Steps To Create New Video DVD With Windows DVD Maker

Steps To Create New Video DVD With Windows DVD Maker

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The Windows DVD Maker program included with Windows 7 enables you to burn video DVDs by using digital photos or videos you’ve saved on your computer that you can then play back in standalone DVD players connected to a TV. Best of all, this handy little program lets you create menus for your video DVD just like those created for professional movies released on DVD for purchase or rent. All you need is a blank DVD and a DVD drive on your computer that’s capable of writing DVDs.

To create a new video DVD with Windows DVD Maker, follow these steps:

• 1. Insert a blank DVD into your computer’s DVD drive.
• 2. Choose Start➪All Programs➪Windows DVD Maker to launch Windows
  DVD Maker.

3. (Optional) If the Share Your Memories on a DVD start screen appears (because you didn’t deselect the Don’t Show This Page Again check box), you must click the Choose Photos and Videos button in the initial Windows DVD Maker window to open the Add Pictures and Video to the DVD screen.

• 4. Click the Add Items button on the Windows DVD Maker window’s toolbar to display the Open dialog box.
• 5. Select all the digital videos you want to add to your DVD by clicking the appropriate media folder in the Favorite Links section of the Navigation pane and then selecting their file icons before you click Open. Hold down the Ctrl key and click individual icons to select multiple video files for the DVD.
• 6. Replace the title that automatically appears in the DVD Title text box in the lower-right corner of the Windows DVD Maker window — it uses the current date — with a title that you want to appear on the DVD menu.

7. (Optional) After selecting all the video files for the DVD, select the video thumbnail and then use the Move Up or Move Down button to modify the order in which they automatically play on the DVD.

8. (Optional) Click the Options link to the immediate right of the Disc Title text box to open the DVD-Video Options dialog box, and then make any necessary changes to how the DVD plays — its aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9), for example, or its video format (NTSC or PAL) — before you click OK. If you’re making the DVD for a DVD player sold in the United States, you don’t need to change the Video Format option from NTSC to PAL.

• 9. Click Next to open the Ready to Burn to DVD screen in the Windows DVD Maker window.

• 10. Click the thumbnail with the type of menu style you want your DVD to use in the Menu Styles list box on the right side of Windows DVD Maker window. Note that you can click the Menu Text button to customize the text that appears on the buttons used by the menu style you select. You can also click the Customize button if you want to modify certain aspects of the menu style, including adding a foreground or background video as well as a menu audio track that plays until the user selects one of the menu options.

11. (Optional) Click the Preview button on the Windows DVD Maker window’s toolbar to preview it and then, after experimenting with the menu and previewing your video content, click OK.

Depending on the length of the DVD, it could take several minutes to more than an hour to create the final product.

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Combine Video Clips In Windows Live Movie Maker

Combine Video Clips In Windows Live Movie Maker

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How to combine two or more video clips in windows live movie maker 2011 if you want the video clips to combine together in Windows Live Movie Maker 2011. 

If you have worked with the previous version of Windows Movie Maker, the important change over the Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 is that, you wont find the timeline view. The time line view was removed by Microsoft in  Windows Live Movie Maker 2011.

Work Around:

The time line is removed. but the work has been simplified. If you want to combine the movie files, just  add the clips to your project and save the project as a movie the clips will be combined.

Follow this link to know how To Save Windows Live Movie Maker Project : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyqZm5MBc7o

And for your information, you could still install an earlier version of Movie Maker. No guarantees but the following download for an installable version of Vista Movie Maker 6 may be worth a try. *Proceed At Your Own Risk*

Warning! It's always a good idea to create a System Restore point before installing software or updates.

Windows Movie Maker Installer for Windows 7

http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=video#wmminst

Also Movie Maker 2.6 will run on Windows 7:

Windows Movie Maker 2.6 (this is similar to the Win XP version of Movie Maker)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=d6ba5972-328e-4df7-8f9d-068fc0f80cfc&displaylang=en

All the above steps have been tested with Windows 7. but if you download the Windows XP version, you may find after inserting about a dozen clips into the Timeline it may crash the Program to the Desktop. I have experienced that and it wont be an issue since the first solution will work in a better way.

Frequently Asked Problem:

After creating the Video, and burning the files to the Blu-ray disk,  it would not play on Blue-Ray Player (Sony TV and BD Player), for the TV.  It will be playing fine in the computer DVD Player. The TV DVD indicated that it couldn't read the Disk, but does read standard and BD DVDs as usual. 

I tried burning the Movie several different ways but got the same result.  Worked fine on the Computer but not on the TV Blue-Ray Player.  Now, I then tried using the Nero Vision Burning Program and the Movie played on everything (both the TV BD Player and the Computer.  I can continue to do this, but the Nero Program is clunky and does not have a variety of things that you can do relative to customization and what is there, is not inspiring.  I want to be able to use the On-Board Windows DVD burning Program because it seamlessly interfaces with Movie Maker, but my burned Movies must work with the TV BD Player.

1) Try the slowest possible burn speed...

