Help adding clips to dvd+rw

nctalkinghead · Post by **nctalkinghead** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:34 pm

Please help this new grandfather who is obviously losing his memory very rapidly! I am using VS8 and burning to a dvd in a Thinkpad T42 with 2 meg of ram in the laptop.

I created a clip (:33 second long) and burned it to the dvd successfully, with the main title and clip title displayed on the dvd's "home page screen." I added a second clip (about 5:00), with title added to the "home page" and displayed with both titles.

The third clip isn't being very cooperative for me. When I get it to the "create disc" stage, the "erase disc" option appears along with "output" and the clip will burn only after the disc is erased, losing the previous two clips.

No doubt this is a simple problem with some step that I'm missing with this additional clip. But I can't find it. At this rate, my grandson will be out of college before I can finish the dvd with his first Christmas on it!

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:58 pm

Hi Grandpa

Welcome to the forum

Them new babies can really take it out of you

When you burn a dvd you need all video clips in the burner timeline together.

I assume you have three mpeg2 files (have you)?

Start a new project
Share--create disc
Add Video¡Xadd all three video files from your hard drive

Create your menu and burn

OK but I am unsure as to why you have a 33 second clip
May be I am reading this wrong.??????

Trevor

nctalkinghead · Post by **nctalkinghead** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:55 pm

Thanks, Trevor.
I now have all three mpeg files. However, I am trying to add the files to the dvd+rw as I create them, which is taking more than several days to wade through 3 hours of tape that my daughter thought we needed! She now realizes that a couple of minutes of an activity is really all that is necessary - not an entire DV tape's worth!

As for the :33 clip, it was my first editing try and I didn't want to waste a lot of time and effort to see if I could do this VS thing!

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:07 pm

Unfortunately you cannot add clips as and when they become available using VS.

To do this you need to use VR recording mode, available in the likes of Movie Factory.

Even so, if you do it this way, the disc is not playable on a normal dvd player until it is finalised. When you do this you cannot add any more data to the disc.

I'm really not sure how you managed to do this the first time round as you say you did?

To do this I'd do it this way.

Make my disc with video 1 on it.
Save videostudio project *A* to hard drive along with neccessary files.
Capture and prepare video 2.
Add video 2 to project A.
Save as Project B
Make disc
Repeat all the time when adding new video.

Graham

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:30 pm

I make an annual DVD of my son's life for the year. His sports highlights, happenings at school, etc. I make a separate title for each one, creating a DVD compatible mpeg when I'm finished each one. Because it will be months before this project is finished, as a backup I burn that mpeg to a DVD+RW.

Say his basketball season is first. I edit that until I have a finished product, then I create my DVD compatible mpeg file and burn it to the RW for safe keeping. Next is vacation. I edit, create mpeg, then burn both the basketball and vacation mpegs to the DVD+RW. Etc., etc.

When the year is over I insert all those mpegs into the burning module of VS, create my menu, and burn my DVD.