Using windows movie maker to burn dvd's

[Chemical_Ali]

Hi,

i just downloaded my bro's wedding tape from my sony DV-video camrea to my PC on ''Windows Movies Maker'' and now i wanna put it on a DVD disc but i dont have clue on how to do it. all i know is its a Windows Media Audio/Video file and i need to convert it to Mpeg2 i believe in order make it work on a DVD player, is this correct?

anyone know how to do it? pls help!!!

[Funkstar]

Never used Movie Maker, primarily because it doesn't look like you can output to DVD, and i think you are limited to using Windows Media files.

Do you have Nero? or can you get Nero?

Nero Vision Express will be able to do this for you and is pretty easy to use. One big advantage of Vision is that it can capture in raw DV encoded AVI files, this means you do not loose any quality in the capture or any edits. Only when it is encoded to MPEG-2 do you loose quality (although depending on bitrate you probably won't notice this).

[Chemical_Ali]

ah thanks funkstar i just downloaded the nero 7 ultra demo and i got 30 days to do this untill the trial runs out! once again thanks!

[JimNastics]

You really want to think about re-transferring it from the camcorder as a raw DV AVI like Funkstar said, then encoding that into a DVD mpeg2. It'll be far superior quality than a wmv -> mpeg conversion :/

[Chemical_Ali]

ya i just realised, the qualities not very good so im gonna go through the whole process again,

jeez i thought it'll only take 5 minutes like burning music, its such a long process and i got 5 tapes to do!

thanks again

[Funkstar]

bear in mind that capturing from DV to AVI should generate a 14gig AVI file. So make sure you have enough free space. A NTFS drive would be recomended so it can cope with files that large - FAT32 is limited to 4gig. Nero has the option to split at 4gig though i think, and will probably ask you before you start.

jeez i thought it'll only take 5 minutes like burning music

Not quite we are talking about many many times more data than with audio after all. Also any compression is going to be far more complex, hence slower, even for the same amount of data