steve-nh

Got it. did a test run tonight using WMML and worked great except for the quality of WMV files. Gotta get recopying to DV AVI. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction guys.

Thanks Ianymaty; I guess I didn't mention....I have been trying to use Image Burn for this task but no success and ended up with all these questions. Is image burn the right tool for this job or should I stick with Movie maker?

Thanks for the reply's. Some good info here. So I guess I should re-copy the tapes in DV AVI in order to preserve the existing quality. Ugh...I was afraid of that. Good info on the RW disks. I will buy some High Quality DVD-R disks to burn to. I do have Windows 7 on my home computer with Moveie maker live and it's DVD maker program. Will these be any use to me? BOCO - your english is quite good. You mention "true" DVD...Please explain. I'm a complete newbie to this. Also what do you mean by DVD authoring program. Can you name one thats inexpensive. Oh yeah and whats the deal with double layer vs single layer and do I need to concern myself with this?

I seached for this but I am very confused as to what I need to do. Nothing fancy or out of the ordinary. I am trying to tranfer my Hi 8mm tapes to DVD so we can watch them on the TV thru a Sony Blueray player. HI 8 recorder is on it's way out but still plays the tapes. I have tranfered the tapes to Hard drive using Windows movie maker so now I have 1 file for each tape with the extension .WMV. Questions: 1. I have downloaded image burn so do I use "image" to dvd or "file" to DVD? 2. Do these .WMV files need to be converted to something else? If so what file type? 3. Is there a special type of disk to use? Tryed DVD-RW and DVD+R's 4. Single layer DVD or Double layer DVD? Very confused and would appreciate any help you can give me.