I am having a prob burning a DVD that I have on my hard drive. I can watch the DVD on the computer but I want to burn it to a DVD. I cannot find anything Dell Eddition Roxio Creator LE program that looks like it will allow me to do this. I have no prob copping a DVD to a DVD. I have a Dell 7RMF5BI w/dual drive.

Thanks for your time

rjb

The version supplied by Dell is a cut-down version of the suite - what may be missing I honestly don't know but the normal method would be to import the avi file in MyDVD and then render it. Either burn direct to DVD from that but personally I prefer to save the output to the hard drive first as an image and then open that with Disc Copier

Support for OEM versions (such as the Dell LE one) is supposed to be provided by the supplier but I have heard that Dell tries to shift that back to Roxio

It also depends on what you mean by "I have a DVD on my hard drive". Do you have a video file (.mpg, .avi, etc) a DVD image file (.iso), or a DVD Video folder set (VIDEO_TS)? Usually the program that you use to copy a DVD disc to a DVD disc would be the one you use to copy an image file or video folders to a disc. Altho, being an "LE" stripped down version, it may not have come with those options available.

It is a VIDEO_TS file. I am new with trying Roxio. I tried the DATA copy and put in the file but when I tried to copy the info it showed that I was "over 3 GB". The movie was about 3.5 hrs long. I think I have to take some of the files out of the File and use two disks or try tro get a compression program for the long movie. Does this sound right?

thanks for your time

rjb

Yoiu have to forget all about the size in bytes when working with video dvds and start thinking in duration

Basically one hour movie = one DVD in good quality. You MAY get 2 hours, but quality will fall