Hey Techies?

[dmuja]

Whats best way to take a high rez/high quality slideshow presentation from its current ".wmv" format and get it on to a common "dvd" disk playable by anyone with a dvd player?

 

I don't want to lose either sound or picture quality if thats possible.

 

Simplicity and quality are the priorities, followed by cost and timeliness.

 

I don't want to depend on or lug around a puter and digital projector etc.. just to play wmv files!

 

Any ideas? Programs? Suggestions? for a not-so-techie?

 

Thanx

 

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[fenderfour]

Adobe premiere elements can be had for $60 online. It will translate the file for you.

[dmuja]

Thanks FF,

 

I wonder what this conversion might do to the quality of picture and sound vs the original file format. I guess Ill just have to give one of these progs a go and find out.

 

[JayB]

I use the "Digital Media Converter" program for this kind of thing, which is available for around $40, and allows you to specify the format and the size/quality of the output file.

 

It's worked pretty well for me so far, with the only caveat being that huge files take a fair amount of time to convert.

 

Available here:

 

http://www.deskshare.com/dmc.aspx

[olyclimber]

Doesn't the Windows Movie Maker or whatever its called (I'm a Mac snob now) that comes free with windows allow you to burn wmv directly to disk (CD or DVD)?

[fenderfour]

Thanks FF,

 

I wonder what this conversion might do to the quality of picture and sound vs the original file format. I guess Ill just have to give one of these progs a go and find out.

 

When you export the video you can select varying quality and bitrates. I talso renders and burns straight to DVD. You should be able to keep all of the quality.