Third party tools, such as Media Coder, often do a very poor (low quality) job of converting Photo Story wmv files - Windows Movie Maker does a far better job of converting into an intermediate .avi format (although this will be some 30 times larger than the original wmv) which many DVD Authoring packages will accept as input.
[4] The chief finding of that research was that people narrated better stories when they moved their hands, made gestures and pointed at their images.
[5] This made the narration less spontaneous and the resulting stories less interesting if people were unable to express themselves clearly.
Photo Story was not included with Windows XP, though it was and continues to be made available as a free download to authenticated users.
The chargeable 'Roxio' plug-in (now owned by Sony) allows users to 'burn' their completed 'story' direct to a DVD or CD.
Sonic MyDVD (v5.5 or higher) is required if you want to edit the disc and add more stories or movies, thus more available storage.
If a smaller crop or zoom is required, significantly better results will be achieved by resizing the original in some third-party application (e.g. PaintShop Pro, PhotoShop) first.