Trouble exporting movie with chapters & title

[Mary]

I have been trying to use Movie Factory and have imported my .mpg video file. Then I add chapters and the title, when I try to do the quick export to my hard drive, it comes through so I can view it on Windows Media Player, but only the original video is there, but no title or chapters. What am I doing wrong? Any advice? This is my first time using this program and I'm getting terribly frustrated. Thanks for any suggestions.

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

You're exporting the video clip. All this does is create another video file. You need to Burn a disc, create DVD Folders, or a disc image file (ISO). Any one of those will of course include the menus and chapters.

[Mary]

I am having trouble burning discs on my computer. I am trying to save the whole project in .mpg so I can save to a flash drive and take to a friends computer to burn. When I save the project in DVD folders, it remains in movie factory file format. Is there no way to save the project, with titles and chapters to mpg format? Not sure about how to save to .iso and if so, how then to convert to .mpg I'm new to all of this, just trying to finish up my niece's wedding video.

[Ken Berry]

Mary -- Movie Factory is essentially an "authoring" program, with a few editing features thrown in. Authoring means that you take an original video (or in some cases, video project), construct a menu and burn it to a disc -- either DVD or Blu-Ray or something like that. It does not produce a new video file with menu included in the sense you appear to mean.

The way it can produce a new file is using either the DVD Folders or Disc Image .iso file that you have already discovered. The DVD Folders option is not, as you surmise, in MF format. It is in international DVD format, including the all important Video_TS Folder. If you look at a commercial DVD in your computer's My Computer, you will see it has two folders on it: Audio_TS and Video_TS. The former is usually empty, but the latter contains all the video converted into a format that stand-alone DVD players can read (with extensions such as .vob, .ifo and .bup). So in MF, producing DVD Folders converts your original video file and menu into those files as well, ready for burning to a DVD. But to do that, you need a program like Nero to be able to complete the burning if you don't allow MF to actually burn a disc from your project. Similarly, if you produce an .iso file, you need a program like Nero to burn it to disc.

But can I ask why, if you have been using MF, you don't burn your project directly to DVD and instead want to burn it at a friend's place?

[teknisyan]

Hello Mary,

Ken and Ron are correct. You will need to create a ISO file in order for you to see how the menus works and not create a video file. To create a ISO file, here's what you need to do.

when on step 3 (Output), simply mark the checkbox "Create Dis Image". Click on the folder icon on the right side to set the filename. Then uncheck the "Create to disc" and "Archive images of slideshows" options. Then click Burn to create the disc image.

[Mary]

I've tried to burn the video directly from MF, but it says "burn failed". For some reason, it's not letting me burn DVD in my DVD drive. I've tried Movie Factory and DVD Factory Pro and I get the same failure to burn. So guess there is an issue with my burner. This is why I need to save to a flash drive so I can burn the file at my friends house. So if I understand correctly, if I can save the .ISO file to the flash drive, I can then use MF or Nero on my friends computer to burn it. Or can it be burned directly from flash drive to a dvd? I really appreciate everyone's suggestions.