Best step from edit to burn with vs 11

errepiesse · Post by **errepiesse** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:36 pm

Which are the best setting to create a final dvd from camera files (jpeg) to dvd for home device?
Thank you..
roby

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:48 pm

Do you mean you want to create a slide show using still images?

After editing create a video file.
The template provided in Share Create Video File ¡V Pal or Ntsc-DVD should be as good as any. (you dont say where you are)
Choose the correct aspect ratio 4:3 or 16:9

Use the resultant video file in Share Create Disc-Add Video

If you are to view on a digital tv then you may get better results using Frame Based rather than Field Order.

If you have quality problems try converting the project to DV-Avi first, then convert the Avi to Mpeg 2.

errepiesse · Post by **errepiesse** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:44 pm

i'm so sorry,
i mean mpeg movies (type wrong jpeg).
i've have a jvc everio with hard disk.
I create not so bad movie, but my great problem is difficult reading of the final dvd on the stand alone dvd.
Sometimes they read, sometimes not. Sometimes they type "no disc", etc etc.
What's the "key factor" to burn dvd that're "recognized" in all standalone dvd reader?
Maybe the disk? (i don't believe at last)
maybe the setting of the program during rendering or burning?
Last week i burn a dvd with my last holydays: fantastic on the pc, fantastic on my standalone, slowly play on a stand alone dvd of my friend, "no disc" in another.
After two days i inserted the same dvd, another time in the same stand alone at my home: "no disc" first time, slow reproduction 2nd time, good play 3rd time, but stop at half movie....
Boh? where i wrong?
tnx pals

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:02 pm

As you have found, not all burned discs will play in all DVD players. Just the nature of the beast.

DVD-R discs from reputable manufacturers seem to be most compatible, but that does not mean you can't get a bad batch of discs from time to time. Newer model DVD players will have greater compatibility with all formats as compared to older players.

Also, some people are of the notion that a slower burn speed results in better playability of the burned disc.

Check out this DVD player compatibility chart: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:08 pm

Hi

Problems with playback can occur if the video bit rate is too high. Saying that Video Studio provide templates to create the video file using suitable bit rates. I assume you are using DVD and not Svcd.
Other than that read My Quick Guide to DV-Avi or Mpeg from the link below. The properties shown are the ones I use.
OK
The most likely reason is disc compatibility. What type of discs are you using.
What make of disc.

I use DVD-R never used a +
Manufacture Ritek or Taiyo Yuden

Hope this Helps

errepiesse · Post by **errepiesse** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:20 pm

thank you pals.
It's very very frustrating got great images duting holydays, spent a lot of time during video assembly, and got a product doesn't work when you are on your seat .
i'll tray slowly burner speed and lower bit rate ....maybe the right way??

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:24 pm

It's worth a try.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:46 pm

On the burning speed question, I use a burning speed of 4x when I am using blank DVDs rated at 8x or 12x. If you are using higher rated discs e.g. 16x or 20x, then your DVD burner might not allow a lower speed than, say, 6x or 8x. So use that. The idea is that a lower burning speed allows for a more 'accurate' or deeper signal to be burned to your disc and improve the chances that more stand-alone DVD players will be able to read that signal.

errepiesse · Post by **errepiesse** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:02 am

another question:
as i see, is difficult to read burned dvd in every standalone machine.
If i burned the movie on a usb pen, putting it in a dvd stand alone with usb port, watch the movie without problems? In this case, which steps are necessary to burn the pen with vs 11? it recognized this device?.. maybe an idea?
tnx pal

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:11 am

I just don't know -- though in saying this I have moved from away from the answer I probably would have given you just one month ago, which would have been to say it is just not possible. I still think that Video Studio cannot be used as a direct target for burning a video in the same way as you would use, say, a DVD. The VS burning module would be looking for an actual disc as the target. Otherwise, you can only "burn" either a DVD Folder or .ISO image file.

Obviously, these days, USB sticks are getting large amounts of memory. I have a 16 GB Corsair, for example, and there are of course very much bigger ones available for a price. And you could obviously burn, say, a DVD Folder in the final page of the VS burning module and burn it to the USB drive letter. A DVD Folder is of course the exact structure of a video DVD, with all the .IFO, .BUP and .VOB files in the same structure that would exist on an actual DVD disc. But after that, it would obviously depend on what your DVD player is rated to play. I am not sure it could actually play a DVD folder, though I would be happy to be proved wrong.

Now the reason I have changed my mind about the answer I would have given a month ago is that I now own a Sony PlayStation 3. I bought it because I knew it would play hybrid AVCHD discs which are essentially high definition video burned in an AVCHD/Blu-Ray type of structure but on a standard definition DVD. This is a cheap alternative for me since Blu-Ray burners are very expensive here, and even the cheapest price for Blu-Ray discs is $25 for just one disc, and more usually $40.

Anyway, after buying the PS3, I found it could play not only the AVCHD discs, but it will also recognise video in its native (high definition) format copied to my USB stick or on an external hard drive connected via the PS3's USB ports. It will also recognise the same video burned as a data file to a DVD used as an archive/storage disc rather than as a video DVD. The limitations are that the USB stick must still be formatted using its original default FAT32 system, rather than the NTFS system used by Windows XP or Vista. The same for the external hard disk. The limitation with the FAT32 system is that it can only deal with files which are 4 GB or less in size. And of course with a single layer DVD, you are in any case limited to a maximum of 4.3 GB that you cam burn to it. In my high definition HDV format, this means I can only edit files which are not longer than about 22 minutes in length. But that is my usual size anyway, so it is no real limitation to me.

Anyway, this is very possible with the PS3 but it has been designed to do this. I know that some -- though not all -- Blu-Ray rated stand-alone players can also play the hybrid AVCHD discs, for instance. But I just don't know if even those Blu-Ray players will recognise video in its native format on a USB stick, external hard disk or archive DVD (unless the latter has DivX video and the player is rated to play DivX discs). I also just don't know about older, standard DVD players. On my own stand-alone DVD player, for instance, in addition to the usual 4 pin DV plug, it also has a USB connection, but it uses a mini-USB port which means you can't plug a USB stick into it anyway. (I have not seen a large-to-small USB adaptor though they might exist.)

In addition, as far as I am aware, existing DVD stand-alone players are built only to recognise certain media (CDs and DVDs) and certain video/image formats (DivX/JPEG/Kodak photo discs). And I am just not sure they would recognise a classic video DVD structure on a USB stick rather than a CD/DVD. And I am also not sure they would even recognise video files in their native format on such a stick, even if would play those formats if on a CD or DVD.

In any case, Video Studio could only "burn" a DVD folder to a suitably large USB stick as described above. Otherwise, as I said at the outset, you couldn't "burn" a final video 'DVD' to the stick using Video Studio. The only other way of getting edited video on the USB stick using Video Studio, would be in the Editing module, by using Share > Create Video File, and then designating the stick drive as the place where the new files should be stored. But as I say, in that case, it will depend on what your DVD player is rated to be able to play whether it could then play what is on the USB stick.

errepiesse · Post by **errepiesse** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:04 pm

thank you Berry,
you are a video master!!!

(i'm going to spent an holyday in cuba.....best movie i hope. my camera is already on the charger !!!!!!!!)
roby from Italy

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:58 pm

Entonces buena suerte en Cuba/Buona fortuna in Cuba!!

errepiesse · Post by **errepiesse** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:39 pm

thanks ken!!!!