Burning DVD

smitty064 · Post by **smitty064** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:38 am

I'm tryin to burn a project to DVD, I get a message that says there is NoDevice I'm useing a Plextor DVDR PX-708A and works great with other programs,anybody have any ideas......Thanks

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:48 am

Do you have any packet writing software on your computer.
This is software that enables you to drag and drop files from Windows Eplorer onto the disc rather like a hard drive.

If so you need to disable that packet writing software.
Please view Problems burning a DVD for a list of popular packet writing software.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:21 am

If your Plextor is one of the series that connects via Firewire and captures from analogue sources, plus you are using VS11, then there is a bug which seems to affect such devices, plus mini DV and Digital 8 cameras being used as pass-through devices via Firewire, plus Digital 8s actually playing an analogue 8mm or Hi8 tape. The 6 November 2007 patch was supposed to fix it, but it only fixed the pass-through problem it seems.

The problem arose because Corel changed the capture plug-ins which worked in previous versions, ostensibly because the previous ones were based on DirectShow which is apparently not compatible with Vista.

Anyway, the only option in this case is to capture using some other program, such as Windows Movie Maker in DV mode, or a small freeware program called WinDV from windv.mourek.cz Then open the captured DV in VS for editing and authoring.

smitty064 · Post by **smitty064** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:42 pm

I do use a packet program, turning it off does't help........seems studeo has alot of bugs........

djmorgan · Post by **djmorgan** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:57 pm

This may or may not help!
I have 2 burners on my machine one internal the other external which is the faster of the 2 and I prefer to use.

I select that burner at the time the compilation is being done and every time the program goes to burn to the DVD it tells me there is no disc, what it appears to do is default to the internal burner.

If I then select the external burner again it looks to the right device.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:38 am

There is a way to "burn" the DVD image onto your hard drive, and then you can use your other burning software to copy that image to an actual DVD.

When you get to the burn screen, un-check the box that says Create To Disc and check the box that says Create DVD Folders or the box that says Create Disc Image. If your burning software can burn from an ISO file, Create Disc Image option is the best choice.

If you choose Create DVD Folders, make sure to tell your burning software that you are making a video DVD, otherwise the files can end-up in the wrong physical sequence. The advantage of DVD folders (VIDEO_TS folders) is that you can test your DVD "image" by playing the folders with your DVD-player software, before you make an actual DVD.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:52 am

Further to the reply above by DVDDoug - that is not in my opinion a work round but good practice. I CAN burn directly to DVD from VideoStudio but I choose not to and I create a DVD folder.

Why?

This is so that I can double check that the completed DVD has been completed to my satisfaction. I can test it with a software DVD player such as WinDVD, PowerDVD, Nero Showtime etc.
I can also make further final tweaks to the DVD with programs such as MenuEdit or PGCEdit. Such tweaks include the button flow control. In other words when I pres the up/down/left/right buttons on the DVD remote is the menu working the way I want it to.