failed to burn - unspecified error message

jmark · Post by **jmark** » Thu May 14, 2009 1:13 am

Hi I'm burning a quantity, 50-100, of mini-DVDs, all the same. The 4 minute project is movies and stills with music bckground. After burning one or two i get either a "failed to burn" or "unspecified error" message.

Then i need to shut the burner down and reopen it, (through, 'create a disk') and burn a couple more, then failure again. The project has been rendered so that 2 hour step does not happen again.

I am at a 50% failure rate and the DVD cost are mounting. Anyone have experience with this prolem

Im running XP Home, ULead VS11.5 plus, AMD Athlon 2800, with 2Gb RAM, AGP 512 video card, burning with Plextor on Sony or RiDATA -R media.

Thanks!! in advance
Mark

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Thu May 14, 2009 7:38 am

How exactly are you making multiple copies?

I ask because the easiest way is to burn one mini-DVD then make copies of that. OR...creat an xxx.iso file and burn off the ISO file.

Keep burn speed low to 4x and the brand of DVD's might also be a factor. What brand are they?

jmark · Post by **jmark** » Thu May 14, 2009 3:38 pm

thanks for the input Clevo. I'm tried many methods of making copies. From using the "number of copies" on the make disk page, to burning one at a time. I will try the methods you suggest, 1. create file and burn from there, and 2. try a disk copy also. Got nothing to lose. I do not know how to do an ISO file, I have done WMV & AVI files ith the AVI seem to play better.
Also i read somewhere about pulling memory stick out and put them back in, humm sounds like black magic but anything is worth try. I'm beginning to think hardware as it is with both Sony & RiDATA disk.
thanks again.
mark

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:39 pm

My workflow is to NOT burn to disc, but to create DVD Folders (at the burn stage uncheck Create Disc and check Create DVD Folders). I then use Nero to burn multiple copies from the DVD folders.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:33 pm

I also use the Folders/Nero route, though if you don't have Nero, you can use any program which will burn either ISO image files or Folders (Video_TS). This includes the Roxio suite and others.

You don't say which version of VS you are using, but those before the current version (X2) used to come with an ancillary program which at least would burn ISO files.

To prepare either an image file or Folder, once you build your menu and move to the last page of the burning module of VS, instead of putting a DVD in the burner, leave it empty and click on the big downward-pointing arrow to the right of that window. It will give you both the ISO and Folder options. And when you have chosen which one you want, then you 'burn' that instead of a disc.

Either way, you have the exact contents of the DVD you want to burn. And it means also that the burning program you eventually use will simply then keep burning.

I suspect part of your trouble may also be related to the probability that your project is on a removable USB stick or SD card... Try leaving it on an internal drive of the computer itself.

jmark · Post by **jmark** » Sun May 17, 2009 4:10 am

Thanks it worked, perfect have not lost a DVD since. The .ISO would not read on the TV. I then burned to file as Ken & Lab suggested, Thanks for the step by step Ken. Then used Roxio to make DVDs, as many as i wanted, no failure messages, all ckecked out as true on TV.

Now i wonder why? It seems like a work around, author in VS and burn in another program. Is it hardware, (memory, CPU) or software, (OS, Program)

So again THANKS,
Mark
ps any insight as to lack of sync between lip and voice on burned videos?