wmp/avi to mpeg editing difficulties

[stickman009]

Hi all,

I finally got my firewire and and am eager to learn how all this editing stuff works, and I think I'm getting the hang of taking care of my home movies... even burned a dvd to see if I can do it, and I can, but I have this problem when I convert from wmp/avi to mpeg in the first place.

Here's what I've done...

In my newbieness, I captured and edited my video with Windows Movie Maker. Converted it so I can actually eventually burn it.

Part of my editing was a 10 second "warning" intro and then a somewhat "star wars scrolldown" intro to the movie where I also added the star wars theme in mp3 format.
At the end I added some end credits as well as some jpg pictures set to music as a conclusion. This all works fine in wmp format and avi.

Now when I convert it to mpeg to convert it eventually to burn it on dvd(using Roxio), here's what happens and I can't understand what's going on.

The 10 second "warning" intro turns into only 3 seconds, and the "star wars-like" intro cues up and a quicker rate, and the theme song doesn't start til it normally would(at the 16 second marker give or take, ie halfway through the now fast-moving intro), and then it starts into the regular home movie which works out fine.
At the end with the pictures and the music, same thing. The pictures whiz through at varying rates, and the song continues on at the proper speed, but the pictures are done, and the song gets cut off.

There might be an incident in the middle of the video as well where we made a commercial so added music and edit that way, but I THINK it came out ok... if not, I figured it would be the same problem as the aforementioned ones.

I thank you all for your time reading this and any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated!!

[thecoalman]

Not sure exactly what your doing as it seems a little unclear to me but (I'm assuming your capturing from digital cam) you should capture to DV-AVI, this will give you an exact copy of what's on your cam. You edit and convert this file once to DVD compliant mpeg and that's it....

You can capture directly to mpeg if your machine can handle, if you do editing should be limited to cutting and trimming the video. This file should be captured into DVD compliant format and you should use software that supporst only reencoding the parts you have edited.

[stickman009]

yeah sorry, it was from my DV.

So you're saying I just cut and edit that kinda thing and only do that and any effects I wish to add have to be done seperately?

If so, how do I put it all together so that the timing is right?

Because some are sound files, in other places I added titles(like when we went to new places I added a title saying where we are).

Not trying to burden you all with my questions, but any insight is helpful! None of my friends or anyone I know has yet to get into this kind of thing, so they can't offer much advice.

Thanks!

[stickman009]

oh by the way... the parts of the video that are from my camera turn out just fine... it was the titles and pictures that the timing is off on. hope that clears things up a little.