Please help,
Can i put a VCD movie onto a DVD-R.

Yeah, you can.

To be more specific, you need to modify the audio to be 48kHz and make it a DVD-Video with MPEG-1 video stream. SVCDs don't work and I don't recommend doing any experiments, because even in odd case that _your_ player happens to play SVCD-on-DVD-R, it's not any standard and 99% of the players wont play it. Anyway, what you need to do, is this:

-open your VCD-compatible MPEG-1 file and Demux it with TMPGEnc
-use TMPGEnc's audio only (or some MP2 (not MP3) encoder) feature and open the .mp2 file and change its frequency to 48kHz.
-rename the resulting new 48kHz .mp2 to .mpa file. Keep the names of .m1v (the video file) and .mpa file the same (like Video1.m1v and Video1.mpa)
-use SpruceUp to author a new DVD-Video layout and use the files you just generated as an input and create a VIDEO_TS directory
-burn the thing using Nero with UDF/ISO format to DVD-R

Once again, I have to ask if SpruceUp can be acquired as a fully functional, unrestricted version since it is no longer available for purchase?

No it can't be. But can you list any other DVD authoring tool that can be downloaded as fully functional demo version?

hi
saw your question
do you need DVD writer if you burn vcd to DVD-R pr can you do with normal cd writer??

geewiz: Of course you need. You can't record music to CD using your tape recorder, can you? Similiar difference, although I admit the discs look the same, but their physical structure is totally different.