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Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 26 Jul 2003 06:53 PM |
Turn your Movie Maker 2 video into a DVD
Here are the steps involved in creating your own DVD ... it's not too hard if you use the right software. Making Movie Maker DVD's
Back-up your video to CD
Why you should avoid Movie Maker's built-in CD wizard. Movie Makers CD wizard Thanks to the Mighty Coach for the information.
Here is a how to .PDF guide(Make sure you have Adobe Acrobat reader) on making a DVD using Sonic MyDVD and Windows Movie Maker. http://www.sonic.com/pdf/WMM_MyDVD_fin_pa.pdf
Sonic MyDVD 5.0 can be purchased online from here: MyDVD from Sonic, Download and buy online
I recommend using Sonic MyDVD since it easily reads .wmv Movie Maker files.
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 Stacy
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 02 Nov 2003 08:08 PM |
| I am new to movie maker. I have made my movie and would like to burn to a Dvd. If I am reading right first I have to buy a DVD burner? Then buy the software? If I burn to a cd-r will it work? |
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Barb
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Will
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 21 Nov 2003 06:36 PM |
| If you want to burn to a CD-R then you need to make a VCD. I searched the forums and found this nice thread. Making VCD's |
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timmo567
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 06 Mar 2004 09:03 PM |
Nero is very good for burning VCD's
Nice and easy... :) |
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Poohbear
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 21 Jun 2004 07:36 PM |
WHen burning to CD, your not limited to VCDs.
Most DVD players will play non-standard formats like CVD, SVCDs, KVCDs, ISO-MPG, and even DVDs on a CD.
Being non-standard, it limits its usefullness, since fewer DVD players can play it, but its an easy to expand your options.
But, I make LOTS of home movies (I have kids), and CD-Rs are still currently MUCH cheaper then DVD-Rs, and I rarely need the space a DVD has...
So, I'll encode my MM2 movie to a DVD-spec MPEG2 using the Tsunami encoder.
Then I author it as a DVD using DVD-Author. Then I burn with Nero.
I get DVD quality home movies on a CD (but only 30 minutes).
-Nick |
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 17 Jul 2004 08:53 PM |
Can you walk S-L-O-W-L-Y through the steps you use to make a movie on a CD. I've got the MM2 part going well. An I know how to save the movie to the different types. But what is Tsunami and how does that work. And who is Nero?
I'm fooling around with making slide shows for the grandparents. I doubt I could get anyone to sit through 30 minutes of my video, so like you the DVD capcity is wasted. However, I do want the best quality I can get.
I've shot about 8 years of Hi-8mm video, and a bathtub full of stills of the kids.
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 17 Jul 2004 11:14 PM |
DVD Movie making generally involves these 5 steps:
1. Capturing from video camera to harddisk
2. Editing the movie
3. Encoding to MPEG2
4. Authoring (creating chapters and menus)
5. Buring to disk.
Each step requires a different type of software. Some software suites cover more than one of these five steps, however for professional looking results you may need a dedicated software for each step. Windows Movie Maker does a good job of step 1 and 2. For the rest of the three steps:
For encoding: Tsunami Encoder = TMPGenc = http://www.tmpgenc.net which is a very good quality but cheap MPEG1 and MPEG2 encoder. For MPEG1 encoding it is completely free as well. You need MPEG2 encoding though for DVDs. Note that this (step 3) is most critical as it involves a format conversion which has most potential for incurring quality loss if not done with due care.
For authoring: My favorite is DVD Lab. Other softwares include TmpGenc DVD Author, Nero vision Express and many others.
Nero are generally known for their CD burning software and the name is actually used a synonym for that software. However this step is not that critical as any CD/DVD burning software will do the job once everyhting is ready to burn. many Authoring software can do this step too.
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www.rehanfx.org - do more with Windows Movie Maker...
rehanfx.x10hosting.com - mirror site |
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 21 Jul 2004 12:16 AM |
So what do you recommend to capture the analog video into digital? I mean the actual physical hardware that is necessary. It seems every forum has a success story and a corresponding horror story for nearly every capture card or "box" that's made. PapaJohn's website lists many make and models, and it seems everyone has had problems. PapJohn's personal experience with the Dazzle card seems encouraging.
