Technical/Creative type question

[minimetoo26]

My son has made a movie. It is in Windows Movie Maker format, and he has transferred it onto a thumb drive to bring to class. Kinko's would be able to transfer it to a data DVD, but not one we could play in a DVD player. I don't even have a DVD burner, so that's a step up from what I could do.

So. Is there an external DVD burner drive and software that could do the job? Keeping in mind this is for a teenager, but the movie was done for science class and I like encouraging this kinda stuff.

[littlebeast13]

My son has made a movie.

Starring Mom as Evil Villainess #11.....

lb13

[minimetoo26]

My son has made a movie.

Starring Mom as Evil Villainess #11.....

lb13

The acting credits on it are Andrew, The Decapitated Baby, and Walter, the Stunt Dummy. It illustrates Newton's Laws of Motion.

He had way too much fun dropping things off the balcony and crashing remote control cars.

He set it to Aerosmith's Love in an Elevator (the up and down was good, and he synched that "going doowwnn" part to when he dropped the entire bucket of balls after dropping two unequal sized ones in pairs to show how they'd hit at the same time. He made a funny blooper reel at the end, and closed with him demonstrating centripetal force by swinging a bucket of water over his head, but in the blooper the bucket had stopped while overhead and drenched him. He did a great job.

It could have been done with a group, but I know if Peter and Stijn had joined him he still would have done all the work and I'd have more mess and no groceries left....

[littlebeast13]

Things sure have come a long way since the days of the clunky camcorder and VHS tapes...

During the summer of 1994 I wrote a bunch of commercial parodies and had my sisters act them out while I videotaped. Hopefully that tape's still in playable shape since it also has my tour of the 1993 flood (With my Dad's wonderful uncensored narration as he drove all of us plus my grandma around in the van), the ice storm that hit that Thanksgiving, the lunar eclipse the following week, and the annular solar eclipse the following May...

lb13

[VAdame]

Back in the mid-90's, when our camcorder was brand-new & state-of-the-art, the kids made a bunch of movies.

the 2 I remember best are:

Barbie Anaconda! -- in which Barbie & her friends, in the red Mustang convertible, are menaced by a big (rubber) snake.

Candy Indulges Her Herding Instincts -- in which Candy, who was my stuffed sheepdog from when I was little, "herds" Karen's feet, which are wearing Lambchop slippers! It was quite original, and includes lines like, "C'mon Candy -- whip those sheep into shape!"

Candy:


The funny thing about Candy -- she's so little! I remember her as being huge -- near big as me! Of course, the fact that my Godmother gave her to me for my 1st birthday may have something to do with that

I'll have to see if I can find the tapes & get Karen & Johnny to put 'em in a computer format.

[traininvain]

My son has made a movie. It is in Windows Movie Maker format, and he has transferred it onto a thumb drive to bring to class. Kinko's would be able to transfer it to a data DVD, but not one we could play in a DVD player. I don't even have a DVD burner, so that's a step up from what I could do.

So. Is there an external DVD burner drive and software that could do the job? Keeping in mind this is for a teenager, but the movie was done for science class and I like encouraging this kinda stuff.

I just helped my daughter make a movie on Windows Movie Maker and ran into the same problem not realizing that just because I burned it onto a DVD it wouldn't play on a DVD player. I should have made the movie with Roxio Creater, but unfortunately I didn't. Haven't heard from her teacher about it, so I guess it's OK.

Good luck, and let me know if you find a way to transfer it.

[minimetoo26]

Looks like the Sonic or Roxio My DVD program is designed for exactly what I need, and it comes with some external drives. I may be able to do this for under $100 and still have something that will last more than a week....

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Looks like the Sonic or Roxio My DVD program is designed for exactly what I need, and it comes with some external drives. I may be able to do this for under $100 and still have something that will last more than a week....

I have both programs on my computer and they are fairly easy to use.

[Bob Juch]

Looks like the Sonic or Roxio My DVD program is designed for exactly what I need, and it comes with some external drives. I may be able to do this for under $100 and still have something that will last more than a week....

That's my recommendation.

[earendel]

Things sure have come a long way since the days of the clunky camcorder and VHS tapes...

And even longer since the days of the 8mm movie camera.

During the summer of 1994 I wrote a bunch of commercial parodies and had my sisters act them out while I videotaped. Hopefully that tape's still in playable shape since it also has my tour of the 1993 flood (With my Dad's wonderful uncensored narration as he drove all of us plus my grandma around in the van), the ice storm that hit that Thanksgiving, the lunar eclipse the following week, and the annular solar eclipse the following May...

lb13

My brother and his best friend had an 8mm camera and did a lot of things with it, including commercial parodies (they also did phone pranks and recorded themselves and the unsuspecting caller long before "Crank Yankers"). One of their commercials was for "Burflakes - breakfast of morning sickness". It featured one of them eating some concoction out of a bowl - I think it was some actual cereal but instead of milk they used water with a little milk for coloring (although the film was B&W). The "spokesman" took a bite and promptly spit it out because it was so nasty tasting.

On a more serious note elwing's senior honors English class got the opportunity to make movies as a project, so she and her friends did a Gothic horror feature; regrettably the print was lost in our fire.