Difficulty burning a DVD

[matt27]

I have been creating a football highlight video using Ulead video studio 11 and have had success burning DVDs of the creation anywhere from 290mb to 900mb in 20 to 40 minutes. Yesterday I burned a copy early in the day and went to burn the same creation later and found that when I started the burn process successfully the progress bar remained at 3 % and never got past "converting title". It sat at 3% for hours. I tried again, leaving it over night (10 hours); same thing. I tried burning CDs and the burner works fine. Any suggestions?

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the Board. We need a lot more information. Please read the top sticky post on this Board which says "Please read this before posting" -- http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... 1454#41454 . Then come back with the information and someone may be able to help.

One little thing you might want to look at in the meantime is in the menu creation stage in the burning module of you are using VS11. When you open the burning module (Share > Create Disc), you first insert your video in the burning "timeline". If you want to add Chapters, then click the Add/Edit Chapters button. Then you click next, and the page where you choose a Menu template appears. Once you have selected a template, you click on the Edit tab on the same page to select background music, change the background photo etc.

Down in the bottom left corner of the Edit page, though, is an innovation in VS11, and I have found that it slows down my burning stage enormously, and even brought it to a complete halt. Now I never use it.

There are two icons, one above the other, labelled Menu In and Menu Out. Using them is supposed to animate the transition from the menu to a selected video clip. You will see that the Menu In icon is disabled by default (circle with diagonal line through it). But the Menu Out button is enabled. And this was the culprit. Click on the icon and it brings up a choice of animations. Choose the disabling one identical to the default for Menu In. Then proceed to burn. I think you should notice a considerable improvement in the speed if you were in fact using VS11 and had Menu Out transition enabled....

[2Dogs]

Yesterday I burned a copy early in the day and went to burn the same creation later and found that when I started the burn process successfully the progress bar remained at 3 % and never got past "converting title".

If you're going to make additional copies of your DVD's, it might make more sense for you to output to DVD folders or an ISO file. Having done that once, you'll be able to burn as many copies as you like without having to have Video Studio re-render the project. Splitting the disc creation process in this way may also help solve your problem.