saving to DVD

Hi,
I have a 270 picture/title movie that I am trying to save to DVD using
Sonic My DVD. The only format it lets me save the whole thing in is broadband
and then the quality is really poor. How do I save this in DV AVI? I have the
whole thing perfectly timed to the music so I don't want to mess that up. I
saw a post that said you can save multiple copies of the project file and
edit each one so that it represents one section of the final video but I
don't understand what you are supposed to do after that. If you could explain
this in really basic terms I would appreciate it. I am no computer expert.
Thank you!

dickmr
Tue Mar 22 19:55:04 CST 2005

I don't know if i quite follow you Jenbob, but here is what I would do.
I assume you have the movie already on your hard drive. If you import it
back into (or 1st time) Windows Movie Maker, you should then drag it down
to the 'timeline'. You should be able to preview the 'movie' just to see
that
it plays.... Then, you can choose 'save to my computer'.....that will
bring up a
screen that allows you to first NAME your movie, and then select the location
where you want to SAVE your movie. Clicking 'next' will bring you to the
setting
screen which allows you to pick the format/size/quality of your
movie....fill in the
CIRCLE next to the words 'other settings'.....then on the pull down menu you
can choose to save your movie in DV-AVI format. It is about the fifteen
choice
down the list. When you choose that, you can also look at the bottom of that
screen and see the approximate size of your movie, and that it will be saved
in
720x480 pixels which is the best choice for later putting your movie on DVD.
Of
course, the quality will not improve if your movie was already of much lesser
quality already.

You should then be able to use your Sonic program to make your DVD with a new
DV-AVI originally formatted movie. I don't know why it wouldn't have
authored
your DVD from whatever format it was in before though.



"Jenbob" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a 270 picture/title movie that I am trying to save to DVD using
> Sonic My DVD. The only format it lets me save the whole thing in is broadband
> and then the quality is really poor. How do I save this in DV AVI? I have the
> whole thing perfectly timed to the music so I don't want to mess that up. I
> saw a post that said you can save multiple copies of the project file and
> edit each one so that it represents one section of the final video but I
> don't understand what you are supposed to do after that. If you could explain
> this in really basic terms I would appreciate it. I am no computer expert.
> Thank you!

Wojo
Tue Mar 22 21:35:46 CST 2005

You said it won't let you save in anything other than broadband?
If you click on "Show more choices" and then select the radio button next to
"Other settings"
DV-AVI should be in the dropdown box list.
Splitting the video isn't something I would recommend if you have a
perfectly timed slideshow like you say.

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last night.

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"Jenbob" <Jenbob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a 270 picture/title movie that I am trying to save to DVD using
> Sonic My DVD. The only format it lets me save the whole thing in is
> broadband
> and then the quality is really poor. How do I save this in DV AVI? I have
> the
> whole thing perfectly timed to the music so I don't want to mess that up.
> I
> saw a post that said you can save multiple copies of the project file and
> edit each one so that it represents one section of the final video but I
> don't understand what you are supposed to do after that. If you could
> explain
> this in really basic terms I would appreciate it. I am no computer expert.
> Thank you!