Hello there, I hope you can help me burn my sisters wedding DVD!!
Nature of the problem:
I have managed to burn one of three DVDs I have made using footage from a JVC miniDV video camera. However on trying to burn discs 2 and 3 I get the following message after the program has almost finished rendering: CONVERT STEP GOT SOME PROBLEMS 257:0:0.
I know that this topic has been raised in previous posts but I could not see any answers, so please can you help!!
Properties of your source files (format, file size, where did you get it?)
FORMAT: MPEG
FILE SIZE: largest total 3.65 GB (have tried much smaller files and same problem)
FROM: JVC miniDV
What devices are involved and their mode of connection?
Pioneer DVD writer, connected by USB.
Project Settings
MPEG files
24 bits, 720 x 576, 25 fps
(DVD-PAL), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 7000 kbps)
Audio data rate: 256 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio, 48 KHz, 2/0(L,R)
Do not convert compliant MPEG files
Output format (file, DVD, VCD, SVCD)
DVD
PAL or NTSC
PAL
Error Codes (if any)
257:0:0
Assistance required for error message 257:0:0
It's having trouble with your source video file. I assume that discs 2 & 3 are different footage... They aren't just copies of disc 1, right?
(I don't know why it's converting it, since you've selected Do Not Convert. Maybe it's converting the audio... Maybe it's just confused.
)
Since you have a miniDV camera, you source files should be AVI/DV (13 GB per hour). Do all of your editing in DV format*, and then compress them to MPEG-2 once. And, don't "touch" the MPEGs after encoding them.
Sometimes, simply editing an MPEG can corrupt it. (I call it "sneaky corruption" because every time it's happened to me, the MPEG has played-back fine, but caused trouble when I tried to make a DVD.)
*If this will require a lot of re-editing for you, VideoReDo and Womble both include MPEG repair tools, and the free trials might be worth a try.
P.S.
Nobody wants to watch 3 DVDs of wedding video anyway!
(I don't know why it's converting it, since you've selected Do Not Convert. Maybe it's converting the audio... Maybe it's just confused.
) Since you have a miniDV camera, you source files should be AVI/DV (13 GB per hour). Do all of your editing in DV format*, and then compress them to MPEG-2 once. And, don't "touch" the MPEGs after encoding them.
Sometimes, simply editing an MPEG can corrupt it. (I call it "sneaky corruption" because every time it's happened to me, the MPEG has played-back fine, but caused trouble when I tried to make a DVD.)
*If this will require a lot of re-editing for you, VideoReDo and Womble both include MPEG repair tools, and the free trials might be worth a try.
P.S.
Nobody wants to watch 3 DVDs of wedding video anyway! [size=92][i]Head over heels,
No time to think.
It's like the whole world's
Out of... sync.[/i]
- Head Over Heels, The Go-Gos.[/size]
No time to think.
It's like the whole world's
Out of... sync.[/i]
- Head Over Heels, The Go-Gos.[/size]
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