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About Brittanie Flegle
Expertise
Can answer questions on: Video compression, best video equipment, consumer's guide to electronics, best computers to buy for video editing at home, how to use Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Premiere Pro, setting up your Mac or PC for video editing, how to set-up an editing bay, using Photoshop for video graphics, how to create easy video transitions, how to create a DVD menu in DVD Studio Pro, how to use iDVD, compressing for the web, exporting for TV, HD vs Standard, 4:3 vs 16:9 sequence settings, embedding different sequence settings, ripping DVDs, encoding DVD footage into editable format for FCP, etc.

Experience
Videographer and Graphic Designer at MindBites, Inc. www.MindBites.com Freelance Home Video/DVD Editor Freelance DVD Menu Designer Freelance Logo Designer

Organizations
AIGA, Dorkbot, SXSW Interactive Panels Committee

Publications
MindBites blog, MindBites forums

Education/Credentials
University of Texas at Austin Radio-Television-Film Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration Certificate, current student at Austin Community College taking classes in both Motion Graphics and Interactive Media series

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Home Video/DVD - My DVD player cant play the DVD that I burned with nero.

Expert: Brittanie Flegle - 10/10/2009

Question
Hello Miss Brtitannie...I've burned a dvd-RW using nero 8 which contains some .avi movies. I want to fit all my avi. movies in one DVD-RW and play it in my DVD player that would be displayed in my TV but the DVD player didn't recognized the dvd that I've made. I've chosen "Make Data DVD" when burning with Nero so that I can burn as many .avi movies that would utilize the big storage capacity of a DVD disk. I never tried using DVD writer before but I've already tried burning several CD-R/RW which contains .avi files using my old CD writer and it works perfectly on my DVD player. My DVD player supports DVD-RW as well as DVD-R and other...I would like to know why my DVD player cant recognize the DVD-RW that I made? How can I make a DVD that contains many .avi videos which can be played in my DVD player..pls help..God Bless!

Answer
Hi John,

I can definitely answer your question. Data DVDs are for computer use only. They are for storing media only and unfortunately, not for instant playback on a DVD player. The only way to view all of your .avi movies on one DVD is to compress them and burn them to a DVD for video or with a DVD menu. This means that you have to use a DVD authoring program like Windows DVD Maker or iDVD, depending on if you're using a PC or MAC, respectively.

I hope this helps!

Brittanie

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