Windows MovieMaker 2 & CDR VCD

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  • NormanB
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Oct 2003
    • 1

    Windows MovieMaker 2 & CDR VCD

    Hi - Newbie alert!!

    I have carried out a search on this fine forum and cannot find anything close to my problem!

    I am having major problems with Windows MovieMaker 2.0 and specifically burning output to CDR. I am a newbie to video editing and matters digital, so it is entirely possible I am fouling things up and asking the software to do things that were not intended. My aim is to produce a vcd home movie that can be viewed on a standalone DVD player.

    The CD Drive is a Liteon 52246S and I have upgraded it to the latest firmware. Device Manager reports it as functioning correctly and it uses a generic windows driver. I have checked the Liteon site there are no driver updates available. I have uninstalled/reinstalled to eliminate driver corruption. The CDROM will successfully copy music CDs. I use quality (TDK) media and have set the max write speed to X16 to match the media in use.

    In WMM I can transfer digital video from my Sony PC100E via firewire without problem and indeed can send it back to a fresh tape. However on each occassion of attempting to 'burn' to CDR (using the 'send to CD function in WMM), I end up producing a coaster. This will occur on all file sizes as I have experimented with a one minute clip. I do not get any error messages at all and initially all looks well and things progress until it reaches 58% (and I thought the meaning of the universes was 42!!) and then it just sits there and does b***** all and will sit there for hours.

    The PC is a P4/2.6, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD using the XP Pro OS.

    Grateful for any help or advice.

    NormanB
  • atifsh
    Lord of Digital Video
    Lord of Digital Video
    • May 2003
    • 1534

    #2
    ok what i can tell u is wmm2 is a crap at least for me and know i dont even bother to install.

    second if u like u get video frm dv to vcd u may try cyberlinks power director 2.55 trial. it pretty good and easy. otherthen that i dont actually know any freeware that capture dv and make any mpeg format.
    Seems like as soon you buy somehing, v. 2 comes out 1.5 times as fast!..!

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