super newbie here with ?'s

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  1. 87charger

    87charger Member

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    Hey all I don't even know if I'm in the right spot or not, but I do know generally these boards are much more informative than the customer support lines.
    I just recently purchase a sony handycam and got the movie burned onto a disk and the only thing I can watch it on in the house is my computer which it is already stored on. I have 3 different brands of dvd players and none of them recognize the disk. Can anyone out there help with a suggestion?

    Thanks, Darren
     
  2. Dunker

    Dunker Regular member

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    My guess is that your recorder records in the VR format, as opposed to creating VOB files. VR format video files will have the extension .VRO.

    These are MPEG-2 files and can easily be converted into fully-compliant DVDs by simply running them through an authoring program. SUPER, Ulead MovieFactory and Womble MPEG Video Wizard will handle this. The only thing you might want to do is add chapter marks and maybe a menu. The nice thing about Womble is that it will not try to re-encode the file, which will cause quality loss and take hours, but, rather, will write a proper DVD to your hard disk in about 10 minutes, which can then be burned to DVD. SUPER and also Ulead, at least some older versions, required a bit of fidgeting with bitrates and framerates i.e. you have to make sure you do not change anything. There are also lots of other authoring programs. SUPER
     
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    I use Pinnacle 10 you can do any thing you want with your home movies and yes make great looking movies that plays on stand alone dvd players
     
  4. Berryone

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    I would try pinnacle 10. It's a great program. It lets you do a lot of really nice things to your home videos. Well Worth the $$.
     

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