You have finished your masterpiece! You are ready to share it with others. In the digital world, there are many options for getting your movie out there.

Burn it to a DVD
With Adobe® Premiere® Elements and a computer with a DVD burner, you can make your own DVDs, which can be played on almost all modern DVD players. Blank DVDs are about $1 each, making it possible for you to share your video masterpieces with anyone who has a DVD player. Some older DVD players, however, may have problems viewing a burned DVD.

Send it in an e-mail
E-mailing your movie is a fast and inexpensive way to distribute your movie, but you will have to compress your movie to make the movie file smaller before you send it. Your editing software, like Adobe Premiere Elements, will reduce the size of the movie file for you, but, in doing so, it also reduces the quality of the picture and shows the movie in a smaller window.

Post it on a web page
With Adobe® GoLive® CS, you can also post your compressed movie file to a web page. If your intended audience has high-speed Internet access, the quality of the picture on a web page can be better than that in an e-mail because you will not have to compress it as much.

Put it back on the digital video camera
Another option you have is to put the movie back in the digital video camera. Saving it back to your camera is a good way to back up your movie, using a MiniDV tape. Also, when it goes back to tape, there is no compression so there is no loss in quality.

To play it back from a MiniDV tape, you can then use your digital video camera like a VCR and plug the camera into your TV. The difficulty here is having to plug your video camera to the TV each time you want to watch a tape. Unfortunately, there are not as many inexpensive MiniDV tape decks as there are VCR and DVD players; otherwise, saving your movie back to the MiniDV tape would make a lot more sense.

Copy it to VHS tape
You can move your film to VHS if you copy the movie back to your camera first. Then, using the same cable you would use to plug the digital video camera into your TV, you plug it instead into a VCR and press play on the camera and record on the VCR. Your movie will be recorded to a VHS tape, which can be seen on any VCR.

From Adobe, Inc.

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