2) Before burning...disable the video filters. See the following article for info:

Video filters in Windows DVD Maker: frequently asked questions

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Video-filters-in-Windows-DVD-Maker-frequently-asked-questions

If the 2.6 version crashed it's probably due to incompatible source files that were compatible with the later Windows Live version. If all you wish to do is combine the clips...the freeware Format Factory has a Video Joiner option that will join the files very quickly and may be worth a try Format Factory And for your information, you could still install an earlier version of Movie Maker. No guarantees but the following download for an installable version of Vista Movie Maker 6 may be worth a try. *Proceed At Your Own Risk*

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Format_Factory 

The 'direct link' is fastest. the file you want to download is : >FFSetup260.zip<.

Note: When installing...you may want to uncheck 'all' the boxes on the final screen.

• First you will need to unzip the file or just open the folder and drag FFSetup260.exe out of the folder and drop it on your desktop. Left click it to install.
• Next...after downloading and installing Format Factory...you may want to open the program and left click the 'Option' button on the toolbar and select an 'Output Folder' / Apply / OK.
• This is where you will find your files after they are converted. Once installed...open Format Factory...in the left pane...choose...Advanced / Video Joiner...
• Left click the Add File button and import your video clips. Choose an output format and left click OK.
• Left click the Start button on the toolbar and your
• video files will be combined.

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Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince | Gossip Girl Of The Wizard World

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince | Gossip Girl Of The Wizard World

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Harry Potter is very much a child of the millennium. In spite of existing in a world where 9/11 does not seem to have happened, Potter and his buddies have successfully ridden the information superhighway using the many-headed media hydra to great ef fect. 

Till 2000, Harry Potter and his adventures in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry were only followed by avid readers.

All changed in 2000 when the fourth book in the series, ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,’ was released to well-orchestrated media frenzy led by author J. K. Rowling’s revelation that one of the characters would be killed.

Since then there was no looking back. In 2001, the first Harry Potter movie, ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ was released instantly converting its lead actors (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint) into household names.

International events

The movie and books were media phenomena with each book and movie release becoming international events swamped by a tsunami of hype and hoopla. The hysteria touched an all-time high in July 2007, when the fifth instalment of the series, ‘Order of the Phoenix’ was released in theatres and the final book, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,’ hit the bookstands within a week of each other.

After that golden July (pun intended), all was quiet on the muggle front save for some exclusive, expensive first-edition releases from Rowling. The sixth movie, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,’ was originally supposed to be out last November. And now all who were suffering from withdrawal symptoms will get their fix of potion with the release of the movie on July 16.

For those who have just arrived on the planet, the books tell the story of Harry Potter, who on his 11th birthday finds out he is actually a wizard. As a baby, he defeated the dark lord, Voldemort. The seven books trace Harry’s life in the famous Hogwarts school, where he hones his skills to do a final battle with Voldemort.

While the books can be marvelled at for their inventiveness, imagination and unity of time, place and action, the same cannot be said about the films. The first two films directed by family-friendly Chris Columbus (known for the ‘Home Alone’ movies) were so worshipful of the source material that they felt like celluloid readings of the books.

‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ in 2004 saw a change of director and a dramatic change in palette. The brilliant Alfonso Cuaron took over the reins and brought his special brand of magic to the film. ‘Prisoner of Azkaban’ with its Marauders’ Map, the tragic Hippogriff, the enigmatic Sirius Black, the soul-sucking Dementors and the beloved staple of all sci-fi fantasies, time travel, was an enchanting adventure with a vigorous identity all of its own distinct from the novels.

‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ in 2005 was directed by Mike Newell who replaced Cuaron’s wild flights of fancy with a delicate sense of whimsy. While Harry was doing deadly tasks at the Tri-wizard tournament, he had to simultaneously perform the even more-terrifying job of asking a girl out. Newell who is known for his charming rom-coms such as ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ brought a feather-light touch to the franchise, which while not as mind-altering as Cuaron’s vision, was a welcome change from Columbus’ reverence.

The fifth movie, ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,’ directed by David Yates, was workman like. While there was no obsessive adherence to the source material, there were no inspired choices either. It almost seemed as if Yates had a check-list of Harry Potter regulars that he meticulously ticked off.

Yates now returns with the sixth instalment of the franchise, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,’ and is also going to direct the final movie, ‘Death Hallows’ which would be released in two parts in 2010 and 2011.

Apart from mind-blowing special effects and eye-popping creatures, the movies stand out for the supporting cast which features the best and brightest of British cinema from Ralph Feinnes, Kenneth Branagh, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris and Gary Oldman to Emma Thompson, Imelda Staunton and Helena Bonham-Carter. For the sixth edition, Jim Broadbent joins the happy family as potions Professor Horace Slughorn and Helen McCrory plays Narcissa Malfoy, mother to the slithery supercilious Draco. Wonder when Hugh Grant and the regal Dame Judi Dench would join the gang.

Yates has described ‘Half-Blood Prince’ as “romance, potions and rock ‘n’ roll.” With Harry having feelings for Ginny, Ron getting a girlfriend and Hermione realising her feelings for Ron, the movie promises to be the “Gossip Girl” of the wizard world! Abracadabra! Let the magic begin!

Review By - THE HINDU

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