Windows Movie Maker/DVD Maker

[Captain X]

I'm trying to burn an AVI file onto a DVD that I made in Movie Maker in a widescreen aspect ratio. When I export it to DVD maker and create the menu for it, then preview the DVD, everything looks fine. When I burn the DVD and put it in my player, the image for the movie has been squished down into a regular TV aspect ratio. Does anyone know what the problem might be and how I might fix it?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Unfortunately, my laptop is the machine with the DVD burner and that's out being fixed, so I can't look at it; offhand, I can't think of why that would happen.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

Well if it helps, you're not alone. I've had the same problem on every .avi I try to burn with DVD Maker even when setting it to 16:9 ratio.

Edit: There seems to be a solution, found this on windowsdvdmaker.com

1. open Movie Maker.

2. Import video to Movie Maker.

3. Drag and Drop Movie into 'Video' section of storyboard.

4. Click Tools > Options > Aspect Ratio (set it to what you want.

5. Check preview in movie maker to see if its what you want (generally, if the source file has ratio of height to width of 1.33 [i.e. 4:3] use 4:3 - if larger, 1.75/1.8333/2.25 [i.e. 16:9 or greater] use 16:9

6. if satisfied click Publish To... 'DVD'

7. Movie Maker asks you to save the project and it will run DVD maker.

8. Save your project.

9. DVD maker boots automatically and Movie Maker closes automatically.

10. DVD maker loads your project file (.MSWMM)

11. check the DVD options and it should be the same as you set in Movie Maker. If not, repeat the process from step 1, do not change it in DVD maker - it won't change the option.

12. Burn.

 

[JustAFriend]

Movie Maker = Taco truck of video editors.

You can get Sony's Vegas Movie Studio with DVD Architect for less than $50 (sometimes FAR less... saw it for $29 recently) and it will do HDTV.

 

[Captain X]

I don't suppose you can customize the DVD menu with your own pictures and music with those, can you?

Oh, BTW, as it turns out right after I posted this thread I tried it again and it worked just fine.