DVD returns to start after the first chapter

[Ken Berry]

Both the 4101 error and the apparent slowness are probably due to the procedure you have adopted. Though in theory you can use the project in the burning module, as you are now doing, the wide experience of many other users of this Board is that you are running some risks in doing this.

The recommended procedure is outlined in the top sticky post on this Board. To summarise, you should NOT be going straight from the project in the timeline to the burn module (Share > Create Disc > DVD) which you are doing. INSTEAD, you should use the preferred method which is to first produce a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 file (Share > Create Video File > DVD). Once you have this file, close your current project, and then click Share > Create Disc > DVD. This will open the burning module. Insert your DVD-compatible file(s). Make sure you click on 'Do not convert compliant mpeg-2 files' in the little cog-wheel icon in the bottom left of the burning module screen. Add your menu, chapters etc, and burn either the DVD itself or produce a disc image or Video_TS folder if you intend to burn more copies later.

As for the slowness question, video editing and production is simply not something that happens quickly. Even with a very powerful computer, just producing your DVD-compatible mpeg-2 will take at least as long as the video in real time, and more usually 1.5, or 2 times as long, or even longer if your computer is not so powerful. But once you have the mpeg-2 and open the burning module, and clicked on 'Do not convert' as I suggested above, the actual production of the disc and burning of it should not take alll that long. It will only seem long -- or you will receive error messages -- if you have followed the wrong procedure, because the program is trying to convert the project to an mpeg-2 as well as doing all the multiplexing etc on the fly. It's a big ask of any computer, and especially so if it is not a powerful computer to begin with.