I am trying to convert video from my video camera to make a dvd of my daughter's birth.  I don't care for windows movie maker.  What is an easier software program to use to create and burn dvd movies?
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You'll need a video capture card that simply plugs into a PCI slot, and tehn you just plug the camera in. \n\nWindows XP comes with it's own movie making software, but assuming you have  DVD drive, chances are you'll already haveing the POwerDVD suite of software, which will allow you to create movies and burn them to DVD.\n\nThere is a vast array of video capture cards on the market - make sure that the one you get has the appropriate connections for teh cam - typically the red, yellow & white AV sockets.
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More and more people are asking how to burn their Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentations to DVD, for two very obvious reasons:\n\nPowerPoint is an extremely easy multimedia authoring tool to use. PowerPoint is also widely available, and you don't have to be a genius to use it. \nDVDs have become very cost effective to create, and DVD players are widely available. And playing DVDs doesn't require a computer. \n\nUsing PowerPoint and a DVD, you have an easy method of getting your message out, whether as a training video or a digital business card promoting your products or services. And your audience can view your material at home as well as in their offices.\n\nA common method of committing a PowerPoint presentation to DVD involves making a video recording of the complete presentation in real time, saving the recorded presentation as a video file, and finally transferring that video file onto a DVD. Third-party software is required to record the presentation.\n\nThis article presents an alternative method, in which you convert your PowerPoint presentation into a storyboard of slides that can, in turn, be used to create a video file that can be burned to a DVD. A storyboard is a series of slide images that works rather like one of those cartoon flipbooks. A stack of pictures are bound so that the images can be riffled through with the thumb, causing the illusion of a moving picture.\n\nStoryboarding your presentation is an entirely different process from capturing a presentation that is running on a screen. The end result can be spectacular, but it is not as fully automated as the recording of a live presentation.\n\nBefore you start\nTo create video files, you need one of the following:\n\nPhoto slideshow software  \nPhoto slideshow software makes it possible to create slideshows from your digital photos. Some programs allow you to add special effects, soundtracks, voice narration, titles, and captions to your shows.\n\nThere are many photo slideshow applications available at little or no cost on the Internet, and most digital cameras come with software that lets you create digital video shows from your photos. Photo Story 3 software for Windows XP is available free from Microsoft.\n\nVideo editing software  \nVideo editing software is used to cut and arrange, and also to add effects to, digital video content.\n\nAgain, there is a wide variety of programs available, many of them for free or near free; and most DVD burners come with software that allows you to edit your video footage. Movie Maker software for Windows XP is available free from Microsoft.\n\n\nTo burn your video files to DVD discs, you also need:\n\nA DVD burner   This is the hardware in which the physical DVD disc is formatted. \nDVD burning software   Most DVD burners arrive complete with the software that you need to burn DVDs. Make sure that your software has the ability to convert the format of your video to one that can be played on a conventional television DVD player.\nNote  Many photo slideshow and video editing software packages also provide the ability to burn video to a DVD disc, or will at least export video to be burned to a DVD. One such program available for purchase is Sonic DVD for Photo Story 3.\n\n\nIf you plan to play your DVD on televisions, Part I\n\nThe quality (or resolution) of most TV screens is not as good as that of most computer monitors. If you plan to play your DVD on a television screen, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Taj Simmons offers the following suggestions:\n\nAvoid putting information too close to the edges of your slides. (Information placed too close to the edge may be cut off when viewed on a TV.) \nAvoid very small text. A lot depends on the quality of the TV and how far back the TV will be viewed from. \nAim for no smaller than 30-point font sizes. \nAvoid very thin lines. Aim for at least 3-point line sizes. \nAvoid colors that look bad on TV. (Red is notorious for this.) \nAvoid very narrow, pale, thin, and
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Yes. Movie Maker from Microsoft. It's a free download at Microsoft.com. It will allow you to do some neat stuff with your pictures. Burn to CD's and play them on your home DVD player.
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I highly recommend the SONY DVD Direct model.  This is the world's first external DVD recorder which doubles up as a DVD burner...meaning you can use it to record video streams from a VHS, DVD, or a CAMCORDER and ALSO connect it to your computer to burn data for backup purposes.\n\nIt's ease of use is mindblowing.  I own one for myself and bought one for my father-in-law for Christmas.  It is really easy to use!!  Check out the website http://www.sonyburners.com/dvdirect for more info!\n\nTo answer your question, yes I have used it before.\n\nIs there a particular kind that is better?  I recommend going with a name-brand model, simply because they actually have a dedicated technical support team to assist you with any questions.\n\nIs there a particular kind that is easier to use than others?  Definitely!!  The SONY DVD Direct is the EASIEST one out there currently.\n\nCan store bought movies on VHS be turned into DVD?\nThe quick answer is YES.  However, if the VHS has copy protection, the picture quality on your DVD will be quite unsatisfactory.  Some copy protection on VHS will make the reproduced version have a brightness and darkness see-sawing effect. It will change from very bright to very dark and back and fort.  Other copy protection will simply distort the entire image..etc..\n\nI hope that helps!!
