ulead vs11

mickjane · Post by **mickjane** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:29 am

I have just downloaded vs11 on trial. we captured a video on a sony camera did some test editing and copied to dvd-rw.
we then made another video on the sony camera but when we tried to burn on to the same dvd -rw we had to erase our initial video first.
is this the norm we vs11
thanks in advance

Post by **lancecarr** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:16 pm

Thats the norm for the DVD standard, not just VS.
To burn to a DVD and then have that DVD be playable the DVD must be "finalised." That means closing off the disc and placing all the necessary file structures in place so that a DVD player or reader can know what is on the disc.
If you do it on an RW disc it is the same. If you then want to use that disc again for anything the disc has to be reformatted and in the process you lose all data on it.

mickjane · Post by **mickjane** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:29 pm

thanks for your reply lancecarr. But i thougt you would be able to keep adding video clips to the dvd-rw untill it was full or you had completed your film. Then you would finalise for playing on a dvd player.

Post by **lancecarr** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:37 pm

What you are talking about there is essentially a data disc. The only difference is that the data is MPEG video files.
As far as the DVD standard goes and the procedure for burning DVD's that are playable it all has to happen in the one burning session.