MS Movie Maker and buring DVD

[ccm]

Hi,
I am very new to this hobby and have decided to attempt my first movie project by using Movie Maker that was included with my XP computer. I must have something simple because I will use this software maybe once a year at best. My needs are very basic-move my video from my camcorder to the pc, clip some unwanted footage and burn to a DVD that will play on a PC or TV. Seems that MM will meet my needs except for burning to a DVD. I am sure this can be done with additional software. If anyone has ever burned MM videos on to a DVD I would greatly appreciate some advice on what software to us (must be simple and very inexpensive) and the process you followed.

Thanks in advance for helping me out.

[filmboss80]

If your camcorder footage is miniDV (you didn't say), maintain the DV-AVI format all the way through the editing process. Never save your Movie Maker project as a WMV file. That would compress the crap out of your camcorder footage and soften the image. In Windows Movie Maker, you will want to select File > Save Movie File. When the Save Movie Wizard comes up, choose My Computer, then name the file and select the location. After hitting the Next button, a Movie Setting menu. Select "Other Settings," which will give you a list of selections. Pick DV-AVI (NTSC) as your setting.

Let it make the file, which might take up a bit of hard drive space. After that, you can drop the avi into DVD Flick, a very simple freeware DVD-making program available in the Tools section of this site. Once the DVD is completed to your satisfaction you can delete the large DV-AVI file.

[ccm]

Filmboss80,
Now I know twice as much as before my post. This is great info. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.

Charlie