[X4U] Movie to DVD

[Nick Scalise]

On Aug 23, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Jim Dean wrote:

> My daughter was married recently and the wedding taped. She has  
> brought the
> file into her computer and it is now a windows media player file.
>
> The question: How can this be transformed into a DVD that can be  
> played on
> your everyday household DVD player.
>
> TIA for any and all assistance.

So, her computer is a Windows unit, yes?

Unfortunately, there's not much you can do with a Windows Media  
Player file. Some folks have had some luck with WMV's with a  
shareware app called FFMpeg, but it is not an intuitive, Mac like app.

What is the original source of the movie? Is it VHS tape? MiniDV  
tape? DVD?

Your best bet would be to forget the WMV and re-import the original  
footage into your Mac, you can then edit and export to DVD much  
easier from the clean movie file.

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Nick Scalise
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