Scenes disappearing when going from Movie Maker to DVD Maker

[Guest]

....and I thought my first video edit/publish with Vista would be flawless.

I've captured and edited about 84 minutes of video in Windows Movie Maker.
I then attempt to publish to DVD. Movie Maker automatically saves my video
and opens up Windows DVD maker. That is where the problems begin. When I
preview the movie before burning, a few of the scenes are missing.
Furthermore, parts of some scenes are missing video. It's like MM/DVD Maker
decided to shorten the DVD by randomly deleting scenes or parts of scenes.
However, the TOTAL LENGTH of DVD is still shows to be the same (84 minutes).
I went ahead and burned it last night and saw the same issue. Missing
scenes/video.

Please help! I can't find anything on the web about MM/DVD Maker losing
parts of a video. Thanks for anyone who can help.

 

[John Inzer]

...and I thought my first video edit/publish with Vista would be
flawless.

I've captured and edited about 84 minutes of video in Windows Movie
Maker. I then attempt to publish to DVD. Movie Maker automatically
saves my video and opens up Windows DVD maker. That is where the
problems begin. When I preview the movie before burning, a few of
the scenes are missing. Furthermore, parts of some scenes are missing
video. It's like MM/DVD Maker decided to shorten the DVD by randomly
deleting scenes or parts of scenes. However, the TOTAL LENGTH of DVD
is still shows to be the same (84 minutes). I went ahead and burned
it last night and saw the same issue. Missing scenes/video.

Please help! I can't find anything on the web about MM/DVD Maker
losing parts of a video. Thanks for anyone who can help.

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Windows DVD maker? Apparently you are running Vista.
This newsgroup is focused on Windows XP...the following
group is for Vista:

Discussions in Windows Vista
Music, Pictures, and Video
http://tinyurl.com/yqjkwz

FWIW...you may have an issue with file formats...have a
look at the following article:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

I'm no expert on this but I'm thinking there's also a
possibility that the length of the video could be at issue.
60 minutes of video per 4.7 GB DVD is the max unless
you have authoring software that can compress the file.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

Oh I feel your pain. I made a slideshow last year that was a hassle but I
got through it. Bought the Sonic/Roxio DVD transfer software. This time
sometimes it works sometimes not. I am getting music but blackness towards
the end of the show. Music finishes fine but I get no picture. I am going
MENTAL. I thought it was Roxio/Sonic but it is definately something with
Moviemaker or Media Player. When it's done saving to my harddrive, I now
check to play it first before burning to a DVD. Media Player's version is
cutting off stuff and I don't know how to fix it either. It's very random so
messing with controls is futile. Got any ideas for ME ???