First time Movie Maker user

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Created my first movie (mixture of photos, clips from digi cam) with
MovieMaker.
I saved movie to pc first. After viewing it I then saved to a DVD +R.
Attempted to view it off the disc on a pc and a dvd player but with no
success. Where did I go wrong? Anyone have any tips please.

I will try later today to save movie directly onto a DVD +R, rather than
onto pc initially.
 
What authoring software have you used to make the dvd?
To make a dvd you need to save the movie from MM as a dv-avi file to your
pc. Import this into the dvd authoring software, and run through the steps
to make a dvd. This is make the menu, encode the avi file to mpeg and
author as vobs before burning.

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When you say "authoring software" do you mean like NERO??? I'm having a heck
of a time as well. I plug in my camcorder....with firewire
cable...import...make my slides etc then "save to CD" because that is what it
says...CD...I'd like to save to DVD so that I can play in my DVD
player....what do I do from here. I'm sorry not technical here at
all...trying to get my way through this ...any help would be appreciated. I
go into media center...either "my videos" and create a CD/DVD or "create a
CD/DVD" under more programs it lets me do it but will not play in my sony
multiformat DVD player.
 
leen said:
When you say "authoring software" do you mean like
NERO??? I'm having a heck of a time as well. I plug in my
camcorder....with firewire cable...import...make my
slides etc then "save to CD" because that is what it
says...CD...I'd like to save to DVD so that I can play in
my DVD player....what do I do from here. I'm sorry not
technical here at all...trying to get my way through this
...any help would be appreciated. I go into media
center...either "my videos" and create a CD/DVD or
"create a CD/DVD" under more programs it lets me do it
but will not play in my sony multiformat DVD player.
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Maybe these links will get you started:

You mentioned Media Center?
Movie Maker 2 and DVD Burning Software -
Media Center Edition 2005
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-DVD-MCE.html

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

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I have a two hour movie in *.wmv format, from which you cannot directly burn
DVDs. I understand that I can save to dv-avi, but my wo-hr movie will be
about 25 gigabytes, nearly all my available disc space. I am leery about
working with files this big. Regrettable situation, since MM is really good
software. There must be some burning software that handles *.wmv directly?
 
But you do get what you pay for in DVD authoring.
The free options on that list are good ones but I wouldn't recommend them to
a DVD hobbiest.
I would recommend them to somebody that just has a project or two to do and
that's it because why spend the money for something you won't use.
If you plan to do a lot of movies however I would recommend something a
little more high-end that can give you more DVD features and options such as
Ulead's products or something similar.
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