Desperately need way to burn QuickTime movie to DVD on PC

[Vidbuff]

I am desperately looking for a PC program that can burn a QuickTime slide show movie onto a video DVD.

On the Mac, both Apple's iDVD and Roxio's Toast do it easily. I need something similar for the PC that can simply take a QuickTime movie, encode it and burn an autostart DVD. Sounds simple but I haven't found any program that does this on a PC. Either the slide transitions don't occur or the music tracks are missing or the software says it doesn't handle that format.

A simple example movie is available here: http://www.talasoft.com/qttodvdtest.zip

If you have or know of a product that can burn that small QuickTime movie onto a DVD I'd really appreciate knowing about it, so I can refer all my PC users to it.

If it's allowed here, I would be happy to provide a reward via PayPal for the first person to find a solution.

Thanks, Joe

[FulciLives]

Are you on crack cocaine man ?!?!

You desperately need to get THIS dumb ass video onto DVD ?!?!

You are sick and out-of-your freaking mind man.

LOSER doesn't begin to describe your issues.

Having said that the program TMPGEnc Plus can read and convert most QuickTime MOV files to MPEG-2 DVD spec if you use the TMPGEnc MOV Plugin

Also the pay-for-it professional version of QuickTime (for Windows) can decode a quicktime MOV file to an AVI which can then be converted to MPEG-2 DVD spec.

I mean those are just two easy solutions that come to mind.

More exist.

PM me so I can give you my PAY PAL account.

You silly stupid person.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[TaoTeWingChun]

Vidbuff,

Please forgive FulciLives - I'm certain he meant nothing personal or disparaging in his comments. After all, *we* are NOT the judges of anyone's personal video editing projects, no matter what content they may be, right John?

The short answer is yes, you most certainly can convert tracks/clips like that sample to DVD, using TMPGenc Plus and the TMPGenc MOV Plugin. The one thing I would try to convice you of, however, is making sure you put sufficient content on a DVD to merit it's burning. In other words, I really hope you are planning on using more than this one clip to burn to DVD, or you will really be wasting alot of DVD space, if you take my meaning.

Regardless of what your projects are, we've no right to judge them, most especially not based on one smallish example. We just want to assist you in the success of your projects - after all, in the end you are the one who will be enjoying them.

Post back if you have any questions, but try the tools FulciLives suggested, you will find them very useful for this exact conversion.

Post back with your results, when you can.

Cheers!

TTWC

[Vidbuff]

John and TTWC

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate the info no matter what kind of package it comes in. That sample is not at all representative of the actual content, but it's just some small images in a small file that contains both image and music transitions that need to be supported when burning the DVD. I'll check out those tools and let you know if they do what I need.

Thanks, Joe

[Vidbuff]

John

TMPGenc Plus seems to process my smaple movie file OK, but it doesn't actually burn a DVD. What's the simplest way to get the output of TMPGenc Plus onto a video DVD?

[guns1inger]

Do you need to author it, or do you just want the mpeg files ?

If you need to author it first, tmpgenc DVD author might be enough, or even dvdauthorgui.

Once you have the output, imgtools classic to create an ISO file, and imgburn to burn it to DVD. Seems long winded, but it is a very reliable method

[FulciLives]

Do you need to author it, or do you just want the mpeg files ?

If you need to author it first, tmpgenc DVD author might be enough, or even dvdauthorgui.

Once you have the output, imgtools classic to create an ISO file, and imgburn to burn it to DVD. Seems long winded, but it is a very reliable method

There are many DVD authoring programs but I agree that TMPGEnc DVD Author is the way to go as it is simple and easy-to-use and best of all very reliable. The menu designs are somewhat limited but with a bit of creativity you can add some of your own backgrounds and make it "fancy enough".

I also agree with the other stuff said above by guns1inger although if you are using TMPGEnc DVD Author then by all means use it to create your ISO IMAGE FILE but do use ImgBurn for the actual burning.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[guns1inger]

Forgot it creates ISOs. I only used the demo for one specific project, just to see what the fuss was about.

[FulciLives]

Forgot it creates ISOs. I only used the demo for one specific project, just to see what the fuss was about.

ImgTool classic is THE program for making an ISO IMAGE FILE but TMPGEnc DVD Author also does it well so when I use it to create a DVD I let it make the ISO IMAGE FILE.

If I am using something else ... like DVD-Lab Pro or DVDShrink ... then I use ImgTool classic for the ISO IMAGE FILE.

I should point out that both ImgTool classic and ImgBurn are freeware and in this crazy world of computer digital video they actually work better than programs you can buy ... which is kinda sad in a way ... but my point is I and guns1inger and others prefer them for how well they work ... not because they are free.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman