 15 minutes (owing
to WMM falling over). I then saved each segement using the "Save Movie"
option from the File menu and then brought each segment into Nero and
assembled the completed film. It may seem like a lot of hassle but in
practice was very easy and it worked like a dream and did not involve
converting into any other formats.

Good luck

Ossie

 

[Martin]

When saved by Moviemaker as DV-AVI and dropped into Nero Vision
Express, the resulting DVD video will have bad audio distortion:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...90b6c40c939/bc370760486c2f72#bc370760486c2f72

I haven't found a way around this - my only workaround so far is to
save as the highest-quality WMV, which for whatever reason does not
result in audio distortion in Nero. But the video quality is not as
good as I would get by saving as AVI.

Martin