saving project to CD

Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages and
at the end says:
Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
You may try again using a new Cd

Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
with this program.

I have a similar issue. It works if I save to a CD, but not to a DVD !!! I
can burn data or music to CDs or DVDs from other programmes.

"ccnush" wrote:

> Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages and
> at the end says:
> Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
> An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
> You may try again using a new Cd
>
> Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
> I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
> with this program.

The windows media maker does not support DVD's...you need a third party
software that makes DVD's for that. I can't even burn my project to a
regular Cd!!!

"blazeman" wrote:

> I have a similar issue. It works if I save to a CD, but not to a DVD !!! I
> can burn data or music to CDs or DVDs from other programmes.
>
> "ccnush" wrote:
>
> > Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages and
> > at the end says:
> > Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
> > An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
> > You may try again using a new Cd
> >
> > Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
> > I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
> > with this program.

What you are doing and what you are saying appear to be 2 different things.
You obviously know the need for third party software to author a DVD. But why
are you trying to save the PROJECT on a CD? Or are you really trying to save
MOVIE to CD? Your first post mentioned the Save Movie Wizard, but the second
post you said Save Project. These are 2 different things.

If you are trying to get the movie on CD and its small enough to fit, save
it to the hard drive then burn the data file with cd burning software.

Steve


"ccnush" wrote:

> The windows media maker does not support DVD's...you need a third party
> software that makes DVD's for that. I can't even burn my project to a
> regular Cd!!!
>
> "blazeman" wrote:
>
> > I have a similar issue. It works if I save to a CD, but not to a DVD !!! I
> > can burn data or music to CDs or DVDs from other programmes.
> >
> > "ccnush" wrote:
> >
> > > Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages and
> > > at the end says:
> > > Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
> > > An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
> > > You may try again using a new Cd
> > >
> > > Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
> > > I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
> > > with this program.

I don't think you read my posts correctly...I am trying to save my movie
project on a CD and it will not work. I can save it on my hard drive but
cannot burn it to a CD thru WMM. When you burn thru WMM you use the wizard
and that is the error message it gives me. Yes, I can burn thru other
software but should be able to burn using this too!!

"ccnush" wrote:

> Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages and
> at the end says:
> Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
> An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
> You may try again using a new Cd
>
> Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
> I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
> with this program.

I agree with Steve. The issue of not being able to use the save movie wizard
to save to a CD has come up many many times and the fact is that it isn't
that much harder to save it to your hard drive and then burn it to the CD.
You don't even need the CD burning software Steve suggests. Windows Explorer
will do the trick just by dragging it to the CD burner drive designation,
select that drive, click "burn these files to CD" and your done.
-Wojo

"ccnush" <ccnush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9CFA366B-3DB0-4E8E-A8BE-0551A090C239@microsoft.com...
> The windows media maker does not support DVD's...you need a third party
> software that makes DVD's for that. I can't even burn my project to a
> regular Cd!!!
>
> "blazeman" wrote:
>
>> I have a similar issue. It works if I save to a CD, but not to a DVD !!!
>> I
>> can burn data or music to CDs or DVDs from other programmes.
>>
>> "ccnush" wrote:
>>
>> > Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning
>> > stages and
>> > at the end says:
>> > Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
>> > An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
>> > You may try again using a new Cd
>> >
>> > Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
>> > I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD
>> > yet
>> > with this program.

Blazeman
If you are trying to use the "Save to CD" option with a DVD in the drive
that will not work.
If you have the "Save to DVD" option on your version of WMM then it should
be working but that option only creates a very simple DVD without menus and
chapter points etc...
To do anything worthwhile as a DVD you do need a DVD Authoring program such
as one of those listed in the "DVD Programs" section of my website.
--
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http://wojos-web.tk
Also Please visit.....
http://www.remember-christopher.dost...m/christopher/
Dedicated in loving memory of our son Christopher Lee

"blazeman" <blazeman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:63FE14D8-C1C2-4DA0-9FDE-82E5AEAC4A24@microsoft.com...
>I have a similar issue. It works if I save to a CD, but not to a DVD !!!
>I
> can burn data or music to CDs or DVDs from other programmes.
>
> "ccnush" wrote:
>
>> Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages
>> and
>> at the end says:
>> Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
>> An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
>> You may try again using a new Cd
>>
>> Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
>> I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
>> with this program.

He understood the post exactly the way you wrote it.
I understand what you are meaning to say but what you are saying is that you
are trying to save the "Project files" to a CD which of course you can't do
through WMM and I can't imagine why you would want to.
-Wojo

"ccnush" <ccnush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BF7C276D-1810-4410-AF0E-B67AE5483BCE@microsoft.com...
>I don't think you read my posts correctly...I am trying to save my movie
> project on a CD and it will not work. I can save it on my hard drive but
> cannot burn it to a CD thru WMM. When you burn thru WMM you use the
> wizard
> and that is the error message it gives me. Yes, I can burn thru other
> software but should be able to burn using this too!!
>
> "ccnush" wrote:
>
>> Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages
>> and
>> at the end says:
>> Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
>> An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
>> You may try again using a new Cd
>>
>> Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
>> I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
>> with this program.

yes i said I was saving a project, not project files, and again I am asking
for help in burning a CD from WMM, but thank you for the advice as to burning
from my hard disk.
"ccnush" wrote:

> Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages and
> at the end says:
> Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
> An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
> You may try again using a new Cd
>
> Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
> I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
> with this program.

Saving a project means saving the files <clips> that make up your
project. But saving a movie saves your piece as a single file.

ccnush wrote:

> yes i said I was saving a project, not project files, and again I am asking
> for help in burning a CD from WMM, but thank you for the advice as to burning
> from my hard disk.
> "ccnush" wrote:
>
>
>>Help!!! I cannot save my project to CD...it goes thru the burning stages and
>>at the end says:
>>Cannot Complete the Save Movie Wizard
>>An unknown error occured when saving the movie to CD
>>You may try again using a new Cd
>>
>>Have done this twice, and wasted 2 CDs since my drive only takes CD-R
>>I know the CD are fine and have not yet been able to transfer to CD yet
>>with this program.