Straight to the Disc

West · Post by **West** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:42 pm

I have DVD MovieFactory 4 SE. I tried to copy a 2 hour vhs tape to straight to the disc and I get this message "the recording process is stopped due to low disc space" I have 60g of hard drive space free. The video and sound are great. I have a KWorld capture card that appears to be working correctly. I have a DVD dics in the burner. I changed the format from DVD-HQ to DVD-LP to see if that made any difference. But still the same message appears. I am new at this stuff any suggestions?

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:01 am

IMHO - Direct to Disc is asking alot from a PC. Analog capture is tricky enough without trying to burn at the same time.

I'm sure that it works for some users and with some capture hardware, but I havent tried it myself.

(If you haven't tried capturing to your hard drive yet, I recommend that you get that working before attempt direct to disc.)

A stand-alone DVD recorder can do it, but all of the hardware is specifically built to work together, it's got hardware MPEG encoder & decoder, the software (firmware) is written for the specific hardware, and there is no multitasking operating system doing stuff in the background.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:42 am

West · Post by **West** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:31 am

maddrummer3301 wrote:Are you getting any video written to the dvd or is the program first recording the video on the harddisk and then transferring to the dvd writer.

There's a few ways it can work and the direct to disk actually works quite well if you have a good capture card.

Are you using a DVD-RW Disk, DVD+RW Disk or another type?

No I am not getting any video written to dvd or harddisk. The program will not let me go any further than the message

The recording process is stopped due to low disc space.

In fact I thought it would let me record it to the harddisk first, but I can't capture the video until I put a DVD disk into the DVD writer, then it will let me click on the highlighted camera in the lower left corner of the program. I am using a DVD+RW. I notice a folder that is named Ulead DVD Moviefactory 4.0 SE was created in my documents folder. I thought this would capture the VHS tape first and I could burn a dvd from the folder. This is the first time working with this type of program.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 7:08 pm

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:29 pm

My TV card is a Hauppauge but the procedure ought to be similar.
Create a DVD from a Hauppauge TV Card