wmv

Well it turns out that I didn't give the newly created wmv files a chance.

On their first run through they play in a stuttered fashion with vision pausing and then skipping ahead to try and catch up with the audio ...

But on subsequent viewings everything straightens itself out!

So it appears that I can make the DVD's that I want to, in Windows DVD maker and mix digital camera videos with digital camera still shots.

I have already backed everything up now so I will not redo it for the sake of putting video and photos together ... but for the next one I attempt ... which will be photos (and video) from 2009 I will have a go.

I also discovered that in picasa I can quickly and easily create a little video made up of photos and it automatically saves it as a wmv file (which is how I stumbled onto the fact that my wmv actually does play properly after the first time).

Picasa also seems to allow you to quickly burn a cd or dvd using photos so I may play with that at some stage ... although I will admit that having spent so much time using and working out windows DVD maker I am not sure that I want to try too many others.

My computer also has cyberlink dvd suite which looks pretty good but perhaps a bit complicated ... allows you to slice video etc. And another program which is similar and again looks a bit complicated is windows movie maker.