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zetec

posted on 8/2/05 at 07:57 PM Reply With Quote
Burning DVD.

Grrrr, building a car was far easier than getting my camcorder stuff onto a DVD!

I started by downloading from my camcorder, miniDV, to my hard drive using Windows Movie Maker. Was easy, as was adding a title and some music.

Then come the tricky bit, getting it onto a playable DVD. I tried to use the burn CD option on the Windows Movie Maker, and I guess thats what I'm doing wrong, there is no option to burn DVD. When done there is nothing on the disc to play although the disc says now it is full. Do I need additional software to burn a DVD? I've got a pile of both DVD-R and DVD+R, but at the rate I'm going there won't be any left soon!

Thanks in advance for any help...

[Edited on 8/2/05 by zetec]





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richijenkin

posted on 8/2/05 at 08:00 PM Reply With Quote
windows moviemaker only burns on to cd not dvd. save yr moviemaker video as avi and import it into Ulead movie 7. then burn it on to dvd






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flak monkey

posted on 8/2/05 at 08:02 PM Reply With Quote
You need some DVD creation software such as Sonic MyDVD. Or similar. Then you need a burner capable of writing to DVD, like Nero 6.

The problem you have at the moment is that you are probably burning plain mpg or avi files onto the disc. This is not a DVD, just a data disc.

A dvd root contains 2 folders, one called Video_TS the other Audio_TS. In these folders are IFO and VOB files. These are the actual DVD-ROM file formats that a normal DVD player recognises.

Unfortunately the only way to create them is with special software. You can download various free IFO/VOB creators, that convert AVIs to DVD format. You still need software capable of burning the DVD though...

The best all in one pakage is called Pinnacle Studio (various different ones). Its expensive though, and probably not worth buying if you dont do a lot of video editing.

Cheers,
David





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antonyg

posted on 8/2/05 at 08:11 PM Reply With Quote
burning dvd

I had same problem and went on a website called download.com and dowloaded some software called DVD Santa it converts avi to DVD and is quite simpleto use (even i managed it ) you can download a free trial or buy the software for about £17 i think
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Peteff

posted on 8/2/05 at 08:37 PM Reply With Quote
Get a couple of rewritable disks and use them to test burn to. I do and they wipe and reuse o.k. You can copy them to a dvd disk if they work o.k. or write over them if they don't.





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britishtrident

posted on 8/2/05 at 09:02 PM Reply With Quote
Try a a Google for DVD burn GPL
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zilspeed

posted on 8/2/05 at 09:17 PM Reply With Quote
I second the DVD Santa recommendation.






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Avoneer

posted on 8/2/05 at 11:06 PM Reply With Quote
Or Nero...
I like that one, but it won't create - only burns, but will burn baby burn everything...
Pat...





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britishtrident

posted on 9/2/05 at 08:46 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Avoneer
Or Nero...
I like that one, but it won't create - only burns, but will burn baby burn everything...
Pat...


Nero isn't up to much for burning bootable Linux ISOs too picky about file extensions.

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