program crashes when trying to "create a disk"

[Black Lab]

I'm not sure where the default location is, as I always change mine to keep everything together (clips, project, rendered file, etc.) in the same folder. As a test why don't you try changing the location to, say, the desktop for ease of finding it.

I though this was a simple program

Who said that?

[Magicman]

Ok I now know that "burn to hard drive create two folders a VIDEO_TS FOLDER and a AUDIO_TS folder.
There was nothing in the audio folder...presumably because I did not include a seperate audio file for this test....correct?
The video folder contained two viewable IFO file and four others, two VOB files (of different sizes) and two BUP files (of the same size). I am guessing that these other four files have something to do with the menu?
When using a a third party burning program (in my case the only other one I have is Roxio,for the moment) do I need to transfer all six files in the Roxio time line? Will Roxio (or every other burning program) sort out where the files need to be placed?

[Ken Berry]

For all intents and purposes, the Audio_TS folder can be ignored. It is always (for all intents and purposes) empty (except for certain types of music DVDs). Just about any program I know will automatically insert an empty Audio_TS folder when you are burning a disc using DVD Folders. So you only have to worry about the Video_TS folder

I don't know about Roxio, since I have never used it. But I cannot imagine it is any different from any other program I have used for this purpose. The normal process is to simply highlight ALL files in the Video_TS folder and drag and drop them into the column of things to be burned to the DVD. In Nero, for instance, this is certainly the case. You then choose a burning speed and give the DVD a label/name, then Burn. The program sorts this out and happily burns a fully playable DVD.

Burning speed can be important, and we recommended that you keep it relatively slow. In other words, if you have 16x blanks, you don't use 16x to burn a video DVD (though you can for an archive/data DVD). Instead choose 6x or 8 x (or as low as 4x if your burner will allow such a speed with that variety of blank.)

[sjj1805]

Just to add a bit more to Kens reply.
When you burn to a DVD disc there are two types (This is common to all DVD burning programs) There are other formats but to avoid confusion we will ignore those.

1. DATA disc (Also called a DVD-ROM)
2. DVD Video Disc.

You MUST select DVD Video Disc otherwise a standalone DVD player will not recognise it as such. This is despite the fact that you can create a DVD Data disc that resembles a DVD Video disc (i.e. the file structure on the DVD with the Audio_TS and Video_TS folders).

[Magicman]

Thank you all for all your help.
Just a final few questions does anyone use the burning capibility of this program? IF not....why?
The other is very simple, does everyone (besides me) have the capibility to burn using this program?
It still erks me that I have somehow downloaded a bogus version that will not allow me to burn using this program
I received the problem free Roxio program for free as it was bundled with a piece of hardware. Ironic I go out and spend money on a program and it doesn't work.
What programs do you recommend for burning my HD videos?

Thanks again for all the help.

[Ken Berry]

All I can say is that I have used versions of VS since VS7 and now including VS11+, and have successfully burned both discs and DVD folders with them all...

All have worked. I don't tend to use the Disc Image option (i.e an ISO file) very much, though with earlier versions I used it successfully. I now almost exclusively, when I know I want multiple copies, burn to a DVD folder Video_TS (which also allows me to play back using a DVD software player on my computer to make sure my project has been 'burned' correctly). Then I burn the DVD folder using Nero.

But the burning module of all versions, including VS11+, has correctly burned me an actual DVD as well...