I've burned my first DVD with ULead. It was a 20-minute TV program on a DVD-R.
I'm new at this, so I don't understand why looking at the drive shows a CD with 732+MB on it and with 0 bytes left when a DVD holds 4.7GB.
I seem to recall I burned the program choosing DVD with 4:3 ratio.
I'd appreciate a little help explaining how this works and if anyone has any video tutorials for beginners to point me to, that would be wonderful....
Thanks...
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A DVD disc can hold either DATA or a 'DVD' (Video)
when you use the DVD disc to hold DATA you have an option to create a "Multi-session" disc in which case you can kep adding DATA to the disc until it is full or until you 'finalise' the disc. Once 'finalised' nothing else can be added to it.
When you create a 'DVD' video (That can play in a standalone DVD player) you automaticaly 'finalise' the disc and so nothing else can be added to it.
It is worth investing in a small number of DVD RW discs, These can be erased and re-used, though the quality of a 'RW' disc is not so good and can refuse to play in many standalone DVD players. They are good for testing things rather than wasting a DVD 'R' which can only be written to and never erased.
Another (cheaper) option is to burn your completed DVD to a hard drive folder and then use some DVD playing software such as Power DVD to view it on your computer.
A DVD disc can hold either DATA or a 'DVD' (Video)
when you use the DVD disc to hold DATA you have an option to create a "Multi-session" disc in which case you can kep adding DATA to the disc until it is full or until you 'finalise' the disc. Once 'finalised' nothing else can be added to it.
When you create a 'DVD' video (That can play in a standalone DVD player) you automaticaly 'finalise' the disc and so nothing else can be added to it.
It is worth investing in a small number of DVD RW discs, These can be erased and re-used, though the quality of a 'RW' disc is not so good and can refuse to play in many standalone DVD players. They are good for testing things rather than wasting a DVD 'R' which can only be written to and never erased.
Another (cheaper) option is to burn your completed DVD to a hard drive folder and then use some DVD playing software such as Power DVD to view it on your computer.