MovieMaker does create mpeg-2 files by using the export on the first screen
"EvanBarr" <a@b.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft DVD Maker can not burn to image file.
>
> I spent a long time working on a multi-disk, Microsoft Movie Maker project
> only to find that I need to use another program to produce the type of DVD
> that I want. It is critical that I get an MPEG-2 file from Movie Maker so
> that I don't lose any quality. The only way to do that is to send the
> project to DVD Maker and burn directly to DVD. That would be a waste of
> disks and time. I know that virtual DVD writers are available for
> non-Windows OS. There's got to be one for Vista.
>
> On top of that, I actual prefer doing my editing in Movie Maker instead of
> the other products I have tried. But Movie Maker does not directly
> produce MPEG-2 output and DVD Maker is a brain-dead toy.
>
>
> "Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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>> "EvanBarr" <a@b.com> wrote in message
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>>> There seem to be quite a few free and inexpensive virtual DVD programs
>>> that
>>> let you treat ISO files (and other formats) as if it was just another
>>> DVD
>>> player connected to your computer.
>>>
>>> As far as I am able to tell, none of these will allow you to create a
>>> blank
>>> ISO file that you can then write to using your standard DVD burning
>>> software. I did see some programs that will create an ISO from your
>>> source
>>> files but that is not the same as a virtual DVD-rw drive. I need to be
>>> able
>>> to burn to the virtual drive using my existing software.
>>>
>>> Has anyone come across such a program?
>>
>>
>> I doubt that anything like that would exist, as it is in the realms of a
>> CD/DVD burning program, and not a virtual CD/DVD program that would
>> simulate reading image files.
>>
>> I just use Nero, which can burn to images, as other burning programs can
>> surely do.
>>
>> ss.
>>
>