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Ken, No, the process I have been using is to add the file in VS first (dropping it into the storboard) and then do a share > Create Disc > DVD. I tried as you sugegsted above and yes, I get a clean burn DVD menu. Do I then do an Add Media to select the file I want to burn and then proceed from there?

Hi

Just to re-enforce Kens workflow.

The video file created from the Share Create Video File ¡V DVD process is used to burn a DVD.

to do this:-
You need to start a new project, this project is empty, nothing in the timelines.

Share Create Disc, the burner module opens.
Here you add your new video file to the burner module, it is a DVD compliant file. (Add Video File) (do NOT select add project 'vsp')

Now create your menu

Burn

There should be NO ¡¥Convert Title¡¦

The first thing indicated on the blue progress bar should be ¡¥Convert Menu¡¦ (assuming you have created a menu)

Ken, you are correct in your analysis. When I launch VS and do Share > Create disk and then add a media file and burn it to disk, it does not issue a 'converting title' step. If I try to create the disk any other way (i.e., add the file to the VS timeline and then Share > Create disk), it does 'convert title' and encode before burning the disk. This is very subtle behavior which may be documented somewhere, but no where that I found. Thanks for helping me out with this.

Trevor, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, it worked as you and Ken described. As my last post indicated, I find this a very subtle difference between burning a CD that way and just first adding the file into the VS timetime and then burning a CD. One way doesn't re-render a compliant file and the other way does. Apparently this is an issue only a few would stumble upon when using a third party program to enode the video file as opposed to using the rendering engine that comes with VS.

SUCCESS

Trevor, Ken, it works! Using the process you described above, I am able to take the MPEG files created by TMPGEnc and burn them to disc without seeing file size increases. Looks like it was a process issue concerning how to use the tool. I appreciate all your help

PHEW!!! Glad it worked.

And I am not sure that workflow is documented anywhere except here. If I recall correctly, the workflow described in the Manual, such as it is, implies that if you are wanting to produce a DVD, you edit, and jump straight to Share > Create Disc. The burning module opens with the *project* file automatically in the burning timeline. Well that works fine for a lot of people, but some users found that either it didn't work all the time, for whatever reason, or it didn't work at all, ever.

A few of us had hit upon this 'alternate' workflow a few years ago, and find that it seems to work all the time in successive versions of VS. While there is an extra step or two (first selecting Share > Create Video File; then creating a new project to empty the timeline), in fact the overall time for the two workflows is virtually identical. "Our" suggested workflow takes a couple of seconds longer to create the new project to empty the timeline, before choosing Share > Create Disc. This is of course supposing you are creating an mpeg-2 in Video Studio and not in some other program. But the conversion time whether done in the Editor module or as part of the burning process, will be the same.

But in your case, where you already have a DVD-compatible mpeg-2, you simply open the Editor, but don't do anything with it at all. You already have the empty timeline, so you simply choose Share > Create Disc > DVD. And then you manually add your mpeg-2 file or files manually...

But I am so glad it worked for you.

Ken, One last question. I'm able to burn a Blu-ray DVD fine, but the create .iso option is greyed out. VS will let me burn the blu-ray DVD and create the DVD folders, but it won't create an ISO file. Any idea why? Is there a way to generate an ISO file once the DVD folders are created? Thanks.

As far as I am aware, only Movie Factory 6+ with its Ulead BurnNow 4.5 module allow you to create .ISO files for Blu-Ray...

Does ulead consider that a product feature I think I'll open a ticket with uLead on it. I don't recall the product feature specifications indicating you could only burn ISO images for non Blu-ray DVDs. Thanks for all your help!