VS12 Failed to Burn on projects above 4.7gb

martyt · Post by **martyt** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:34 pm

Hi All. I'm burning my first project in VS12 which is over 4.7gb. ie. dual layer. I don't burn direct to disc but instead I select the Create DVD Folders option. All burns under 4.7gb have been fine. My current project which is above this and goes onto layer 2 returns a message "Failed to Burn". I have experimented with the same video source by creating a project under 4.7gb (using Multi-Trimming) and it burns fine but once I burn the full video which is about 5.3gb the burn fails. Has anyone experienced this or can anyone suggest a reason or solution. Thanks in advance.

Post by **lancecarr** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:39 pm

Hi martyt,
Dual layer burns are a bit of a crap shoot for home burners. The problem may be the burner, the media, VS, Windows, the firmware in the burner or a combination of one, more or all of the above!
Some people just slap together any old thing and they burn dual layers just fine. Others (mostly) don't.
Given you are at the 5.3 gig mark I would tend to either split the project across two discs or compress on to one. You may lose a little quality but most likely it won't be visible to the naked eye and you get to keep your hair!

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:17 pm

Lance -- I think (if I read his post correctly) that Marty is not actually burning a DVD. He is only trying to "burn" his project to a DVD Folder (Video_TS), and it is that which is returning the error message.

Otherwise, I would agree with your about either reducing the overall length of the project or splitting it across two single layer DVDs. The other thing I very occasionally do is "burn" to a DVD Folder, and then apply DVD Shrink to it and then burn it in Nero to a single layer DVD. But that, of course, requires you to be able to "burn" to a DVD Folder successfully in the first place.

The only other thing I can think of is that Marty may have forgotten to select the correct size disc on the first page of the burning module, down in the bottom left of the screen. 'DVD 4.7G' is the default, but if you click on the arrow to its right, you have the option to select 8.5G...

martyt · Post by **martyt** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:31 am

Thanks for the responses guys. Ken, you are correct. I am only trying to burn the project to my hard drive (video_ts file) and not to a DVD. I have selected the 8.5gb option but only did this in the last screen before burning. I'll select it on the first screen and see if it makes any difference.

martyt · Post by **martyt** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:45 am

No, still no luck. Yet, anything under 4.7gb is fine.

martyt · Post by **martyt** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:34 am

An update for those interested...tried to do the same thing using DVD Moviemaker 6 Plus and all was ok. It had no problems creating a video folder with the project size being above 4.7gb.

dowty · Post by **dowty** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:52 pm

I have been unable to burn AVCHD files over 4.7G with VS12. Usually VS just hangs while closing the disk. I can't tell where the problem is (i.e. in VS, in the burner or the driver) partly because .iso images can't be written for AVCHD projects. There seems to be no good reason for this as the rendered file seems to be there in the working folder. Has anyone else had success burning AVCHD on dual-layer media? (single-layer is OK).