Lets start from the beginning.
How did you get the movie onto the computer?
Using what connections and leads?
What format did you save it in?

To find if you have ntfs, then go
My Computer
Right click the hard drive
choose properties
read what they are in the window that opens.

Not sure what the relavance for saying you could burn cd's before is.

You can change it, but we'll leave that for later if needed. It shouldn't
really stop you from saving to dv-avi, just limit what you can do.

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


"Ram" <Ram@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F61C8D5A-50B1-4FC6-AD50-F3B914FAF424@microsoft.com...
>I have a Dell purchased 2 years ago. I have been able to burn a CD in the
> past. How would I find out if the hard drive id formatted in NTFS or
> FAT32?
> Can one change this? I just do not have the DV-AVI option. There has to be
> a
> way to get around this.
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> You're half way there:
>>
>> After clicking on Save to My Computer you should get the screen which
>> asks
>> for File Name and Location
>>
>> Then you click on Next...
>>
>> Put the check mark in Other Settings.... and use the drop down menu....
>> It
>> should start with:
>>
>> Video for Pocket PC (three different options) and continue on from
>> there...
>>
>> After the High Quality Video, you get the Video for Local Playback
>> options,
>> then Video for LAN, Video for Broadband and further down still, DV-AVI.
>>
>> Just a side note, your hard drive is formatted in NTFS, yes, and not
>> FAT32?
>> If you are still in FAT32 you cannot save a file larger than 4gb and
>> therefore, since DV-AVI is going to be in the region of 12gb per hour,
>> you
>> may not have the option.
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...october01.mspx
>> --
>> Cari (MS-MVP)
>> Printing & Imaging
>> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>>
>>
>>
>> "Ram" <Ram@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:EED90591-D1B3-4638-A551-48BADEED5CD5@microsoft.com...
>> > Every suggestion received tells me what I have done so far. This is the
>> > problem. I want to save my movie. I enter the name and location. Under
>> > other
>> > settings the drop off window does not have the DV-AVI option. I have
>> > other
>> > options which I do not know what they mean. Question is where is my
>> > DV-AVI?
>> > and what are the meanings of the following choices under other:
>> > Vido for local Player (2.1 and 1.5mbps.
>> > VideoLAN (1.0 and 768 )
>> > Video broad band
>> > Video local playback 2.1 and 1.5?
>>
>>
>>