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u can use the nero recode tool if u r making a compilation on a dvd. but the problem is tht all the different movies join one after another and one long chain is made. u cannot also make the menues in nero recode. i 4 myself, do: first compress the compilation to less than 4.3GB using 'shrinkDVD' - good tool. then import the shrunk files to 'Nero Vision' [its in the same package], make the menues and finally make an iso file. i burn the iso file to the dvd by 'sonic' - [its fast] - u can try this - i use it often.
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You can use software like Nero to burn DVDs if you mean burning the data file (such as a *.mpeg or *.avi movie file you have made with a digital camera or webcam), and then you can play that movie/data file on other computers with DVD drives.  To be able to play one of these video files on a DVD player, however, depends on your particular model.  Most will play an *.mpeg4 format.  But it won't look like a commercial DVD, with menus, etc.\n\nIf you want to create a DVD that will play on all DVD players and have custom menus and other digital content, you should start with whatever version of Nero that came with your DVD-RW drive, go to the Nero website and update it to the current version.  I use Nero Vision Express 3 SE.\n\nJust one catch:  you have to purchase the video plug-in for about $10 for the software to encode it in the format used for commercial DVDs (NTSC for U.S. or PAL format for Europe).  But it is worth the price in my opinion.  You can create your own menus, and it has a window with a picture of a remote control.  You punch the buttons on it, and it will show you how the navigation through the menu will work when you use the remote control of your DVD player.  You can make really professional looking DVDs of your home movies, etc., with this software.  But when you create the DVD, remember that it has to encode it while burning it, so (unlike directly copying a file) it will take practically half the length of the movie itself to make the DVD (so it might take 10 or 15 minutes to make a DVD of a 30 minute movie).\n\nSome people want to make copies of commercial DVDs like movies they have purchased, to have a backup in case their original version gets damaged.  You can't make direct copies of commercial DVDs with the Nero software.  DVD copying software to make exact copies is available at stores like CompUSA:\nhttp://www.compusa.com/products/products.asp?N=200163&Ntt=dvd%20copy&Ntk=All&Nty=1&D=dvd%20copy&Dx=mode%20matchall\nI haven't tried any of them, but it looks like they have one version for $5, so it's worth a try.  The typical price is about $40.  These are supposed to make an identical clone of the DVD you are copying, with menus and all the special features.\n\nThere have been lawsuits trying to stop the sale of DVD copying software, but for now it is available.  If you use the software for anything other than making a backup of a movie you own, then you are probably violating copyright laws.
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As I do not know what type of video files you use I cannot give you very specific advise.\n\nHowever, goto:\n\nhttp://www.download.com/DVD-Tools/3150-7970_4-0.html?tag=dir\n\nIt is download.com's DVD tools section. Have a look for a program that burns your type of video file (ie. avi,mpeg etc.) to a DVD. All the programs on this site are either free or free to try. The free to try one sometimes have some limitations on use so be sure to check for details on the download page.\n\nJust to let you know DVDs usually take a long time to burn I usually just watch them on the computer.\n\nHope this Helps!
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You need DVD burning software to burn movies.\n\nhttp://www.cdfreaks.com/software/Copy-DVD-Movie-Software.html\n\nhttp://ww2.nero.com/enu/index.html
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http://www.videohelp.com\n\nIt will give tutorials and software sources for converting WMV to MPEG4 / DVD video, which you need your video to be for it to play as a regular DVD disk.
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I've used DVDStyler in the past; it's not too bad.  You make the menu, link it to the mpeg2 video files you want to use (it may take other stuff too), and it produces an ISO to burn.  I couldn't burn the ISO using Nero Express 5, but DeepBurner (also free) seems to work for burning these ISOs.
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Try doing this.\n\nDownload and install a software called winavi converter.\nUse this converter to convert your video file.A single vob file without any IFO and BUP file cannot be burnt to a video dvd.\n\nI think you are using a normal video converter.Like imtoo mpeg encoder.Please email me with a better idea of your problem.
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That software is completely illegal and most of the versions of it are completely illegal.  You can try to find a program that will "rip" the dvd to your hard drive and then you can create and burn a dvd image from there, but it's not really worth the time and effort unless you're going to sell them or something.  If you're just trying to get cheap dvd's for yourself, go to a video rental place and buy their used ones, they usually have good deals and at least you get a case.
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Fire-wire cards will work but you also need the right software to import it to PC. Like Adobe, or Pinnacle. I like Canopus myself. Let's you edit the Video from a unprotected DVD without having to rip it first. It's called Let's EDIT. You can use Movie Maker but it's very limited.
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windows movie maker is the best
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use Nero 7 when you download the video just click on the desk top short cut for Nero start smart and choose DVD and make DVD then add video files find where you have the files stored and click on them Nero will convert them to DVD format and you can burn them. the program is only about 80.00. if you have more questions just im me.
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You could go for the 'Digital Media Converter' noted by another user, but it costs $39.95.  You can easily do this without having to buy a program.\n\nIf you download 'RAD Video Tools' (freeware), you can convert your QuickTime movies to an AVI file that Windows Movie Maker can import, edit and save as a movie.  Windows Movie Maker will create a WMV file, and that can easily be uploaded on to Putfile.  I've loaded several of my own videos up there from WMM.\n\nFor more details on using RAD Video Tools, I've added a link to a newsletter on the topic.  If you need more help, the folks at WindowsMovieMakers.net are very helpful.  Post a question in their forums.