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DVD Flick is the all-in-one DVD Authoring, ISO image creating, DVD burning tool. It is free software, which convert any videos on your computer to DVD, including AVI to DVD, FLV to DVD, HDMOV to DVD, MKV to DVD, MJPG to DVD, MPG to DVD, M2V to DVD, MP4 to DVD, M4V to DVD, NSV to DVD, NUT to DVD, QT to DVD, MOV to DVD, RM to DVD, SMK to DVD, OGM to DVD, WMV to DVD, ASF to DVD, 3GP to DVD, 3G2 to DVD.

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By default, Windows XP and Vista have Windows Movie Maker installed for creating photo slideshow and editing slideshow videos. However, there is no option in Windows Movie Maker to burn your finished slideshow video to DVD. This article shows how to burn Windows Movie Maker video into DVD with DVD Flick for free. There also more comprehensive software that could create photo slideshow and directly burn slideshow onto DVD, see here

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Burn Windows Movie Maker video to DVD with DVD Flick System Requirement to use DVD Flick

- Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP(Professional or Home) and Vista. – CPU: Intel Pentium III 1GHz and above or AMD Athlon equivalent. – Memory: 64 MB RAM (128MB Recommended). – Free Space: 1G or more, depending on your video size. – DVD burner

What you need

1. DVD Flick (together with ImgBurn) 2. Windows Movie Maker

Step 1: Save edited movie from Windows Movie Maker

To save a movie on your computer, On the File menu, click Save Movie File, and then click My computer. or In the Movie Tasks pane, under Finish Movie, click Save to my computer. At last, follow the on-screen instructions to finish. This will export your modified movie to a Windows Movie Maker file, which will end in .WMV.

Step 2: Convert WMV to DVD format using DVD Flick

Next, convert Windows Movie Maker video in WMV format to DVD format.

1. Add Titles (WMV videos)

Titles are DVD structure name, also known as Chapter. Each title will be presented with one thumbnail on DVD menu. Note the left side bar will show you the percentage of the DVD, so it’s really easy to figure out if you added too much video or not.

2. Convert WMV to DVD files

Once you have added all of your Windows Movie Maker videos, go ahead and choose a destination folder for the converted DVD at the very bottom. By default, this folder will be completely erased every time you create a new DVD from DVD Flick. Note that it can take up to 4.7GB of space, so you to choose a drive that has lots of free space. Click on the Create DVD button at the very top side. A dialog will prompt if you want to proceed and that the data in that directory will be deleted. Then sit back and wait as it converts the videos into the DVD format. This can take up a good amount of time depending on how fast your computer is and how big the videos are. That is to say, the time will vary. So wait patiently. After done, you will got a “dvd” folder containing two sub-folders: Video_ts and Audio_ts

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Step 3: Burn files to DVD using ImgBurn

After the Windows Movie Maker videos are converted, you can then use the free burning program ImgBurn (comes with DVD Flick by default) to burn the files to DVD. It usually locates under /DVD Flick/imgburn/imgburn.exe (DVD Flick installation folder). Note that this is not a DATA DVD, it will be a video DVD that you can play in any standard DVD player like any other DVD movie. Follow these instructions while opening ImgBurn. 1. Click on the Write Files/Folders to Disc option. 2. Now click on the “Browse for a folder” icon at the right side tool bar. 3. In the pop-up dialog, locate the folder on your hard drive where the files were exported from DVD Flick. Basically select the folder that is called “dvd”, which is the direct parent of both the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. 4. Insert a blank DVD and then click on the Build It button at the bottom. It’s the one with the folder and the green icon pointing to the DVD. All Done! Once DVD burning has completed, you can insert it into your DVD player and you should now watch your Windows Movie Maker video on TV! Enjoy!

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New movie trailers are a main part of a studio’s marketing strategy, so that it can generate interest in peoples’ minds about the film. New movie trailers are also known as previews, which you can see in movie theatres before a film starts. In today’s world, marketing is a very important part of any business. If you can market your product perfectly, it can be a deciding factor in whether your product is going to be successful or not. Just like that, while making a movie, the cast and the story are not everything; it also needs a lot of publicity and advertising.

