Anyone with Windows movie maker

It can't output (easily) content that plays almost anywhere. This lesson is a little hard to learn but I moved on to Sony Vegas and a few Ulead programs years ago.

Bob

Movie Maker is a very simply, but reliable application for capturing, editing and making home movies. I have found it to be quite useful for the creation of basic home movies and I found it to be very intuitive and, again, very reliable (i.e. it's never crashed on me, while loads of other video capturing/editing software has)

The only down-side I have with Movie Maker is that it does not burn to DVD, but only to CD thus defeating the purpose of making movies as VCD (vidoe CD) is a pretty awful way to burn a video - the resulting video is very compressed and therefore not enjoyable to watch.

To burn your created movie to DVD you need to acquire another application that is specifically created for such work. Many are available out there including free ones. I would strongly urge you to consider looking over the Reviews section here on the CNET site for some guidance. I have been using Movie Maker to create most of my home movies and then using Pinnacle or WinDVD to actually burn the created movie to DVD. Either of these (and countless others) should provide you with the ability to burn a DVD and watch it on any modern (or recent) DVD player.