Transferring digital pics to DVD

Tickdick00

Can anyone recommend a good (inexpensive) program to transfer digital photos to DVD with music, effects etc?

Thanks for your help

TinyPablo

I use Windows Movie Maker which came with my laptop. It's fairly standard but I find it really easy to use and I have made a few DVD's that I was really pleased with.

Tickdick00

I have Movie Maker but it doesn't seem to allow me to burn DVDs. Have I got an old version or is there any other program that will allow me to do this?

Thanks

Steve-o

Nero is a pretty much all-singing-all-dancing piece of software that handles that (amongst a host of other things).

[Deleted User]

How about:

http://www.download.com/Pinnacle-Video-Spin/3000-13631_4-10747819.html
http://www.download.com/DebugMode-Wax/3000-13631_4-10413349.html
http://www.download.com/Sothink-Movie-DVD-Maker/3000-13631_4-10669082.html

There's a couple more but they're limited to 30 days trials until you pay:

http://www.download.com/Corel-VideoStudio-Pro/3000-13631_4-10029706.html
http://www.download.com/Magix-Movie-Edit-Pro/3000-13631_4-10476357.html

scheming_gypsy

Tickdick00 wrote: »

I have Movie Maker but it doesn't seem to allow me to burn DVDs. Have I got an old version or is there any other program that will allow me to do this?

Thanks

you won't need Movie Maker to burn to DVD.
Create the movie as normal in Movie Maker and save it to where you want it. Then right click the file and 'send to', choose your DVD writer drive and then a pop up box should appear on your windows toolbar telling you that you have files ready to be written to DVD. Click it and it should take you to your My Computer where you can write the files to disk. Just make sure you click the options and change the writing format to run the DVD on other devices.

roddydogs

Digital Photos, not Movies, can u still use movie maker for this?

scheming_gypsy

just to copy photos onto a DVD?

nope, highlight them all, right click and then do the send to as mentioned above.

coolagarry

I use Ashampoo Burning Studio 8. I recently attended a school performance by my grandson and took some video and pics.
After dragging the video and pics onto my hard drive I opened Burning Studio 8 and dragged the video into the window. Clicked on slideshow and dragged the pics into another window. Clicked on background music and scrolled to 'simply the best' and clicked on that. Then I changed the title to 'Our Thesbian' and clicked on 'next' a few times until it burned the dvd.
The result was a dvd with opening graphics entitled 'Our Thespian' with the option to 'play' or 'browse'. When I pressed play it showed the videos followed by the pics which opened and closed in mumerous ways playing simply the best in the background. Looked really good!!

Ashampoo Burning 8 is priced at about $50 but you can download it and get a free key for a limited period. When the free key runs out they offer you the full one. After you have ignored the emails a few times they offer it for about £9. It's well worth that.

Incidentally it does all kinds of other things as well like converting .avi or divX files to dvd

darrenforster99

You can use Movie Maker to make the video. Then after creating it if you chose Publish Movie... from the File menu in Vista's edition of Movie Maker it gives you the option to publish to DVD using Windows DVD Maker.

If you send it to the DVD or copy the pictures over to the DVD you will end up with a DVD full of pictures that can only be viewed on certain DVD players and all computers with a DVD drive. Quite a lot of DVD players will only accept movies in VOB format (DVD format).

If you just send the pictures straight to the disc you'll only end up with a disc that has pictures on it that can be viewed only on computers, and DVD players with a picture show function. Also Xbox 360's and PS3's can also show pictures from these discs.

If you don't use Vista I don't think XP has Windows DVD maker built in, so you will need something like Nero to turn it into DVD format after you've created the movie.