I want to burn a movie I made to DVD with the builit in DVD_+R on my laptop. This editing program (Studio 7.15) will only allow me to output to Tape, AVI, MPEG1 or Stream. I thought that to be able to burn a movie to DVD so that a normal player could read it, it had to be in MPEG2. Once the project has finished rendering (have tried twice but there's a flaw), it will have the RealPlayer icon and be over 6 gigs for a movie that's about 22 minutes. Don't know where to go from here.
I really appreciate your response. VERY helpful. I finally got the project rendered and have an AVI file that's almost 7 gigs. However, I now have less than 2 gigs of space left on the HD. Is this AVI a stand alone file, i.e., does it need to refer to the video source, because if not, I really need to trash the captured video to free up space. If I dump the original video, will the AVI file still be good?
Yes the AVI will be all you need to convert it to DVD format BUT I would be very certain that the AVI is good before I trashed the original ....why not just burn the original to DVD as a data disk for safe keeping just in case?
Yes, good idea, watching the AVI file first. I already have a an edited backup on digital mini cassette so don't need to burn a data disk. Besides, I already tried that and it failed. I used Ashampoo Burn Studio 6, which I just bought, and when trying to make a data back-up disk (because I'm thinking of reformatting to give me extra space), I got - "The inserted CD/DVD could not be detected successfully". I tried with two brand new Imation DVD-RW disks and had less the 2 gigs to save when the disk can hold over 4, so don't know what happened. Burned a data CD fine, but not the DVD.
