Having Problems Burning? I was! READ THIS!

Screwball · Post by **Screwball** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:06 am

For approximately three months I have had nightmares burning to DVD. I have had help and advice from here there and everywhere, including Ulead themselves (who suggested an update and cut back on memory usage) all to no avail - until now!
If you have had similar problems, I hope this will help.

After compiling your film, viewing and completely happy:-

1) Leave your film in the time line (something everyone said don't do).
2) Click SHARE
3) Click CREATE VIDEO FILE
4) At the bottom of the drop down menu - Click on CUSTOM
5) Enter your video title then CLick on the SAVE AS TYPE drop down menu
6) Select the Microsoft AVI (*.AVI)
7) Click SAVE

Ulead will then start rendering (which can take a long time)

When finished it will be saved (naturaly) as an AVI file.

Now this is the surprise! go online and download the programme dvd santa (I have no association at all with the coimpiler whatsoever, I am offering help as others have tried patiently to help me). The programme is so basic (perhaps thats why it works so well) that it warrants no help here, BUT DO NOT BURN AT MAXIMUM - select a slower rate. Don't forget to click on video standard PAL etc. Where you see a row of numbers in the lower box click on them and it will change to MPEG - leave the top box alone.
Burns in minutes not hours and perfect!!!!!!!!

Well it works every time for me after probably 80 attempts with Ulead!

Hope this helps someone.

I now have two problems:-
1) I doubt if ulead will display this message - fair play to them if they do.

2) Any Portrait orientation pictures are clipped top and bottom but ladscape is frame filling perfect.

Screwball

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:29 am

I find this posting to be very strange. However, at the very least you need to create a specific criteria for the forum where going this strange route solved your problem. What version of Video Studio are you using? what were the properties of your captured files? What was your capture device? What are your system specs etc?

"Burns in minutes not hours and perfect!!!!!!!!" Every burn I've ever done using video studio takes minutes rather than hours just by adhering to the correct procedures. I understand that you have now solved a problem for yourself in terms of now being able to burn, but I can't help feeling that if you'd created a 'video editing profile' on your system which significantly reduces unwanted background programs, and done a few other things, you'd probably have resolved your issue anyway.

Screwball · Post by **Screwball** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:23 pm

You suggest mine was a strange route! Believe me I have tried so many routes that a mere mortal would have resigned from using this programme many, many weeks ago. I have contacted this forum, and have received many words of advice, I have contacted Ulead and followed their recommendations to the letter, I have scoured the internet (and discovered many others with precisely the same problem), I am the author of a worldwide selling book called 'How To Solve Cryptic Crosswords' (So believe me I am not a numbnut). Regardless of your confusion as to my problem - I suffered it! Perhaps it is hardware not software, perhaps there is a glitch in my programme - (but I have re-installed) perhaps -perhaps - but I have explained my predicament, as echoed by many others, and I have given a possible avenue for others to follow to enable them to carry on using a simply magnificent programme. I have not had so much fun since compiling in BASIC (you possibly don't remember that ).
I would so dearly love to keep the whole thing in 'one house' as it were, but this is a second alternative that allows me to make DVD's.
I have 620 mb Ram
1.7 gb processor
50 gb spare space

Kind regards
Kevin Skinner

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:47 pm

Hey, screwball, if all that works for you and helps others then I'm all for it. Go for it, Kevin. I would say this though. The Video Studio software works most efficiently when the properties remain constant throughout the whole process. By way of example; I capture, edit, render and burn at the NTSC DVD MPEG2 setting. All of my project properties are identical from capture to burn and I burn a one hour DVD in under 20 minutes, including file conversion and audio/video mulitiplexing. the only reason it takes that long is that I never burn faster than 4X and I usually burn at 2X. I always make sure that the hard disk is defragged and that all unnecessary background programs are disabled.