Ok this is freaking me out becouse I had two successful burns prior to this and now I'm getting bad burns all of a sudden after I've made some changes to the DVD menu.
I burning 3 Mpeg2 video clips (145 mins total @ 5.8GB) , 8000 variable, Dolby 5.1, 100% quality to a DVD+R DL. The timeline says I have plenty of HDD space and I have over a gig of space left on the DVD. I burned what I thought was a good DVD untill I got 3/4 of the way though watching to DVD and the screen would get to a point and reset to an earlier chapter. DVD menu was fine. All chapters were present with motion video, but the actual video was not present. I then noticed the DVD player was showing the duration as 127 mins, 18 mins short of the 145 mins it was supposed to be.
The second time I checked everything and tried to burn again. I noticed there was no burn varification and "test before burn" was grayed out. Instead I just checked "two pass encode", hit the burn button and went to bed. When I woke up 6 hours later the burn had froze at 76%. The total project completion was at 91%. The counter was still counting.
The only part of the recomended procedure I didn't follow was that one of my 3 clips was 16:9 wheras the other two were 4:3. All other attributes were the same. The DVD is being rendered in 4:3.
The things I did different this time around...
added 3 secs. of black to the begining and end of all clips with a transition into the clip.
created new directories to separate my Mpegs, Capture files, Project files, and so forth. I also renamed some files. DVD menu was reconstructed from scratch using the new file names and locations.
Any ideas?
At the moment, Im going to pull out the 16:9 clip and see if it will burn. I doubt this is the problem though because the project burned with this clip in two other times. The screen just turned to widescreen when the clip played.
Having a problem with my Burn
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jchunter
When I burn a 60 minute DVD at 4X speed, it takes a bit more than 15 minutes.
I think that you are causing problems by mixing widescreen video files with 4:3 on your burn - it sounds as if one or the other is being re-rendered during the burn process, which often unleashes problems (your 6 hour "burn" being only one of them). Are there any other mismatched properties? (I think that some users on this forum have actually mixed 4:3 and 16:9...
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I noticed that DL DVD disks are selling for about $5 each - expensive for beer coasters. You could probably burn files with different properties separately on single layer disks and save yourself some aggravation and $$.
I think that you are causing problems by mixing widescreen video files with 4:3 on your burn - it sounds as if one or the other is being re-rendered during the burn process, which often unleashes problems (your 6 hour "burn" being only one of them). Are there any other mismatched properties? (I think that some users on this forum have actually mixed 4:3 and 16:9...
)I noticed that DL DVD disks are selling for about $5 each - expensive for beer coasters. You could probably burn files with different properties separately on single layer disks and save yourself some aggravation and $$.