ok, my friend edited his spring break footage in windows movie maker.. so its a .wmv file. he converted it to a .avi file, but now its 20gigs. how do we burn any file onto a dvd so we can watch it??!

directions specifically possibly?

help please, fast h:

 

he needs to encode it again and shrink it down. it's too big.

 

how do ya shrink it down? will it be an option when he does it?

 

reduce the resolution or use a codec that makes the file smaller. I'm not much help since I stopped doing all this about 10months ago.

 

windows movie maker doesnt have an option to compress the file as an .avi.. you can only save it as a .avi, or like a million different types of .wmv's

pisssssed

 

time to get a different encoding software.

 

dvdsanta can convert it into dvd vob files but it takes forever. then you can use dvdshrink

 

try WinAvi. It's pretty fast and you can encode with a variety of codecs. Quality is decent also.

or try tmpgenc.

 

tmpg will let you do mpeg2 for 30 days

after that you have to *cough* buy it *cough*

 

Thats the best proggy for encoding and such. I tried dvdsanta and all I have is a bunch of coasters,.. which sux cause I don't drink. but it is easy to use.
I used TMPGENC plus/author and it worked in one try.Here's
all the help you will ever need....