I really despise DVD authoring Follow

Why must doing something as simple as creating a DVD that you can put into your dvd player be such a difficult thing to do? Pretty much I am working on a 3 minute long video to put onto a dvd and show to some people at work. I have the program Camtasia Studio. My video is basically 2 videos combined with some title screens in between. When I save the file using Camtasia It asks what I want to do with it. I select NTSC DVD and it saves it as an AVI file and claims to be ready to import to "Your favorite DVD authoring software".

So first off I try to put a DVD in my DVD-RW drive and I try to make a DVD with Windows 7. I try to add the file and it can't add it saying it is corrupted. When I double click the file it plays flawlessly every time. So I download a freeware program called DVD Flick which claims to take any media file and burn it to a DVD. I install it, try to add the file, and it is invalid and has no usable video layers.

So I go back to CAmstudio and look at the other ways you can save your project. It has youtube, flickr, cd, couple others, and one of them is HD. The HD format turns it into a Mp4 instead of AVI. So I save it as HD. Try to use Windows DVD authoring software... Same error.

So I go back to DVD Flick and it accepts the file this time. I tell it to burn the DVD and after about 10 minutes of encoding/burning it spits out the DVD. I put the DVD in 3 different DVD players in my home (cheap no name that is 5 years old, Ps3, and Xbox 360. Well the last 2 don't work well with any cd or dvd-r but my other player should have worked. I put it back in the computer and even my computer can't play this dvd.

Why does this have to be such a pain in the *** to do? What am I doing wrong here. The quality of the movie doesn't have to be all that great but being able to play would be nice.

I don't know what your specific problem is, I just wanted to comment that I've had absolutely zero problems with DVDFlick.