VS9 Not burning DVD Correctly

MikeTimlett · Post by **MikeTimlett** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:09 pm

Hi,

I hope someone can help me. I am a novice at this. I have created 4 seperate projects that each play happily on their own. I can burn a DVD with one project and a menu and all is OK. When I try to put more than 1 project onto one DVD with (for example) 3 titles, the first title plays OK but the 2nd and 3rd contains slides from the first!
The total space used for 3 projects is about 30% of the entire available space on the DVD

I have 10GB of free HDD on my laptop.

The slideshows are 95% stills with music and transitions. As I said the project plays happily on its own.

Many Thanks in advance

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:26 pm

Mike,
Are you following the recommended procedure, using the ADD VIDEO FILE button in the Create Disk screen to select your DVD-compliant video files?

MikeTimlett · Post by **MikeTimlett** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:31 pm

Hi John,

Thanks for replying. Yes I have tried both "Add a Project" and "Add a Video". Unfortunately it gives me the same result.

Strangely the first time I did this it worked fine. Since then no luck. I am not aware that I have changed anything on my laptop, other than the usual MS patches.

Regards

Mike

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:50 pm

Mike,
The results should not be the same for the two methods: Add Project will take a LONG time to render each project in its entirety, while Add Video File, will proceed directly to the burn, if the video files are DVD-compliant.

Did you set up the BURN properties to exactly match the video file properties?

MikeTimlett · Post by **MikeTimlett** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:54 pm

Hi John,

Ahh! I think I have been stupid here. I have not pre created any video files. I suspect click "Add a video" is still allowing me to add a project as the burn time is really long whichever method I tried.

I will follow your advice, I suspect its the answer.

Many Thanks for your advice

Regards

MIke

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:51 pm

Not necessarily, once again! As John has already suggested, you need first to create a DVD-compliant mpeg-2 video file from your project before even opening the burning module. To do this, you edit your project, then go to Share > Create Video File > DVD (do NOT select mpeg-2 here, only 'DVD'). Make sure the properties of the DVD template match what you are after -- though if your projects are as short as you say, then you can set the DVD template properties -- if they aren't already -- to the highest quality: 8000 kbps bit rate...

Once you have done this for each of your projects, you can then open the burning module (Share > Create Disc > DVD), and you add your new mpeg-2 files. Create your menus and burn.

What you are doing, I think, apart from the method where you were adding your project .vsp files, is adding the original video files contained in the project. If you are doing this, they will be added unedited (unless you have used the Save Trimmed Video command). That probably accounts for why you are getting repeat shots rather than edited videos...