burn digital camera movie to see on TV

[joyce batchelor]

best way, in Nero Essentails, to burn short movies from digital camera to CD or DVD that will play on TV through DVD player and enable more movies to be added later
[have XP Home 2007 and MS Office 2007 professional Academic]
have had some work, some NOT!

[thecoalman]

Well, I guess that depends on the capabilities of Nero Essentials. A quick serch for specs shows it doesn't have a MPEG2 encoder so you can't make a DVD with that will play on most DVD players.

If your player supports divx or direct playing of MPEG files you can use various tools to encode to either and just burn a data disc. This won't provide menus and other nice things.

For menus and MPEG2 encoding you'll need additional software, Ulead Video Studio has a free trial and does it all.

There's other options such as VCDEasy but if you have some very good quality video that is going to degrde it significantly. What type of cam is it? Video cam?, digital still camera with the ability to make video?

[joyce batchelor]

best way, in Nero Essentails, to burn short movies from digital camera to CD or DVD that will play on TV through DVD player and enable more movies to be added later
[have XP Home 2007 and MS Office 2007 professional Academic]
have had some work, some NOT!

Thank you Coalman! it is an Olympus Digital Camera, films up to 60 second movies
Bbeggining to think we need a more up to date DVD player - ours is 3- 4 years old.

[thecoalman]

Try VCDEasy, there's a free version. Again it's not super high quality but the video produced by those camers isn't exactly the best to begin with for transferring to DVD. If you really want to to do video in earnest get a video camera.

Divx and/or Mpeg playback is becoming pretty common now for many DVD players but its an extra. Some of those cameras record in the divx format, if thats the case you wuld only have to copy the file from the camera to a DVD, insert into divx compatible DVD player.

[joyce batchelor]

thanks i think one needs to be reired and online at home - toooo much to learn!