Preparing Video for DVD

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I will show you how to render out your final video, in order to, put it on a DVD. I will use Windows Movie Maker. Windows Movie Maker is a registered trademark of Microsoft, a company, which I have no affiliation with, whatsoever. OK, so, we are in Windows Movie Maker and I have created the video that I want to put on the DVD. I have edited it, put in the effects and everything that I need. Now, I am ready to render this out into a single video file, which will then be put into the DVD creation application on my computer, as well. I will be making the DVD there. So, in Windows Movie Maker, you go to menu, select ?File, next, 'Save movie' and finally 'File'. In other applications, it could be labeled something else, but, it will usually be in the 'File' tab. It could be named something like, 'Render video'. You'll just have to figure that out, for whatever program you're using. However, if you are using Windows Movie Maker click on this option, and then you are going to save it to your computer. Next, it will give you the option to name it and we are going to save it. I'm just going to go with the default name here, with 'Movie and My Videos'. Move on. This step is pretty important, what is going to happen is that you're going to make one video file. Next, you are going to take that video file and put it your DVD application. However, DVDs use the video format of MPEG-2, but we are not going to save it as a MPEG-2. The reason for that is because this application doesn't support rendering an MPEG-2. I can render a DV AVI. hat's what I would suggest because you have to get the exact right type of selections. DVDs are very specific in what type of MPEG-2s. It is not just any MPEG-2s that they will accept. So, what's going to happen is that we are going to render a high quality video on DV AVI. Then, it's going to re-render it as a MPEG-2. We, might as well, start with a high quality, then go down, instead of rendering it out to a MPEG-2, and re-rendering it, thus losing more quality. So, I would suggest that, unless you really know the exact perimeters that you're supposed to make the MPEG-2, just render a DV AVI and leave it at that. It is really simple. So, that's what I am going to select. Then, I am going to 'Next' and it should start a rendering, in here. It will give you a time estimate. You'll just have to sit around and wait, but, when it is done, you'll have a single video file. You can then move on to putting that on a DVD."