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?

bsquared wrote:
> 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?
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Maybe these links will get you started:

Burn a Movie Maker Project to DVD
http://tinyurl.com/644me

How do I make a DVD
http://www.rehanfx.org/faq.htm

Windows Movie Maker Forums
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/

Movie Maker 2 and DVD Burning Software
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-DVD.html

Burning DVDs With Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/jqfz

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP
How to ask a newsgroup question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

If the DVD plays fine in you *computer* (using Windows Media Player), but
not in other people's *computer* then it sounds like you have an
incompatiblity with DVD-R (or -R/W) and DVD+R (or +RW). Most newer DVD
drives can read both formats (especially the write-once -R or +R), but
that's not the case for older drives. And the compabitlity with re-writable
media (-R/W or +RW) is even lower.

Of course a much more "sharable" format is DVD-Video, but that requires
software other than WMM2. And you'll still have problems with some
stand-alone DVD players prefering one type of DVD media over the
other...when I want to be sure I can always playback, I burn both a DVD-R
and DVD+R and put them both in a case that holds two disks.

Dan

"bsquared" <bsquared@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67E4AAE5-7735-4AE5-869F-18BAECD6F4AA@microsoft.com...
>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?

"bsquared" <bsquared@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67E4AAE5-7735-4AE5-869F-18BAECD6F4AA@microsoft.com...
>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.....

They need to have a DVD player or burner installed. DVDs won't play in a
regular cd-rom drive. Plus the software to play dvd.


... 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?

I have the same problem as bsquared. My WMM movie is in *.wmv format.
Following John Inzer's advice, apparently all we have to do is install the
Mydvd software provided in his links.

Will this solve the problem?

"Burgy" wrote:

>
> "bsquared" <bsquared@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:67E4AAE5-7735-4AE5-869F-18BAECD6F4AA@microsoft.com...
> >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.....
>
> They need to have a DVD player or burner installed. DVDs won't play in a
> regular cd-rom drive. Plus the software to play dvd.
>
>
> ... 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?
>
>
>

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.



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


"bsquared" <bsquared@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67E4AAE5-7735-4AE5-869F-18BAECD6F4AA@microsoft.com...
>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?

My dvd will take wmv's, but you could also save out the movie from MM as a
dv-avi, which all dvd authoring apps will use.

Graham

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


"bob h" <bobh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C610019E-0652-4229-85AF-3D02E17F4A38@microsoft.com...
>I have the same problem as bsquared. My WMM movie is in *.wmv format.
> Following John Inzer's advice, apparently all we have to do is install the
> Mydvd software provided in his links.
>
> Will this solve the problem?
>
> "Burgy" wrote:
>
>>
>> "bsquared" <bsquared@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:67E4AAE5-7735-4AE5-869F-18BAECD6F4AA@microsoft.com...
>> >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.....
>>
>> They need to have a DVD player or burner installed. DVDs won't play in a
>> regular cd-rom drive. Plus the software to play dvd.
>>
>>
>> ... 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?
>>
>>
>>