What am I doing wrong?

I've posted this 3 times, and no one is responding. Please, someone, help me!!

I have tried several permutations to get my vcd's and c-dvd's to play on computers other than the computer that created them. I have MM2 and created a fabulous movie which I saved in dv-avi. Then I used Roxio to record them in the various formats

I now have 10 cds, and none of them can be opened on all computers, just a couple on this computer, and a couple on that computer..
I then tried to capture the video directly into Roxio and burn from there, but again, there are no reliable results. I thought creating the video in Roxio would make it more compatible with Roxio's encoding process, but so far, it doesn't seem to be any better than creating the movie in MM2 and saving as dv-avi & importing it into Roxio. Am I missing a step in Roxio

So far, the best and most universal disc I have been able to do is to create a VCD (via mm2 to roxio) which requires the users to open their windows media player (or quicktime for mac users), and then, from within the player, manually open one of the 5 files which will appear. Then the video opens.

I am using these cd's to promote my business and I am worried that a potential customer will not go to all of the trouble to open these cd's

The only good side to this last cd is that I tried it on 4 computers and the "manual" way worked on all of them

Is there a better way? Should I just include instructions for opening my cd's when I send them
Thank you in advance for your help

I have a professional Video Business using Premier to edit my videos. To
create a DVD, regardless of the editing program, you have to first export
the edited video to a mpeg file. Usually, the Audio and Video files are
saved as separate files. Mine are saved as a .avi and .wav file. From
there, you use a DVD authoring program to author the video into DVD format.
Then, you burn the files the DVD authoring program creates onto a DVD disk.

If you want a video file to play on a computer, the best formats are windows
media, mpeg, real player or .mov files. They will play in smaller windows.

Here is a site that may be of help to you:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/

C.E. Jones

"lmh" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've posted this 3 times, and no one is responding. Please, someone, help

me!!!

>
> I have tried several permutations to get my vcd's and c-dvd's to play on

computers other than the computer that created them. I have MM2 and created
a fabulous movie which I saved in dv-avi. Then I used Roxio to record them
in the various formats.

>
> I now have 10 cds, and none of them can be opened on all computers, just a

couple on this computer, and a couple on that computer...

> I then tried to capture the video directly into Roxio and burn from there,

but again, there are no reliable results. I thought creating the video in
Roxio would make it more compatible with Roxio's encoding process, but so
far, it doesn't seem to be any better than creating the movie in MM2 and
saving as dv-avi & importing it into Roxio. Am I missing a step in Roxio?

>
> So far, the best and most universal disc I have been able to do is to

create a VCD (via mm2 to roxio) which requires the users to open their
windows media player (or quicktime for mac users), and then, from within the
player, manually open one of the 5 files which will appear. Then the video
opens.

>
> I am using these cd's to promote my business and I am worried that a

potential customer will not go to all of the trouble to open these cd's.

>
> The only good side to this last cd is that I tried it on 4 computers and

the "manual" way worked on all of them.

>
> Is there a better way? Should I just include instructions for opening my

cd's when I send them?

> Thank you in advance for your help.
>

I keep thinking this is the "buggiest" software Microsoft has ever created and the design team must have been fired before release because none of them respond to this site

I have an Adaptec AVC-2310 capture device which captures and works fine within the confines of Sonic My DVD. I was able to import my mpeg files into MM2, edited just fine & saved AVI files until suddenly MM2 crashed my computer & I had to format & reinstall my HD. Now MM2 imports my mpeg files & I can preview them but there is no video (just sound). And now when I click on the clip I get an ActiveMovie Window I never did before. I cannot capture using MM2 (it gives me a runtime error) & I cannot capture using Nero 6 Ultra (tells me capture device is in use). I have read until I am blue in the face. I downloaded a trial version of OSS Converter to convert the mpeg to AVI so I can import into MM2 but review says it is spyware. MM2 is the only non-linear editing software I can find. My system is a Dell Pentium III 667 Mhz, but it still meets all the requirements for the capture & editing tools.

All I want to do is take all my old VHS tapes and convert them to DVD - nothing really fancy, but I am having lots of problems just figuring out which are the best tools to use. I have read forums (including papjohn's) & still don't quite understand the problem. I also downloaded DivX codec & a trial program to convert to that. The way I see it I am capturing the video, converting to AVI, editing, converting back to mpeg - all just to burn a DVD. Is this the correct way to proceed. Can someone help me? Thanks.

Hello there,

Basically, Movie Maker and MPEG, MP3 and JPeg files do not get along together.
Any of these files should be converted to AVI, WAV and BMP files.

For the best site I have ever come across on converting files from one format
to another go to my web site and click on GREAT LINKS > IMAGING > KNOWLEDGE
CASE and go to Video Help. The site has a lot of information together with
links to software for download

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