Windows Movie Maker ..HELP!!!
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Windows Movie Maker ..HELP!!!
Anyone use this program? This is the first time ive used it and its pretty cool. I made my movie and watched it thru the program no problems. My problem is that when I copy it to a CD-R it will not play in my CD player, and yes my CD player will play CD, CD-R, CD-RW...etc.. If I take the disc and put it back in my PC, Windows media player will recognize it and play it just fine.
Am I doing something wrong when I download it to the disc? Is there a way to convert it so I am able to copy it to a DVD-R? If I put a DVD in now, it tells me its an invalid format.
BREW
Am I doing something wrong when I download it to the disc? Is there a way to convert it so I am able to copy it to a DVD-R? If I put a DVD in now, it tells me its an invalid format.
BREW
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well, im trying to figure that out, so I put the cd in my PC and open it up, it shows the 2 files on the CD 1) HighMAT 2)my movie
HighMAT shows up on the menu when i put it in my DVD player but its still will not play either the video or the music.
Is it possible to burn it with media player to a dvd?
In the properties of the cd, it says its an audio/video file
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HighMAT shows up on the menu when i put it in my DVD player but its still will not play either the video or the music.
Is it possible to burn it with media player to a dvd?
In the properties of the cd, it says its an audio/video file
BREW
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Read full article on window movie maker and see screen shots of the instructions here.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ovember25.mspx
Burning the DVD
Windows XP does include built-in support for CD burning (see Focus On: CD Burning and Windows XP), so you could burn shorter movies to a CD-ROM. You can also upload short ones to special Web sites and share your movies on the Web. Movie Maker contains the features to perform these tasks, but making a DVD will take a few extra steps.
First, use Movie Maker to save your complete video to a file (on the File menu, click Save Movie) on your computer's hard disk. As shown in Figure 3, it's important that you select the DVI-AV (NTSC) file format, because that will result in the best-quality DVD. Windows Movie Maker automatically detects which standard (NTSC or PAL) your specific DV device uses. If you're in a country that uses the PAL video standard instead of NTSC, you would use the DVI-AV (PAL) format instead. NTSC is common in the US and Japan, while PAL is prevalent in most of Europe.
Next, use the DVD-burning software that came with your computer or DVD burner to import the saved movie file and create your DVD. Most DVD burners come with free software such as Sonic DVDit!, neoDVD, or one of ULead's DVD products. These utilities make it easy to load the Movie Maker file and save it onto a writable DVD. Keep in mind that the process of encoding the movie into a DVD-compatible format can be quite lengthy. My 60-minute vacation video, for example, took well over four hours to encode, and another 30 minutes or so to actually burn onto DVD. After you've created one DVD, you can immediately burn additional copies for friends and family without having to sit through the encode process each time.
My DVD drive came with Sonic DVDit! As shown in Figure 4, I can create a DVD menu that includes a background image and buttons for different chapters of my vacation video. Most DVD packages provide these capabilities, and it's really cool to send the relatives a professional-looking DVD that includes menus and other nifty features.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ovember25.mspx
Burning the DVD
Windows XP does include built-in support for CD burning (see Focus On: CD Burning and Windows XP), so you could burn shorter movies to a CD-ROM. You can also upload short ones to special Web sites and share your movies on the Web. Movie Maker contains the features to perform these tasks, but making a DVD will take a few extra steps.
First, use Movie Maker to save your complete video to a file (on the File menu, click Save Movie) on your computer's hard disk. As shown in Figure 3, it's important that you select the DVI-AV (NTSC) file format, because that will result in the best-quality DVD. Windows Movie Maker automatically detects which standard (NTSC or PAL) your specific DV device uses. If you're in a country that uses the PAL video standard instead of NTSC, you would use the DVI-AV (PAL) format instead. NTSC is common in the US and Japan, while PAL is prevalent in most of Europe.
Next, use the DVD-burning software that came with your computer or DVD burner to import the saved movie file and create your DVD. Most DVD burners come with free software such as Sonic DVDit!, neoDVD, or one of ULead's DVD products. These utilities make it easy to load the Movie Maker file and save it onto a writable DVD. Keep in mind that the process of encoding the movie into a DVD-compatible format can be quite lengthy. My 60-minute vacation video, for example, took well over four hours to encode, and another 30 minutes or so to actually burn onto DVD. After you've created one DVD, you can immediately burn additional copies for friends and family without having to sit through the encode process each time.
