Outputting to a DVD Recorder

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I have created a movie and would like to output it to my dvd recorder. Not sure how to proceed.

Advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!
 
Thank you for such a timely response!!

I saved it as a DV-AVI file (on my hard drive) and then tried to output it to my Philips DVDR75 (external) DVD recorder/player

I tried it through my PYRO A/V Link Converter, through s-video and 1394 - neither worked. Then I tried it without the converter. Still no luck

Any thoughts?
 
You need to be using DVD authoring software.... part of the process is to
turn the DV-AVI files into MPEG2. It can't go directly to the disc.

See the DVD section of my website for some software and comments about it
that people are using.
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Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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bunnykenn said:
Thank you for such a timely response!!!

I saved it as a DV-AVI file (on my hard drive) and then tried to output it
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to my Philips DVDR75 (external) DVD recorder/player.
I tried it through my PYRO A/V Link Converter, through s-video and 1394 -
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neither worked. Then I tried it without the converter. Still no luck.
 
Most people use a computer type DVD burner that is attached to the computer
via IDE, SCSI, USB2 or Firewire, but you are talking about a standalone
consumer DVD recorder. You better read the manual to see if it can be used
as a PC DVD drive. From what little reading I did on it it seems like you
will want to treat it live a DV camcorder via 1394.

bunnykenn said:
Thank you for such a timely response!!!

I saved it as a DV-AVI file (on my hard drive) and then tried to output it
Click to expand...
to my Philips DVDR75 (external) DVD recorder/player.
I tried it through my PYRO A/V Link Converter, through s-video and 1394 -
Click to expand...
neither worked. Then I tried it without the converter. Still no luck.
 
Funny you should have this string going. I spent over two hours yesterday doing the same thing, trying to go from WMM2 to my philips dvdr 75. I found the following, I connected my computer to the dvdr via firewire; the computer recognized the dv device and seemed to be fine. In WMM2, I 'saved to DV' and an extremely slow process started whereby the program 'created and recorded' the movie. If you have the disc cued up where you want it and the input set to CAM2, you should be able to record.

However, I had a few glitches which is why I am here today.

First, the computer seems unable to trigger the record feature on its own. You will have no signal on CAM2 while the movie is being created, but when it starts to 'record' the signal is sent to the DV. You need to manually press the record button on the DVDR so it knows to start recording the signal coming through. It is helpful to put a blank frame of about 10 seconds at the start of your movie to make up for the slow start up speed of the DVDR

Second, and still unresolved, for some reason my recording went in PAL format rather than NTSC (which is what my WMM2 settings were in). Additionally, the recorded signal is black and white while the original is full color. I need help fixing the color thing - the PAL is fine because the DVDR can still play it. But I would like to be able to record in color. Any suggestions? Are the PAL setting and the color issue related? Also, this is the first time I am using a Sony DVD+R disc (new box) can the disk carry a PAL setting or a setting to make things black and white? That doesn't seem logical but it is a variable in the system

Please help

----- bunnykenn wrote: ----

Thank you for such a timely response!!

I saved it as a DV-AVI file (on my hard drive) and then tried to output it to my Philips DVDR75 (external) DVD recorder/player

I tried it through my PYRO A/V Link Converter, through s-video and 1394 - neither worked. Then I tried it without the converter. Still no luck

Any thoughts?
 
Michael, your post was not relevant to the question presented. If you read the reminder of the thread Bunnykenn and I are both trying to burn to a DVD Recorder (made by Philips, similar to a VCR) rather than a DVD drive. Unless I misunderstood the material presented by the company MS is promoting, it requires a DVD burning drive connected to your computer. The Philips machine is recognized my Windows XP as a DV device rather than as a drive. Unless there is a way to configure it as a drive, the program is useless unless we buy more hardware. I believe the question presented was specifically how to use the WMM2 'export to DV feature' to export the movie to our DVD Recorder that is recognized as a DV Device

As additional information to Bunnykenn and related to my earlier post, Philips suggested that the black and white recording (which was the only problem I had left) was due to somehow recording in PAL even though WMM2 was set to export in NTSC. They suggested doing a hard reset to ensure the problem wasn't with their hardware or software. I haven't tried yet, but if that doesn't work it can only be problem with WMM2 (or the DVD disc itself or the firewire cable, neither of which seem likely), which hopefully an uninstall/reinstall will correct. If not that, then I think there must be a bug in WMM2 worthy of an update.

But I am a novice at computers so I would appreciate any input from the experts that seem to frequent this page

----- Michael Patten [MS] wrote: ----

See the following link for additional information on DVD burning

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker/learnmore/dvdburn.as

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

Michae
 
I would agree with the Philips assessment regarding your color issue...NTSC
output to a PAL enabled device will always present as B/W. Somewhere, there
is probably a Region specific bit-setting being overlooked; NTSC implies
Region 1 specific encoding; your source content, encoder, or standalone
recorder may be incorrectly set for a Region that supports PAL.

--
Digger

diego said:
Michael, your post was not relevant to the question presented. If you
read the reminder of the thread Bunnykenn and I are both trying to burn to
a DVD Recorder (made by Philips, similar to a VCR) rather than a DVD
drive. Unless I misunderstood the material presented by the company MS is
promoting, it requires a DVD burning drive connected to your computer.
The Philips machine is recognized my Windows XP as a DV device rather than
as a drive. Unless there is a way to configure it as a drive, the program
is useless unless we buy more hardware. I believe the question presented
was specifically how to use the WMM2 'export to DV feature' to export the
movie to our DVD Recorder that is recognized as a DV Device.

As additional information to Bunnykenn and related to my earlier post,
Philips suggested that the black and white recording (which was the only
problem I had left) was due to somehow recording in PAL even though WMM2
was set to export in NTSC. They suggested doing a hard reset to ensure
the problem wasn't with their hardware or software. I haven't tried yet,
but if that doesn't work it can only be problem with WMM2 (or the DVD disc
itself or the firewire cable, neither of which seem likely), which
hopefully an uninstall/reinstall will correct. If not that, then I think
there must be a bug in WMM2 worthy of an update.

But I am a novice at computers so I would appreciate any input from the
experts that seem to frequent this page.

----- Michael Patten [MS] wrote: -----

See the following link for additional information on DVD burning.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/moviemaker/learnmore/dvdburn.asp

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

Michael

bunnykenn said:
I have created a movie and would like to output it to my dvd
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recorder.
Not sure how to proceed.
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