VS 10+ "Failure to burn"

[middlebury madness]

What's up. I was doing quite nicely creating then going directly to share and burning. Now I am on deadline and I decided that after reading all the warnings I had better make a video file then burn it. First it makes it incredibly more difficult to create chapters but I managed. I must admit the burning process goes much faster but..... it will not burn. This is a jpeg slide project that I created a mpeg-2 video file for Then followed the instructions in the sticky. It will not burn. I need help fast.

[Ron P.]

Since you are on a deadline, have you tried using your previous workflow? If so are you able to burn that way?

When you say it will not burn, what is happening? Is it crashing, hanging, not recognizing your burner, getting a file format mismatch, or something else?

Ron P.

[middlebury madness]

It quickly goes through all the steps of burning (5min for a 35min production) then comes up and says "failed to burn" I've tried three different disks. Everything seems to be working....

[richmg821]

Middlebury,
Does your DVD/CD burner work? I had that same problem. I bought a new MB, for this computer (needed USB2); but I never burnt anything on it; since I was involved basically with the other 2, for my videos/music. One day I needed a audio CD-R. It burned for a while, then stopped. I thought, my CD burner went bad. Then a few weeks later, I bought a new faster DVD burner, put it in one of my other computers, and put the older DVD burner in here. While the other 2 were busy rendering, burning one day. I decided to backup my HD to DVD. Start, coaster, coaster. What? I know the old DVD burner was good. My new MB, which worked perfectly for everything else; couldnot burn dvd's, or cd's; even with the latest firmware. I bought another, but cheaper MB and things are fine. Try burning a data DVD/CD of your HD, just to see if you have/have no hardware problems. One thing that baffled me though, if I remember correctly; the burners would burn DVD-RW's or CD-RW's?
Usually, when I start a new Video project, I make a ISO file, and burn on a DVD-RW or DVD+RW, just to be safe. Test in my DVD players, then burn the image to the DVD-R's or DVD+R's; if it works right.

RG.

[middlebury madness]

The burner is just fine for everything else. This seems to be a vs10+ problem. I may just can it and get out of video all together.

[maddrummer3301]

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[sjj1805]

middlebury
Firstly view Authoring a DVD to double check you're doing it correctly.

If you are then please post here the make and model of your DVD burner.

[middlebury madness]

I am currently trying to get it to burn directly from the project file. It is writing which is something it did not do with the mpeg-2 video file. It took over an hour to get to this point after reinstalling VS10+ and trying the file one more time. Could it be that I made it into a mpeg-2 File as opposed to an AVI? I have another project that I created an AVI file for and tried to send to my external DL-DVD. It did not burn either. I was able to do thiswithout the video file directly from project to disk with VS9....

My burner is a Sony DVD RW DW-Q28AKYS1 ... I haven't had it that long! And Have checked out for firmware. I am using disks that I haven't had trouble with in the recent past. as a matter of fact I am down to the last 5 of my 50 spindle.

I would like to get to the bottom of this. As saving a video file then authoring and burning makes sense as it wouldn't tax the computer resources as much.

If this burns I will plan on picking up this quest tomorrow. It is late.
Thank you for all the help. It is great to know that there is help out there.

[sjj1805]

.....My burner is a Sony DVD RW DW-Q28AKYS1 ... I haven't had it that long! And Have checked out for firmware....

Did you find any?
Recently my DVD burner developed a fault (a foreign object found its way inside) and so I had to go out a buy a new one. Went to a famous nationwide High Street Store.

First couple of disks I tried to burn failed. checked the manufacturers website and lo and behold there was updated firmware for this brand new DVD writer. Updated the firmware and .... problem solved.

[middlebury madness]

I got the project to burn by leaving it in the timeline and then proceeding to render and burn it as I always did. It takes time everytime you make a change but it worked. Still don't know why it will not burn from a mpeg-2 file or Avi for that matter! Now I have time to try and figure this out now that the project on deadline is burned! thank you to everyone for the help. If you do have an idea why this is happening I'd be interested!

