Using Movie Maker and Burning DVD's: A Simple Question

[John]

I'm hoping someone can help me try to figure out Microsoft
Movie Maker, and MyDVD5. Let me start from the beginning.

I uploaded some video from my DV video camera in order to
create a movie with still pictures, movies, etc. After the
video was uploaded, I created my movie using Microsoft
Movie Maker. I added still pictures, transitions, music
without a problem. I have to say that Microsoft Movie
Maker was very easy to use and gave me exactly what I was
looking for. When it asked me to save the file, I did and
it gave it the file extension .mswmm. I thought that was
kind of strange, but just accepted it.

Then the microsoft website suggested I needed third party
software like Sonic's MyDVD to burn what I just created
onto a DVD. So I purchased Sonic's MyDVD5 Plus, and here's
where I run into problems.

I am unable to open the Movie Maker movie I just made
cause it says it does not recognize the .mswmm extension
that is on the file. In Movie Maker, I am unable to change
the file extension to something different so now I'm stuck.

I'm sure there's an easy solution to this that I'm just
missing so if anyone can give any guiance it would be
greatly appreciated. In the meantime I'm going to continue
to scroll through these pages to see if anyone has had the
same problem I have.

Thanks in advance.

John

 

[Jake]

The .mswmm file is the Movie Maker 2 project file, which contains all the
information, such as clips, transitions, audio, etc. that Movie Maker needs
to know in order for you to produce your final movie. It's not readable by
other programs.

All that's missing is one step - save your project as a movie. You can
choose to save in .wmv format or .avi format - MyDVD will recognise both
formats, although I always save as .avi as it's lossless and is compatible
with most video editing programs (but larger file size), unlike .wmv which
is not entirely lossless and is only compatible with a handful of other
editing software (but smaller file size).

When you save your movie Movie Maker will render it to your chosen format.
It's this new file that you import into MyDVD5 to complete your masterpiece.

Jake

 

[Alan]

Exactly correct - and I chose the larger DV AVI file to save it as. Sonic
then took the 16 GIG file and shrunk it to fit on 1 dvd - about 500 mg left
over space..

alan