VS10 disc burning error message

Sue Whitham · Post by **Sue Whitham** » Fri May 25, 2007 1:04 pm

I have successfully burned DVDs from the SHARE /create disc step many times in the past, but I'm now getting an error message saying "convert step got some problems". This occurs whether I add VSP projects or MPEG video files at the file assembly stage prior to burning. Any ideas?
SW

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri May 25, 2007 1:30 pm

The "Convert Step" error can be any number of things. You don't really tell us a whole lot about what you are working with. The only thing we know is VS is trying to convert something.

What are the clip properties?
What are the project properties?
What are the burn properties?
Are you using a menu?
What type of menu, text or thumnails?
Does the menu contain music, moving thumnails, etc.?
Did you customize (move any buttons, etc.) the menu?

Sue Whitham · Post by **Sue Whitham** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:15 pm

I'm not using menus. All video clips are MPEG, all stills are JPG. Voiceovers are WAV, music clips are from auto music or MP3. I'm burning to DVD+R 4.7 gb (The project is 2.4 gb). Recording format DVD-video. I've successfully burned projects with these formats previously.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri May 25, 2007 2:20 pm

Are you burning directly from you project in the timeline, or are you using the suggested workflow of first creating a DVD compatible MPEG2 then, from an empty timeline, going to Share > Create Disc and inserting the MPEG2 into the burn module?

Certain types of MP3s don't play well with VS. Converting them to wav files usually solves that problem.

Sue Whitham · Post by **Sue Whitham** » Fri May 25, 2007 3:22 pm

When I'm working on a longish project, I make it in sections. I'm opening VS10, going straight to SHARE and importing the VSPs from there. Would it be better to open the first section in the timeline, then go to SHARE and add the other sections there? Thanks for the tip about MP3s.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri May 25, 2007 3:29 pm

You may benefit by reading the Suggested Workflow.

Sue Whitham · Post by **Sue Whitham** » Fri May 25, 2007 4:38 pm

Thanks. The suggested workflow has proved interesting.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:23 pm

That sounds suspiciously like that ominous Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times!"

In fact, as I have just said to someone else in another thread, it is a workflow which works. Certainly, VS is also supposed to work the way you have been using it. And a lot of people use it like that all the time successfully. But others occasionally run into a problem sooner or later, and it is useful for them to know that there are alternative workflows which in fact take no more time than the way you do it, yet produce a successful result.

And if you think of the logic (and timing), the way you have been doing it, the projects still have to be rendered during the burning process, but the computer has to cope not only with that -- which is very demanding of computer resources in its own right -- but also do the other tasks of creating and converting the menus, multiplexing the video and audio, and actually burning.

Our 'alternative' workflow, by contrast, has the conversion done as a separate step, at the end of the editing but before you even open the burning module. This means that when you do finally get around to burning, the computer has one less onerous task to perform on the fly with all the others involved in the burning process.

And of course, if you are like a lot of us here who use a separate program for the burning program, you need to follow our workflow anyway in order to produce a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 which can be inserted into the separate program for burning.

Sue Whitham · Post by **Sue Whitham** » Sat May 26, 2007 11:54 am

Thanks Ken. I can create video files of each section of my film, then compile them to burn in VS or a seperate burning programme (I use Nero). This particular project is a 20 minute documentary type film, which needs seamless flow between the sections, and when I burn this way I seem to get a slight delay between the sections. Is there a way to combat this?
SW

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Sat May 26, 2007 1:48 pm

Sue Whitham wrote:Thanks Ken. I can create video files of each section of my film, then compile them to burn in VS or a seperate burning programme (I use Nero). This particular project is a 20 minute documentary type film, which needs seamless flow between the sections, and when I burn this way I seem to get a slight delay between the sections. Is there a way to combat this?
SW

The best way to avoid a slight pause between separate video Titles is to combine them all into one long video Title (single video). Then add chapter points as needed...

Regards,
George

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat May 26, 2007 1:50 pm

By almost any standard, 20 minutes is a fairly short project. Is there any particular reason why you cannot put all the various elements of the four separate projects into the timeline at the same time, and render them as one DVD compliant mpeg-2. This would obviously avoid the momentary hesitation which occurs when you render them to four separate mpeg-2s and burn them as separate titles in the final DVD, even though they might play continuously (albeit with that momentary hesitation)......