Only half my video will burn to DVD

forensic1 · Post by **forensic1** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:54 pm

I created a video and burned it, then did more editing, saved it, and it won't burn the whole new version. What am I doing wrong???

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:05 pm

What???? You edited the "saved" video the 2nd time? What format is it? What do you mean you can't you burn the whole thing? Your DVD is incomplete? The burn is stopping (crashing or locking-up) in the middle? The video won't fit?

Take a look at the Read This First... post and the Recommended Procedure post at the top of the forum.

forensic1 · Post by **forensic1** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:30 pm

Here's what I did:
Created the video, rendered it, burned it to DVD. Decided I wanted to add another peice of music and more video clips. Opened the saved project file, added said music and clips, and tried to burn it to a new DVD. But the burn stopped just about at the length of the original movie. No error message or anything - just like is was done and done right. My brother-in-law thinks I should re-render and THEN burn. I'm thinking he's right, but since this is my very first movie production, I'm quite ignorant on these things

Thanks for the reply and let me know if you agree with bro...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:36 pm

Listen to your brother-in-law. After adding the extra music, and doing the extra little bits of editing, did your first save your project with all these changes? Or did you go straight to the burning module and commit the unpardonable sin

of adding your project .VSP file? If you have done both these things, then quite apart from anything else, you are merely burning the original project unedited!

But you shouldn't be burning the project file in the first place, if that is in fact what you are doing. As Doug has said, you simply must read the top sticky on recommended procedures. For many people, it seems that their burning problems are associated with the work flow they adopt, and for these people, it appears that they may not be following optimum practice. The main problem seems to be that they have their project in the timeline, do their edits, and then attempt to burn their project directly to disc.

Put briefly, with each project, you should first be going from the edited (or in your case, re-edited) project to Share > Create Video File > DVD, and produce a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 file. You will need to work out the compression rate you use from the amount of video you want to fit on disc. (Roughly, a compression rate of 8000 kbps will give you around an hour on a single layer DVD; 6000 kbps -- 1.5 hours; 4000 kbps -- 2 hours). Then when you have all of the final mpeg-2s you want, you close your last project, and open Share > Create Disc > DVD. At this stage, the timeline MUST be empty, otherwise the program will automatically install whatever is in it for burning. And instead of inserting project VSP files in the burning module, you then insert the DVD-compliant mpeg-2s you have produced, build your menus etc and then burn. Make sure you click 'do not convert compliant mpeg files' in the cogwheel icon to the bottom left of the burning screen.

You are, of course, free to follow any work flow you want, and for some, the truncated method of burning direct from a project works. But the broad experience on this Board supports the work flow I have described above.

forensic1 · Post by **forensic1** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:26 pm

I am printing your reply - following your instructions and will let you know if I have sucess. But I'm almost certain I will! Thanks so much for indulging my impatient ways (ie not trying harder to learn on my own).
Becki

forensic1 · Post by **forensic1** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:08 pm

Mr Berry you have no idea how grateful I am for your help. I have 10 14-year-old basketball champions that are having their awards party this Saturday. I have never made a video before and once I got going on it I got really excited because it was turning out so well. I'll bet I spent over 40 hours stumbling through learning what I was doing. I know it will be the hit of the party and each player will be getting a copy. I did everything on your list and played the first final version on my big screen TV last night. Couldn't have done it without you. I'm in California and I'm excited to tell everyone I got help from "a nice man in Canberra". Again, thanks - you saved the day!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:10 pm

You're very welcome indeed!!

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