My DVD drive came with Sonic DVDit! As shown in Figure 4, I can create a DVD menu that includes a background image and buttons for different chapters of my vacation video. Most DVD packages provide these capabilities, and it's really cool to send the relatives a professional-looking DVD that includes menus and other nifty features.
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anytime I click on properties it only tells me its a windows movie maker project
I did however see when I saved it it was saved as .MSWMM but nowhere else does it say that in the properties or anything.
Or maybe im just retarted
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I did however see when I saved it it was saved as .MSWMM but nowhere else does it say that in the properties or anything.
Or maybe im just retarted
BREW
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Originally Posted by BREWDUDE
anytime I click on properties it only tells me its a windows movie maker project
I did however see when I saved it it was saved as .MSWMM but nowhere else does it say that in the properties or anything.
Or maybe im just retarted
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I did however see when I saved it it was saved as .MSWMM but nowhere else does it say that in the properties or anything.
Or maybe im just retarted
BREW
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ok, I am doing...File...save as...bla bla bla
It is saving it as a .WMV
I just went to the windows site and downloaded all the updates, so now I have to shut down and restart, so I'll be right back...I did however get a nice norton message while downloading the updates that I have a virus and Norton cant fix it...
Man I love computers.....
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It is saving it as a .WMV
I just went to the windows site and downloaded all the updates, so now I have to shut down and restart, so I'll be right back...I did however get a nice norton message while downloading the updates that I have a virus and Norton cant fix it...
Man I love computers.....
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Originally Posted by BREWDUDE
Anyone use this program? This is the first time ive used it and its pretty cool. I made my movie and watched it thru the program no problems. My problem is that when I copy it to a CD-R it will not play in my CD player, and yes my CD player will play CD, CD-R, CD-RW...etc.. If I take the disc and put it back in my PC, Windows media player will recognize it and play it just fine.
Am I doing something wrong when I download it to the disc? Is there a way to convert it so I am able to copy it to a DVD-R? If I put a DVD in now, it tells me its an invalid format.
BREW
Am I doing something wrong when I download it to the disc? Is there a way to convert it so I am able to copy it to a DVD-R? If I put a DVD in now, it tells me its an invalid format.
BREW
I have used Windows Movie Maker and it is very limited in the file formats that you can output. The .wmv extension is only for movies to be played by a media player on your computer. You cannot play a .wmv file on anything but a computer.
To make a movie play on your TV through your DVD player you need to either make a VideoCD (if you only have a CD writer) or make a DVD (if you have a DVD writer on your computer). You will not be able to play a movie through a regular home entertainment CD player unless it also plays DVD's.
I use Pinnacle Studio and create video AVI's , MPEG, streaming movies, DVD's and/or VideoCD's.
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yeh I guess I should've said that it is a dvd player I am trying to play it in. I used a different program the last time I did this and althought that program was very limited in what I could do with my pictures, effects and adding my own music, I was able to copy it to a DVD-R and it worked great in all my dvd players. For whatever reason, Windows Movie Maker will not let me copy this to a DVD....Cheap A$$ Windows, why give me a program to make a movie, and then not support DVD format? It just doesnt make sense to me.
Matt..im gonna see if I can follow the steps on the web site and see if I cant get this thing onto a DVD before I throw it all out the window.
BREW
Matt..im gonna see if I can follow the steps on the web site and see if I cant get this thing onto a DVD before I throw it all out the window.
BREW
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When you save the file through Windows Movie Maker, it saves the file as a .wmv (Windows Media Video). This format is only recognized by windows media player. Because a CD or DVD player accepts CD's, CD-R's, CD-RW's, DVD-R's etc. that doesn't mean that it will play the type of files saved. For instance, your newer car stereo's will play .mp3 and .wav files... .wmv is an extension it does not recognize, thus will not play it.
Some DVD players will accept this format. First, save the moive to your computer, not as a project but as an actual production. To do this select File, then "Save Movie File". Save it to "My Computer" (it will allow you to select which folder). After you have saved the file to your computer, open the program you use to burn files, and burn the movie to your CD-R as a piece of data, not a song or movie. Then try it in your DVD player. If it doesn't read it, your DVD player does not recognize that extension.
Some DVD players will accept this format. First, save the moive to your computer, not as a project but as an actual production. To do this select File, then "Save Movie File". Save it to "My Computer" (it will allow you to select which folder). After you have saved the file to your computer, open the program you use to burn files, and burn the movie to your CD-R as a piece of data, not a song or movie. Then try it in your DVD player. If it doesn't read it, your DVD player does not recognize that extension.