I have received a DVD TDK DVD+R Double Layer Data Video. It has a video footage that was captured on one of those TV DVD recorders. It has four hours worth of video on it. The lady transferred the video using the operations instructions as supplied with the DVD recorder. I remember her calling me ans saying - should she finalise - I said yes to her.
I now have the DVD - I can play it - via Windows Media Player - it has the typical directory structure - Video_RM & Video_TS directories. When it is first inserted into the pc and select to play - it comes up with a menu - that has come from the DVD recorder - and allows you to go to two sections of the DVD.
The issue - not able to import any of the content into the timeline. I have read as many posts as possible and used the import video option etc. Is there any other way?
Dual Layer or something else?
Moderator: Ken Berry
Dual Layer or something else?
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.
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Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.
DV Camera - Canon MV830i
AVCHD IVIS HG21 Canon
Canon EOS 300D SLR
Ulead Video Studio Pro X2
I regularly import from single layer DVD+R and DVD-R discs recorded from TV with a DVD recorder.
Since you can play it on your pc, it has been properly finalised. From your description, it sounds like your friend recorded two separate shows.
Normally you'd go into the capture tab and click on import from DVD/DVD-VR or AVCHD which brings up a "select a title" window. If you have two optical drives on your pc, make sure the one with the DVD is shown, then click on "Import". You'll then see an "Import DVD Initialization" window, with a long progress bar that will say "Parsing DVD Content".
On this pc, with the disc that's in it, I then receive an error message in a small window that appears saying "Failed to read DVD information. Report ID: 0x80040901(2305)"
In my case I believe this is caused by the DVD drive having trouble reading the disc, which is not of great burn quality. I can get around this by copying the content of the disc to folders on my hard drive and then importing from them.
With DL discs, burning is much more critical, and success rates are lower, so I would suggest you try copying the disc to your hard drive. If you then have a problem doing so, it would confirm a read issue. In that case you could try importing the contents from another DVD drive - some are better readers than others when it comes to error handling.
Since you can play it on your pc, it has been properly finalised. From your description, it sounds like your friend recorded two separate shows.
Normally you'd go into the capture tab and click on import from DVD/DVD-VR or AVCHD which brings up a "select a title" window. If you have two optical drives on your pc, make sure the one with the DVD is shown, then click on "Import". You'll then see an "Import DVD Initialization" window, with a long progress bar that will say "Parsing DVD Content".
On this pc, with the disc that's in it, I then receive an error message in a small window that appears saying "Failed to read DVD information. Report ID: 0x80040901(2305)"
In my case I believe this is caused by the DVD drive having trouble reading the disc, which is not of great burn quality. I can get around this by copying the content of the disc to folders on my hard drive and then importing from them.
With DL discs, burning is much more critical, and success rates are lower, so I would suggest you try copying the disc to your hard drive. If you then have a problem doing so, it would confirm a read issue. In that case you could try importing the contents from another DVD drive - some are better readers than others when it comes to error handling.
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That disc is written in the +VR format.Video_RM & Video_TS directories
Are you putting a check in the boxes to the left of the video in the import screen? You have to check the box to select what video to import, then the import icon will become highlighted.
If the dvd was recorded in the +VR format and finalized importing directly from the disc may be very slow, this is because VS has to read both those directories (the Video_RM & Video_TS directories). DVD readers do not perform multiple reads & seeks that fast.
To import faster copy both those 2 folders to your local harddisk (under another folder) and import from your harddisk. This way VS can read from both of those directories much faster.