Question about burning movie to cds

[Bronxkid]

I have a movie in avi format that is very good resolution. I wanted to burn it to cd. I have nero 5.5 and easy cd creator. I was wondering what's the best way to burn it to cd. In roxio there's no option for burning other than mpeg when I choose burn video. In nero, video option gives me the choice of burning in vcd format or svcd (which it says i have to have a plugin for). How would I burn it in avi format to cd? If i use convert to vcd, will the quality be changed? thanks.

 

[IamDavid]

Just burn a regular data CD to keep it in AVI form.. Converting it to mpg will allow you to watch it on your home DVD player but will degrade the quality allot.

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: Bronxkid
I have a movie in avi format that is very good resolution. I wanted to burn it to cd. I have nero 5.5 and easy cd creator. I was wondering what's the best way to burn it to cd. In roxio there's no option for burning other than mpeg when I choose burn video. In nero, video option gives me the choice of burning in vcd format or svcd (which it says i have to have a plugin for). How would I burn it in avi format to cd? If i use convert to vcd, will the quality be changed? thanks.

Do you care about playing it in a dvd player? If not just burn it as data to a cd. That way you lose nothing. If you convert it to VCD you will lose quality but it will be playable in a dvd player.

 

[Bronxkid]

One time I used cd creator to burn a movie as data and it no longer played after buring it. Maybe a bad burn or a bad original avi file I guess.

 

[IamDavid]

One time I used cd creator to burn a movie as data and it no longer played after burning it. Maybe a bad burn or a bad original avi file I guess.

Or just a bad burning program. Go with Nero and you should have no prob..