Help! Need to make a DVD for Under 5s

angelavdavis

Hi,

I am trying to produce a DVD for siblings aged 3 and 4 featuring our family so it can be played as part of adoption preparation.

So, I have produced a 7 minute long video in MS Movie Maker on XP sp 3 (with 4 Gb RAM and plenty of HDD). It consists of less than 5 minutes of actual video (less than 60Mb total), 9 jpg images sandwiched in between the videos (less than 18Mb total), accompanied by very low tech music (less than 2Mb total). Total MS Movie comp file is 263Kb. I don't think Spielberg has anything to worry about lol!

I selected the save movie... and have left it since 8pm tonight and it is currently saying it still has 87000+ minutes left to save!

I had previously tried using my historically reliable Lumiere programme but it just doesn't accept the latest version of AVI files (specifically the audio) when I import my digital video files, so I had to go for MS MM.

Any idea what the problem could be or alternatively any alternative free products out there that you guys can recommend? I closed other programmes running to leave as much RAM as possible and will leave it running overnight but I am not holding out much hope to be honest.... Thanks

angelavdavis

For anyone else who might come across this problem in future, I have found that it was caused by the fact the programme had every single compatibility checkbox selected in Tools, Options Advanced settings. By removing ones I thought were unnecessary, I have found it saves in a more realistic 6 minutes!

debitcardmayhem

angelavdavis wrote: »

For anyone else who might come across this problem in future, I have found that it was caused by the fact the programme had every single compatibility checkbox selected in Tools, Options Advanced settings. By removing ones I thought were unnecessary, I have found it saves in a more realistic 6 minutes!

Nice of you to share that , it may save someone later.