Submitting Animation

[ChewBacca]

I put the animation together in WMV, how do I get that into an ISO?

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by ChewBacca

I put the animation together in WMV, how do I get that into an ISO?

You'll need to use a DVD authoring program that will let you burn to an ISO instead of a physical disc.

[They want an encoded video DVD, and not simply the WMV file dropped into an ISO]

[NoQuestions]

If you guys need help, feel free to drop by CHS sometime! Good luck

[ChewBacca]

So I should just put it onto a DVD? I thought I was supposed to submit online... So confused!

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by ChewBacca

So I should just put it onto a DVD? I thought I was supposed to submit online... So confused!

Instead of burning to a physical DVD, you're "burning" to an ISO disc image, then uploading that through STIMS.

[ChewBacca]

So, how would I do that? Just click Burn DVD? and then go through that?

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by ChewBacca

So, how would I do that? Just click Burn DVD? and then go through that?

What program are you using to author the DVD? Does it have an option to create a disc image instead of a physical disc?

[A round-about way of doing this would be to burn a standard DVD and then use ImgBurn to create an ISO from that, but you should be able to do it in one step.

[ChewBacca]

Originally Posted by dcarr

What program are you using to author the DVD? Does it have an option to create a disc image instead of a physical disc?

[A round-about way of doing this would be to burn a standard DVD and then use ImgBurn to create an ISO from that, but you should be able to do it in one step.

I'm using Windows Movie Maker.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by ChewBacca

I'm using Windows Movie Maker.

What version? I didn't think Windows Movie maker had DVD authoring functionality.

[ChewBacca]

It can publish DVD's, I think the 2003 version is better actually. I think I'm using newest though.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by ChewBacca

It can publish DVD's, I think the 2003 version is better actually. I think I'm using newest though.

Okay, well here are two options:

• Burn a regular DVD with Movie Maker, then "rip" an ISO with ImgBurn.
• Use a different DVD authoring program like DVDStyler to take your WMV file and create an ISO of a video DVD

[DonRotolo]

Just to clarify, an ISO image is just exactly the same as what is burned to a DVD but saved on your hard disk as a file. You have to create it like that, you can't just copy the data off of the DVD. Most programs that can burn a DVD can also make an ISO file.

[dcarr]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Just to clarify, an ISO image is just exactly the same as what is burned to a DVD but saved on your hard disk as a file. You have to create it like that, you can't just copy the data off of the DVD. Most programs that can burn a DVD can also make an ISO file.

I hope I made this clear above

We use Encore (linked project from Premiere) which allows straight-to-ISO.

[dellagd]

Using Encore as well. It seems they wanted specifically a Region 1, so make sure you select that in the build options in encore. Boy, what a pain to find a program with that option (No way were missing out on a region code error)

[dellagd]

Just got word from our moderator and when they went to upload it gave them the option to use a .avi file instead of an iso.

Well, I guess I wont get that hour of my life back...