Today you can watch a movie trailer in many formats. You can watch it in a theatre before your movie starts; you can watch it on the internet, or sometimes you can even watch it on your mobile phone. And no matter where you are watching, one thing is common in every case, the shots. Trailers are usually the best scenes and best shots from the movie, so that you can get an idea of the storyline and about the drama too. Sometimes, new movie trailers are just a few scenes from the movie itself, and sometimes the crew takes some additional shots to make the new movie trailers interesting and eye catching.

Nowadays, there are even many promotional songs that you can see in new movie trailers, which you will be unable to find in the movie itself. They are specially choreographed for the promotional parts. In today’s world, people put extra stress on making good upload download trailers. The market trend says that, to make your movie successful, you need to make a fantastic package, which corresponds to even the promotional parts. You can sometimes see that some types of questions appear in the screen, while you are watching the trailer, and this is just to attract your eye to that specific movie. Also you can get to know some interesting goofs and funny things about the movie. These are all part of the promotion. They try to make the people feel good about the upcoming movie; so that more and more will people come to the theatre and watch this movie.

Today, because of technology, even movie makers are making a lot of profit from it. Now you can download new movie trailers from various sites, or from the personalized movie sites. The movie makers today have a main target audience, and they are the youth. They try to reach the youth first through their various promotional strategies to make their movie a successful one. After the first few days, the scenarios usually change, but before that, sometimes the first few days matter a lot in deciding a film’s fate.

Today, for shooting the promotional part or developing the trailers, there are many technicians available, who can give your trailers an absolute different and attractive look. New movie trailers can be made before the movie is complete or even after the movie making is over. But the bottom line is that the new movie trailer should be attractive enough to make the viewers watch the movie.

Nowadays, there is a ton of video editing software flooding in the market like Adobe Premiere Elements, Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, Pinnacle Studio. Windows Movie Maker is one of them. It might not be the best, but it’s the most easily accessible tool for us — developed by Microsoft, comes preinstalled in your computer, so there is no need to search, download and install.  I would say there is no other better choice but Windows Movie Maker to edit YouTube video for people that are not proficient in computer.

In this tutorial, I would illustrate how you can edit YouTube video in Windows Movie Maker.

1. Download YouTube videos

Video downloader – a free Firefox plug-in, also a quick and convenient way to extract your favorite YouTube videos using this add-on. Besides YouTube, this plug-in supports other video streaming sites including Metacafe, Google Videos and Dailymotion, among others.

Step 1 Free download and install the Video downloader extension tool for Firefox here

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

Step 2 After installation, restart your Firefox browser, go to a YouTube video page, you can see a small icon on the status bar at the bottom of the Firefox window; just click it to download the video you are currently watching. This will then open up video downloader. Simply click the “Download Link” tab to whichever videos you wish to download.

2. Convert YouTube video format for Windows Movie Maker

Before import YouTube video to Windows Movie Maker, there is one more thing we need to do, that is convert YouTube video from flv to any format that Windows Movie Maker supports. Below are some videos formats for Windows Movie Maker.

Video  .asf,?.avi,?.m1v,?.mp2,?.mp2v,?.mpe,?.mpeg,?.mpg,?.mpv2, .wm, .wmv

Step 1 Download a video converter, install and run it.

I am an early adopter of iSkysoft Video Converter. Its friendly interface with brief instruction for user makes me operate it easily. Best of all, it can convert multiple video and audio formats with high quality.

AVI and WMV are two major input formats for Windows Movie Maker. Both have their merits.

AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave. Being a container format, AVI can include both video and audio, allowing synchronous playback. AVI files can be found online as music videos, TV shows, streaming video and can even be downloaded as a full length motion picture.

WMV stands for Windows Media Video. This file type was developed by Microsoft specifically for streaming; however, it can also be saved to a hard drive or disc media for playback with Windows Media Player and other types of players such as Winamp, DivX and VLC player. The current version of WMV is WMV9 which includes the feature of a high compression rate in order to fit large videos into a small amount of storage space, making it a great format for transferring over the internet.

Below listed some formats supported by iSkysoft Video Converter at its “Convert to” drop-down button.



Step 3:  Click “Start”to begin the conversion.

3. Import YouTube video to Windows Movie Maker

Open Windows Movie Maker; go straight to the “Movie tasks”, “Import video”.



Now, just add different elements including video transitions, video effects, titles and credits to make an incredible video!

4. Conclusion

Overall, it’s a simple process to edit a YouTube video in Windows Movie Maker. However, it’s a great job to make a good video that needs time and patience.