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This one has me banging my head against the keyboard. Finally getting around to getting 2 years’ worth of digital video off the camera and I want to make a DVD out of it to play on the ol’ idiot box.
Being a loyal Windows user (read: too cheap to buy video editing software), I’m using Windows Movie Maker.
You can’t burn direct to DVD using MM. The instructions are to “publish to my machine” and create a DV-AVI file, then burn that file to DVD.
Sure, I can do that.
However, despite the movie being just 90 minutes long, it takes up a whopping 20 GB–5 times the size of a DVD-R disc.
Somehow I have to get this rascal down to the size that it purportely should be based on video length. Google searches on this topic lead me down very seedy paths filled with potential spyware. I am looking for suggestions that don’t require me to buy a Mac or even other software…
On the Left Side of the Road...I had a movie I put together of video clips and stills that I did on iDVD on my Mac. It was maybe 30 minutes long and it was still too big to fit on one disc, so I never burned it. Now I can’t even find where it is on the computer! If there was a way to compress things to fit on a DVD-R disc, I never tried it.
That’s the perspective of a Mac user who’s not sure of what she’s doing.
I use VideoStudio X2 by Corel. The best thing is you can try it for 30 days to see if you like it. Here is the like:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1175714228541#tabview=tab0
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