Carol

[middlebury madness]

There must be something I am missing here. I was able to get the original project to burn finally. Was able to get a huge Dual layered project to finally burn after several tries ( on an external older DL burner I may add)and now I have been working for the last 2 days trying to get yet another project to burn. I have tried going from the project in the time line, which is the way I have found to finally work and burn. I have burned sucessfully on the first try only 2 of the ten projects since I installed VS 10+ at the end of May. I have gone back and made video files put the 29 chapters and associated menus back in numerous times and tried burning. I am pretty sure they are the same properities etc. I do get the warning that it will take time to render.... It goes through the converting of the menus and all the other prep takes better than 45 min gets to the point of burning and it gives me a box that says "failure to burn disk". I know my burner is working because I can disc copy, I have also sent my downloaded pictures from My pictures. etc. This is the same burner I used with VS 9 just fine. I have reinstalled VS 10+ I am at wits end. Should I possibly get the DVD workshop or is there hope that I can get this share feature to work consistantly. I am trying to take my family analog video and put it on DVD edited. I have over 80 hours of tapes and at this rate it will take years to finish. I am also running out of hard drive space because I can get the video in and edited but until it is burned to DVD I can't get rid of it. I have 770GB between my internal & externl HD which should be sufficient since I don't plan on archiving the material there but will put it back on MiniDV tape after it is digitalized. ANy help would be appreciated. Is there anywhere I can take a course and learn this. I do tutorials but am otherwise self taught. I have been using personal computers since 1985-6 I have been working with different forms of graphics programs since 1990 and photos and video programs since 2002.

[Ron P.]

Hi MM,

This is really strange behavior for VS10+, not allowing you to burn MPEG2. The only suggestion I have right now is in the burn module, instead of selecting Burn Disc, try Creating an ISO image. This will have everthing you need, all your DVD Menus etc.. Then if you have another DVD burner application, use it to burn your disc.

It sure does seem like VS10's install went goofey on you. Also I know the properties are real important. I burned a DVD yesterday and had problems because I was trying add an MPEG file that I created a few months ago. VS10 would not allow it, unless I used the Default bitrate of VBR 8000 max. I wanted to burn a CBR at 6000. After removing the MPEG culprit it burned. The MPEG played fine on my computer, so it's one of DVDDoug's "sneaky corruptions"..

Also do you have any lPacket Writing apps running? I don't think that is your problem. If it was, you probably wouldn't be able to burn period using VS.

Ron P.

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Ron P.

Excuse me for not knowing what Packet Writing Apps are... I have Roxio Easy Creator , so what I would do is imply crate the ISO file then take that and drop it into Roxio creater as a file and burn?

Would Movie maker 5 do me any good?

[Ron P.]

Roxio does have a packet writing app,(Drag to Disc) as does Nero (InCd) and Ulead (Data Add). Packet writing apps are ones that allow you to drag-n-drop files to be recorded, backed up to CDs and DVDs. They tend to high-jack burners. I don't use them. They are like Virtual Disc Drives.

I just done a quick search on the forums and found that with Roxio's Drag to Disc, as long as you close the app before inserting the disc it should not interfere. However with Nero's InCD, it must be uninstalled.

With an ISO, file you open your DVD burning application, and bring the ISO file into the application, however your particular app requires and burn.

Ron P.

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Ron P.

I have Roxio creator installed. I use it primarily for making back up cd's and for duplicating my cds & dvds. So what you are saying is I really should get rid of it. In an ideal world I would have a dedicated computer for just my video and do everything else on another. So the solution appears to be that I will have to create ISO files and then burn them separately?

I am getting so confused. Maybe VS 9 was better and just get rid of 10!

If I got rid of Roxio and got Movie Factory 5 That should allow me to do my file back ups and DVD Duplication. I would miss the Roxio program that allows me to digitalize my analog tapes and music albums. There does not appear to be a simple solution.

Thank you

Carol M.