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5:31 am
Could someone help me with the step by step procedure to get a DVD that will play in a home DVD player from a SDHC chip in your card reader to a DVD using Windows DVD maker? I have bought convertion programs, spent hours and hours and I am stuck. It shouldn't be this hard but I am the one to blame. I am not doing something correct.
Thank you for your help,
Tom
11:30 am
July 2, 2010
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If you have Windows Vista or Windows 7, open DVDMaker
Then click the button to 'Add Items'
Navigate to the SD card and the folder with the pictures in it – usually DCIM…
You probably want to change your view to medium or large icons, then you can select the pictures you want .. Ctrl Click to select multiple … Click Add
Click Next
Choose a menu style from the right (this might take some experimenting, pick one, then click 'Preview' at the top, notice the 'Play' link)
When you have a menu style you like, put a DVD (we recommend DVD-R, maybe +R if you're including video, but not RW) in the drive and click Burn.
The resulting disk *should* be viewable on a TV/DVD player.
Sometimes DVD players of different ages can be problematic. See this past Geeks on Tour article on Burning DVDs: http://www.geeksontour.com/new…..080421.htm
Let me know how it goes … this could be a good topic for a 'Show-Me-Video'
4:18 am
Chris,
Thank you for your help. I am trying to make a home video straight from the SDHC card to a DVD that can be viewed on our home DVD player. The reason I want to do that is so I will not have to store the recorded video on my hard drive. It just goes straight to DVD and done but I am having very little success doing so. I bought both – R and + R DVD's so I am ready for what ever I will need. I have been using Movie Maker but would like to use DVD Maker because I am not editing. That being said, what would be the step by step for that process? Same as your last post? That would be great if you could do a “Show-Me-Video”! I am making videos of soccer games and trying to make a DVD of each game for me and one for the coach to teach the players from so I need to be able to do it fairly quickly and not just a data disk because he views it on a big screen.
Thanks for your help,
Tom
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