I WANT TO SAVE MY MOVIE TO DVD. I HAVE A DVD WRITER

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sarah champion

I have recorded a homemovie of my kids on my canon
digital video camera and edited and added music etc using
windows movie maker 2. I now want to copy it onto DVD
and send it to my family in the UK (I am in New
Zealand). When I try to burn it onto my DVD Writer (LG B
GOLD 5) my burning software tells me I need a MPEG1 file
not a WMV file which my video is in. Do I have to buy
more software or is there any free on the net to convert
it? Why doesnt Movie Maker 2 convert it or does it and I
havent realised? Any help would be appreciated as this
is driving me mad. What I thought would be a 5 min job
has turned into weeks!

Sarah
 
There's a choice in MM2 to save it to a DV-AVI file instead of a WMV file
(in the pick list of Others). Your DVD software should then be able to use
it.

PapaJohn
 
You're trying to create a playable DVD using files created directly from MM2
and you can't. What software are you using to try to create your movie? Papa
John may have the solution for you. the file ending in WMV is proprietary to
Microsoft and not many DVD authorizing software packages will use and
convert that format. Once the file is converted to AVI, most of your DVD
authorizing software packages will convert that. You may be use one that
does not do resampling, in which case you might have to import your MM2 file
into another program and let it convert the file for you.
Carol
 
Sarah,

It depends if your family in the UK has a Windows computer, then you just
need to copy the WMV file to the DVD as a data file, and they can view it on
the computer.

If you want them to play it on their PAL DVD player then that is another
story entirely. You need DVD authoring software and you will probably have
to have it create PAL compatible video. Also not all DVD players play
DVD+/-RW so send them a DVD+/-R. http://www.dvdrhelp.com/ has DVD player
compatibility charts (http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers)

The most inexpensive products that I have had good luck with are at
www.ulead.com.

Jose
 
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