A Generic Error Has Occurred

[mark9422]

Hello

I receive the following error when burning my project to disk:
"A generic error has occurred. Make sure that your burner is ready and try again".

I am using Video Studio Pro X2.
Plextor Dual Layer DVD Burner (not a Blu Ray burner)
DVD Dual Layer +R Blank Disk
Windows Vista 32 bit

Disk Format is AVCHD
1920 x 1080

The project files are Standard Def DV Files, transitions, JPEGs and mpeg video files too.

Movie Length about one hour and fifteen minutes.

This is only a test burn on my project as I wanted to be sure that it completes successfully as the final project will be due in late December and I wanted to avoid any last minute glitches.

I successfully burned this project much earlier in the year but the project was only about 40 minutes then and I think (?) I burned it at a lower resolution...not 1920 but the lower setting (can't remember the number).

Any help would be much apprecialted!
Thank you very much,

Mark

[DVDDoug]

Disk Format is AVCHD
1920 x 1080...

...Movie Length about one hour and fifteen minutes.

What's the bitrate? I don't know if that error is caused by too much data, but an hour an 15 minutes of AVCHD is a lot for a regular DVD!

File Size in MB = (Bitrate in kbps x Playing Time in minutes) / 140

Are you able to save the AVCHD file on your hard drive?

The project files are Standard Def DV Files, transitions, JPEGs and mpeg video files too.

Do you really need HD?

[mark9422]

Well after receiving the error, I clicked ok to it then clicked burn in VS. Returned home to find that it burned the project just fine. Not sure why I received the error in the first place but all seems ok at this point.
As far as needing HD, well probably not. I was just going for the best possible quality on my annual family video which captures all the "great" moments we celebrate each year together which is played back on Christmas Eve.
The Standard Def video from my camcorder is pretty good but the still jpegs and the scans look awesome. I suppose I can have it render in standard def and have my TV and Blu Ray upscale everything to 1080p.
I suppose I should look into Hi-Def camcorders ($$$).

Thank you for reading my posts.
Mark

[jbarchuk]

I receive the following error when burning my project to disk:

Don't burn Project --> DVD. Better to burn to local hard drive and then later use the right tool to burn the disk.

See CDBurnerXP http://cdburnerxp.se/

Several reasons.

One, VS is a 'video authoring/management' tool. It is very good for that. But for the comparatively-trivial task of burning DVD there's no need to load a gargantuan 'video editing' program. When VS is open and loaded to run a video project, versus CDBurnerXP loaded with a *.iso and ready to burn, VS takes up about 5X as much memory space.

Two. VS updates hmmmm, how often? Ha! LOL! New burners, disks, technologies come out, and VS just sits there. CDBurnerXP has had *ten* updates so far just for *2009*! They're on the stick keeping up with burning technology. I don't expect Corel to do that, I don't even want them to; I expect them to work on new 'video editing' features/techniques.

Three. To load and run VS to go through the entire build/render process to burn a DVD, that brings in all sorts of potential glitches that might screw up a burn on any given pass. If you burn to HD file, then separately burn to DVD disk with a separate utility, then view and test that DVD, you will know that that file will always produce exactly the same DVD as the first one. Upgrades/changes/adjustments to VS that -might- change something in the final burn process are eliminated.

I -can- and -have- occasionally used a brick as a tack hammer, but generally I'd rather not.

Have a day!

Jim
jb@jbarchuk.com

[sjj1805]

There is nothing to be gained by attempting to burn standard definition video with High Definition settings - you cannot put something there that does not exist. For a One Hour 15 minutes Video you would be better off with a SINGLE layer DVD -r using a bit rate of 6000 kbps.

You need to investigate further why the quality of your still images are not as good as you may have hoped. One normal reason for that is because you have kept them at their original size and not reduced them. VideoStudio is a Video Editor and not an image editor and so not really designed to shrink oversized photographs to fit.

Please view:
What dimensions etc should I use for still images in Videos?