Windows Movie Maker

[squirrel]

Has anyone made a DVD or CD with this program? I am trying to make one with it and can't get it to work in my DVD players. It has burned to the disk and I can watch my Disneyland video on the computer, however I would really like to be able to watch it from a DVD player.

Is there another program that I might have on my computer or I could download for free and use?

 

[10dedfish]

Did you set the options to NTSC? I havent had any problems with it, but there are several that are out there. Most are at least 30$ or so.

10ded

 

[squirrel]

Yes it is set to NTSC. Any other ideas?

 

[poppyolivia]

I only have a cd drive or whatever they are called...I did a movie onto a disc via the pc and they play on the computer but not the dvd players...until we bought a dvd recorder and for some reason it works on that...sorry I don't know why or even if this is the same problem. The dvd player has to have divx ...ok I'm making a fool outta myself but I know what I mean!!!

 

[pjacobi]

Windows Movie Maker cannot make a movie that can be played on a DVD-player. You need to buy another program to "master" the video file produced by Movie Maker to DVD-Video format. The master tool will also allow you to design the start menu that appears when you play the movie in a DVD player. Once the design is complete, it can take several hours to transform the video file into DVD-video format and burn a DVD.

The FULL version of Nero (NOT Nero Express) includes a DVD Mastering tool. There are other program that master DVD-video, but none are free.


-Paul

 

[DueyDooDah]

Windows Movie Maker cannot make a movie that can be played on a DVD-player. ...

Unless you have Windows Vista Ultimate or Vista Home Premium. They include Windows DVD Maker, which Movie Maker uses to author DVDs.

 

[mello]

I've made several little slideshow videos in windows movie maker, and tried forever to get them to work in dvd players. Finally figured out that WMM only makes movies in WMA/V (windows media audio/video) format, and that format only works for windows based machines, so no dvd players. Proprietary formats are a pain in the neck if ya ask me. Anyway, I've searched in vain for a free conversion program, and run into brick walls each time. You might look into the latest version of Sonic (or whoever owns them now), because supposedly it can convert WMA/V to many other formats that can be used by a wider variety of media players. I need to spring for a good program like that too.

 

[Shutterbug]

One more thing to add is to check what type of DVD your dvd player plays
Some players take DVD - R, others take DVD + R
My parents have a problem when they tried to make some DVD's
The burner on their computer only took +R's and their dvd player for the television only played -R's ....oops

 

[squirrel]

Thanks for everyones help!

I have Nero SmartStart. Will that work?