Rehan
Fri Oct 08 06:39:43 CDT 2004
Before you make a purchase you can try converting the DV AVI produced by
Movie Maker to the other type using Canopus Converter:
http://www.canopus.us/US/products/DV_file_converter/pm_dv_file_converter.asp
--
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for movie maker
"Lydiamc" <Lydiamc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:33F3DA8A-F121-48AB-9E79-57B6D0F8315E@microsoft.com...
> BTW Sony replied that it's Microsoft's fault because they use a different
> encoding; and no they don't support DV-AVI....yet I was able to open the
> Moviemaker file in other application. So I'm still stuck. Have to buy
> another software to do this.
>
> "Lydia" wrote:
>
>> thanks. I didn't see this; I went through their 'troubleshooting' and it
>> came up with the message that it was NOT supported. Very strange. I'll
>> check with Sony why I got everything BUT the sound -- the video portion
>> was
>> fine so maybe that's what they're referring to -- you can transfer the
>> picture but not the sound.
>>
>> "Rehan" wrote:
>>
>> > > I tried it with Sony's
>> > > CLICK TO DVD but only to find, this after some 3 days of solid
>> > > working on
>> > > the
>> > > project, that Sony doesn't support DVI-AV. I'm kind of sick of
>> > > getting
>> > > software that doesn't 'finish' the job the way you like.
>> >
>> > Lydia,
>> >
>> > According to VAIOs website Click to DVD supports DV AVI:
>> >
http://www.vaio.net/sonyvaio421.html
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rehan
>> > www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Lydia" <Lydia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:E90B2505-E2F6-435E-9327-5343ECD81641@microsoft.com...
>> > > Amazing, but Movie Maker does't support burning to DVD. There is an
>> > > article
>> > > on the site saying to save Movie (file menu) as a DVI-AV and then
>> > > use
>> > > your
>> > > dvd burning software to burn the saved .avi file. I tried it with
>> > > Sony's
>> > > CLICK TO DVD but only to find, this after some 3 days of solid
>> > > working on
>> > > the
>> > > project, that Sony doesn't support DVI-AV. I'm kind of sick of
>> > > getting
>> > > software that doesn't 'finish' the job the way you like.
>> > >
>> > > As to CD problem -- I had the same but because I didn't set the drive
>> > > to
>> > > the
>> > > one where I had enough space to put the file before it goes to CD.
>> > > Then
>> > > when
>> > > it went to copy to CD, only to find the file was too large. You
>> > > can't
>> > > really
>> > > fit much video on a CD -- so why have an outdated program in Windows
>> > > XP?
>> > > Duh!
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > "Hannah" wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> I have a couple of questions:
>> > >> 1) when i put in a cd and try to burn it, the program
>> > >> closes with an error. any idea why?
>> > >> 1) can you save movie maker movies to DVD or just CD?
>> > >> 2) is there any way to convert them to mpg files? it would
>> > >> make life a whole lot easier!
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks
>> > >>
>> >
>> >
>> >