Saving movie and burning to DVD

[Kevin Humphreys]

Hi,
I have cimpiled a Windows movie maker compilation now I want to burn this to
DVD.
When I go to save movie to my computer what is the best format to use for
full quality and how can I burn to DVD then so playable in a DVD player?

Thanks In Advance,
Kevin.

 

[Guest]

You can get a DVD Burning Application by visiting this website, www.nero.com
then download the nerovision express 4. This is the latest version that i've
found in the web...

 

[Graham Hughes]

first save the movie as a dv-avi
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/HowToSaveDV-AVI.htm
Then as mentioned above you need to use another programme for the dvd
authoring. If you aleady have a burner it should have come with something,
such as nero/roxio/windvd maker.......

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[Kevin Humphreys]

thanks. what is the best format to use in Windows Movie Maker for full
quality when saving the compilation to the Hard drive?

 

[Guest]

I saved my imported vidoe as dv-avi, then moved portions to the timeline and
added transitions and music. The Write DVD option in MovieMaker 2 gave me
the option of writing to disk as dv-avi or best. The dv-avi takes up too
much room on the dvd, so I chose best. Would I get better quality with a
different DVD writer, like Nero? thank you!

 

[Wojo]

Ignore the filesize of the DV-AVI as it will almost always be larger then
the 4.7GB of a DVD but it doesn't matter as whichever DVD Authoring program
you get will convert the file to MPEG2 (VOB) anyway and thereby compress
your video more. For a high quality DVD 1 hour of video on a disk is a good
rule of thumb. With some software you can adjust the quality to allow more
than an hour on a disk but you sacrifice quality in doing so. Usually if you
adjust to fit 2 hours on a DVD the quality is still good but noticeably
different. As far as programs to use Nero Vision Express is a good one but
has a high learning curve and simply isn't very user friendly. There a list
of some of the most popular DVD Authoring programs on my website in the "DVD
Programs" section along with links to purchase or download trial versions of
most of them. That would be another thing I don't like about Nero they don't
offer a working trial of Vision Express so you can't check it out before
spending your money.
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