You may be saving the project files to the dvd, which will pay on your pc,
because you have all the files on it, but your friends won't.
What file format are you saving to the dvd? mswmm? This is the project.
You need to save as a dv-avi file
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/Tutorials.htm
see the movie maker ones for how to do this.
Then take this file into your dvd authoring programme, no doubt the links
John has mention will save going through all of this.



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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"bsquared" <bsquared@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have spent days constructing a movie of selected digital movie clips,
> stills and scrolling credits using windows movie maker on an XP platform.
> The
> file will save to a DVD via my computer and play on my computer but not on
> other people's computers....... It is essential that I be able to convert
> this movie to a more "sharable" format. Is there an easy way to do that?
> Must
> I buy a different software program to do so?