Reburning dvd movies

[Toppler]

Ok so this is terrible i lost my instruction manuel so i am going to have to buy another one but i just finished making a movie for my office thanks to several of you on this site THANK YOU!!!!! i won first prize btw.

I did then rendering so i saved the audio and video and such on to my hard drive but i was just wondering if there was a way i can just keep burning dvd's at a later time.

I usually open vs10 open the saved movie file and then i have to remake the menu and stuff everytime and it takes for ever is there some way to bypass the remaking menu and just have it saved so i can load the movie and burn it completed with out haveing to to remake everything?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

From the Create Disc burn your movie as a Disc Image (Iso) this will create a file on your hard drive which you can burn using the Disc Image Recorder ( Start-Programs-Ulead Video Studio—VCD/DVD disc image recorder.)

All video and menus etc are preserved. Burn as many as you like(one at a time that is)

Also
When you Create Disc you can save the project as a *.vsp call it my-burn.
Opening this Vsp at a later date will show the menus provided you haven’t changed/edited the project.

Trevor

[BrianCee]

And you don't have to buy a new user manual - you can download one anytime you want from here :-

http://www.ulead.com/vs/documents.htm

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[NoM.O]

Another option is to select 'Create DVD Folders' at the burning stage. Perhaps not applicable in your case, but aside from burning multiple copies it's a handy feature for 2 reasons.

1. If you want to shrink a slightly oversized project, programs like DVD Shrink will be able to read the folder like a normal DVD and perform the compression as required.

2. Most software DVD players will be able to play the folder like a DVD so you can watch it back to check for errors (you can do this with an ISO file as well, but it will require an extra disc image mounting app like Daemon Tools).

peace.

[hagadorn]

I have made a couple of movies but I haven't made copies for my family yet. I assumed I could use a copy disc program like Nero but are you saying I have to do burn it as a disc image first then use the Disc Recorder? Does it take a long time?

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Yes you can use a program like nero to copy your discs.

I prefer to use Video Studio for all my burning, where I can.

You do not have to create an iso first but I find this approach best.

Creating an iso takes about the same as burning a disc using VS.

Once created burning a disc from the iso seems much quicker.

As an example it takes about 10 minutes to burn a 4Gb iso.
Obviously this is dependent on your pc system.
I always burn at a low rate 4 x max

Creating a TS folder allows me to view the complete work using Power Dvd prior to burning the disc.

Trevor

[kebrinton]

One might add that you can do all of the above at one time: burn your DVD, create video files, and create an ISO file.

[heinz-oz]

I always create the DVD folders and archive these. This approach has a few advantages over the ISO image as far as I'm concerned. The best part is that I can use DVDShrink to size down this folder if I overshot the target size. This happens frequently since I use 2 pass encoding and always aim high with my bit rate. Another one is the ease of extracting part of that video from the VOB files if I find later on I want to use some of it. It's not that easy with ISO. Taking it of a burned DVD would work also but I tend to leave the burned DVD well alone and don't use it for anything but playing on the DVD player. All disk blank have errors on them, burneing data adds a few more, replicating the disk is likely to add even more and chances that this will be fatal increase.

[Toppler]

so i had already done that create a disk image and i saved it its called something like PRJ_20060730.iso but it does not seem that i have this proggram called VCD/DVD disk image recorder. Was it supposed to come with the rpogram?

[Ron P.]

Yes VCD/DVD Disc Image Recorder comes with VS products. It can be accessed by going to Start>All Programs>Ulead VideoStudio 10. Now in the fly-out menu there should be 6 options, with VCD/DVD Disc Image Recorder being the last.




Ron P.