I have a Pentium 4, at 2.4Ghz, 256 Meg RAM running XP Professional. There are numerous USB ports, and a smaller port that looks like a shrunken USB port on the front. The sound card also has another port that looks a little bit like a USB port, but no quite.
Help. I really want to spend my money wisely, and hopefully avod some of the frustration of getting the wrong stuff. |
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 01 Aug 2004 02:33 AM |
CSFlanagan:
Those "weird" looking ports that seema bit like a USB are what's known as a firewire port, or an IEEE 1394 port-hub. These are used to attach a digital camoder- camera to your computer. They download data VERY fast...a slow rate for a firewire cable is 400 megs per second!
To see if your computer has a firewire port go:
1- Out to desktop and clsoe all other programs
2- Right click on the "MY COMPUTER" symbol
3- select PROPERTIES
4- Now select HARDWARE from the tabs you'll see
5- Select DEVICE MANAGER
6- You'll see all sort of things listed, but on my list, about 1/2 way down the list it says: IEEE 1394 BUS HOST CONTROLLERS
7- Click the + by that wording an see what you find!
* For a great analog to digital converter, check out the CANOPUS ADVC 100...its about $260-$270 brand -shipped from www.newegg.com In my opinion, nothing beats a Canopus for analog to digital conversion. They don't drop frame rate and they keep the audio and video in perfect harmony *
USB is not nearly as good as some make it sound, unl;ess its USB 2. Which I don't have on my machine.
Using firewire is the way to go...they usually don't drop any frame rate and are super fast, which is very handy when your average DVD can be 4.7 GIGS...
My Soundcard (Creative Audigy 2) has a firewire port on it too, but I also have one on the front of my computer as well.
If you don't have a FIREWIRE cable, go to EBay and type "firewire" in the Search area...a good one, shipped and all is about $8, but over $20 in a retail store.
Your computer is a little faster than mine on processor speed, but I have the same OS and RAM, so I have an idea what you have to work with.
Good Luck!
Todd
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 10 Aug 2004 09:55 PM |
Thanks for the info. I found out I do have a firewire port. And I'm pretty sure I have USB2.
The Canopus ADVC sounds a little pricey to just get analog into the computer. $260 is a good step towards a digital camcorder. I've seen other forum posts that suggest some digital cameras have the capabiltity to input from an analog camcorder, then output to digital. Seems the $260 might be better spent on a digital camcorder. Are there other featuers of the Canopus?
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Musicman
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 04:12 AM |
I downloaded the Tsunami Encoder as recommended by you on the forum, but on my first conversion from AVI to MPEG2, the quality was not too good, on moving images, the pixelation occurred.
Could you advsie me on the correct settings to obtain a good encode for quality.
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 26 Oct 2004 06:15 PM |
Configuring an encoder to obtain really good quality output requires a lot of practice and experience. So get ready for alot of reading and experimentation. However if you want a straightforward conversion then the general formula is more bitrate would give you more quality. However this also takes more space.
But there are various smart tricks one can employ with a tool like TMPGenc to allow multipass VBR or Quality based encoding which gives good quality while preserving space. Also some parameters depend on knowing the preprties of source material: interlaced, progressive, non-square pixels, RGB or YUV colorspace etc...
www.videohelp.com is the place to go for more study. |
www.rehanfx.org - do more with Windows Movie Maker...
rehanfx.x10hosting.com - mirror site |
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ren
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 11:25 AM |
Hey.
I really need some help. I've got Vista and the Windows Movie Maker that comes automatically with it. I've been making and saving videos using that WMM since last December and its always worked perfectly.
I've been making a video over the last two days, and when i try and save it, windows movie maker freezes and then closes. I've never had this problem before. I am using fonts which i downloaded so i tried changing them to standard WMM fonts but it still didnt save. I tried saving it without the audio to see if that was the problem but that still didnt do anything. I then took most of the video away leaving the first minute and the audio, that didnt save. I then tried the video WITHOUT the first minute, and it still didnt save! I then imported two of my old videos and tried to save them, and that worked fine, so i know its not the length of the video. I've got Rehanfx effects but i've saved them without any problems before.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, i need this video for next week!
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jkalen71
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| Joined: 02 Nov 2009 |
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Re: Making A Movie Maker DVD and CD's
Posted: 02 Nov 2009 07:35 PM |
| I made a DVD for my business, does WMM have a copy protect on it so no one can copy my DVD? if so, can you tell me how? Thanks. |
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