How to burn slideshow with pictures to a DVD?

[DarkHadou]

I am briefly going to state the problem. I created a slideshow with pictures on windows movie maker and added mp3 song to it and published it and saved it. And then I converted the .wmv file to .mp4 in order to burn it to a DVD. That is the only method I know. I played it on dvd player and watched it on TV and noticed that it wasn't perfect, that it looks kinda blurry. Is it because it's mp4? What type of dvd file format was it suppose to be? And was I suppose to convert the .wmv file to mp4? If not, then how do I even create a slideshow with pictures and mp3 instrumental music while keeping the quality of the pictures?

and YES the dvd player works, YES the dvd is fine, YES the dvd burner works,

ok............. thanks

[filmboss80]

Both wmp and mp4 are highly compressed video playback formats. In the left column of this site is What Is > DVD. I suggest you read it. DVD videos are mpeg2 files wrapped in vob containers (along with navigation info, subtitles, alternate audio streams, etc.).

What you need to do is take your Windows Movie Maker project and export as a DV-AVI file.

Then go to the left column of this site to the Tools section and download the free software program called FAVC. That will turn your DV-AVI file into appropriate video files for DVD.

[LJB]

If you saved the project as dv-avi rather than wmf, you could then load the dv-avi file into your favorite dvd authoring program and produce a clear, crisp dvd. Please understand that once you go to wmf, you lose some quality, then when you go to mp4 from wmf you lose more quality.

[DarkHadou]

I just saved the movie maker project as DV-AVI (NTSC) and also High quality video (NTSC) and I saw both videos on windows media player and both are blurry. The one that is . best quality for playback on my computer, windows media video (WMV) looks GOOD. It doesn't make sense. I thought DV-AVI was suppose to be better.

[MOVIEGEEK]

WMM is subpar at best,use DVD Slideshow GUI or Ulead DVD PictureShow .

[filmboss80]

At no time ever has WMV been of better quality than DV-AVI. Evidently you saved the project first as a WMV file then converted from that to DV-AVI. Or else the playback on your PC monitor is not handling interlaced images properly.

Moviegeek is absolutely right about Windows Movie Maker being subpar, and offered 2 other alternatives. My earlier suggestion was only if you wanted to stick with WMM. But you have to have all your original clips set for AVI and not WMV. At no point should WMV ever enter the equation.

[DarkHadou]

okay people, the problem is solved. I simply burned the wmv file to dvd and it looks better now.