Windows Movie Maker, Help Please

geminibabe

Good evening, i am trying to put my wedding video on to DVD and have uploaded it from my handycam to PC. I have put it into Windows Movie maker and created the film but the system will not let me burn to DVD.

I can publish to the PC and burn onto DVD as a Windows media file but this will only play on a pc and not a DVD player.

When i try and publish to a Recordable DVD it will not see the DVD (only see's CD-R

Can anyone please help

Many thanks

dogmaryxx

Download DVDflick and burn your Dvd.

It's free.

http://www.dvdflick.net/index.php

tronator

geminibabe wrote: »

Good evening, i am trying to put my wedding video on to DVD and have uploaded it from my handycam to PC. I have put it into Windows Movie maker and created the film but the system will not let me burn to DVD.

I can publish to the PC and burn onto DVD as a Windows media file but this will only play on a pc and not a DVD player.

When i try and publish to a Recordable DVD it will not see the DVD (only see's CD-R

Can anyone please help

Many thanks

As somebody else wrote today in another thread, Movie Maker is useless. It only supports their own proprietary format.

What camera is it? It might already record in the needed MPEG-2 format. So creating a DVD could be done without re-encoding and therefore not losing quality.

People recommended in this forum DVD Flick as good and easy to use. I never used it so I can't say more about it.

sassi

while WMM may not be most peoples choice, i expect that the OP has used transitions and effects in WMM and they like the work they have done...

Its only the home premium windows versions that let you burn to dvd - my laptop (vista home premium) has the dvd option but my pc (vista basic) does not.

there are options but as said by others, you will lose resolution (it will not look as good) whenever you convert/compress video files.

i recently told a friend to burn as a video cd - it is played just like a dvd on her dvd player. but hers was a small file, it would have to compress a long film too much to make it fit on a cd.

if you want to put your creation on dvd follow these 2 steps:

1) in windows movie maker open your file and click 'save to my computer'
Windows Movie Maker will ask you to enter a file name for your movie and choose a folder to save your movie. The movie will be saved as a WMV file in the PC

2)use dvdflick (mentioned above) to get it from wmv to dvd
http://www.dvdflick.net/

it may be easier if you follow this
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/burn-wmv-to-dvd/

penrhyn

Prior to Winows 7, Windows Movie Maker did not have the ability to burn DVDs. Bill thought you just needed to publish to a PC.
The idea then was to do the edit , save the file as AVI, WMV or what ever and then use a third party burner like, Sonic.
All a bit poor, as has been pointed out above it was also very picky about the files it would accept.

FYI, With Windows 7, you have to go on line and download Windows live Movie maker as its not on the distribution disks (dunno about systems bought with W7).

sassi

penrhyn wrote: »

Prior to Winows 7, Windows Movie Maker did not have the ability to burn DVDs. Bill thought you just needed to publish to a PC.
The idea then was to do the edit , save the file as AVI, WMV or what ever and then use a third party burner like, Sonic.
All a bit poor, as has been pointed out above it was also very picky about the files it would accept.

FYI, With Windows 7, you have to go on line and download Windows live Movie maker as its not on the distribution disks (dunno about systems bought with W7).

it did, in vista, but not vista basic i have it,
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Publish-a-movie-in-Windows-Movie-Maker


To publish and burn a movie to a DVD

To publish and burn a movie to a DVD, you must have Windows DVD Maker, which is included in Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Home Premium. You also need a DVD burner.

1. Insert a blank recordable or rewritable DVD into your DVD burner.
2. Open a project in Windows Movie Maker.
3. Click File, and then click Publish Movie.
4. Click DVD, and then click Next. Windows DVD Maker opens.
5. Complete the steps to create a DVD using Windows DVD Maker.

tronator

sassi wrote: »

To publish and burn a movie to a DVD

To publish and burn a movie to a DVD, you must have Windows DVD Maker, which is included in Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Home Premium. You also need a DVD burner.

1. Insert a blank recordable or rewritable DVD into your DVD burner.
2. Open a project in Windows Movie Maker.
3. Click File, and then click Publish Movie.
4. Click DVD, and then click Next. Windows DVD Maker opens.
5. Complete the steps to create a DVD using Windows DVD Maker.

In your link there is not a single time mentioned the word "Video-DVD". There is a big difference between burning a *.wmv on a DVD and creating a Video-DVD. The latter is what the OP wants to do.

Mobeer

tronator wrote: »

In your link there is not a single time mentioned the word "Video-DVD". There is a big difference between burning a *.wmv on a DVD and creating a Video-DVD. The latter is what the OP wants to to.

Windows DVD Maker does make DVDs that play on ordinary (separate) DVD players.

sassi

tronator wrote: »

In your link there is not a single time mentioned the word "Video-DVD". There is a big difference between burning a *.wmv on a DVD and creating a Video-DVD. The latter is what the OP wants to to.

if you burn a DVD in windows DVD maker it IS a regular DVD that can be played on a DVD player - didn't think i needed to point this out....as i mentioned i had used it/done it on my laptop...:(

penrhyn

Thanks for pointing out that Vista had DVD burner, it had slipped my memory as I'd moved on to W7.

"My new laptop has windows 7, its more user friendly than Windows Vista, I don't like it."
Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory)

tronator

sassi wrote: »

if you burn a DVD in windows DVD maker it IS a regular DVD that can be played on a DVD player - didn't think i needed to point this out....as i mentioned i had used it/done it on my laptop...:(

In my defense I thought we're still talking about Movie Maker Didn't read tour post carefully enough and didn't notice that you were talking about DVD maker.

On the other hand MS was not known for obeying standards in the past, rather for creating their own "standards"...

Out of interest, does DVD Maker encode an existing MPEG-2 to wmv before creating the DVD?