Can't make a dvd in Videostudiopro x6

[martypdji]

I have a newbie question, I bought Corel VSPro X6 and want to make a dvd of a local rock band so I went into Share-Create Disk and created one. The disk will not play in a dvd player but plays fine in my computer once I click on the .IFO file. Should I be selecting a particular setting so the disk will play in my dvd player.

It doesn't play at all in the dvd player, it just reads the disk for a minute and the player opens back up. The disk is good and the player plays other disks just fine, it's just ones burned with Videostudio pro x6 that won't play in the dvd player.

[Ken Berry]

Well, a lot of us here use X6 (and earlier versions) to burn a lot of DVDs, so it seems something has gone wrong with the way you went about burning the disc. What format was the original video you used? (You get that info by right clicking a clip in the X6 timeline or library window.)

Our general recommendation here is that you do your editing, then first create a DVD-compliant mpeg-2 (Share > Create Video File > DVD). That's if the project is an hour or less long. If its longer, you go to Share > Create Video File > Custom. Then you select mpeg-2 as the output format, and in the dialogue box which appears, click the Options button. On the compression tab, lower the bitrate from the default 8000 kbps. As a guide, 90 minute project would use 6000 kbps and 2 hours would use around 4000 kbps. Once you've done that, click out, give the new file a name, and let it render.

Once the new file is created, click File > New Project. Don't bother with a name -- the objective is merely to clear the timeline. Then select Share > Create Disc > DVD. The burning module will open and its timeline should be empty. Click the Add Media button at the top left, and navigate to where your new mpeg-2 is stored and add it to the timeline. Then build your menu if you have one, and burn. Also, before you burn, click on the middle icon in the bottom left (Options), and made sure the box beside "Do not covert compliant MPEG files" is ticked.

[martypdji]

Okay, the problem I'm having is I go to share>create video file>custom and there is no mpeg-2 as a choice (I've always used mpeg-4 files as my choice and then upload them to youtube) but I don't even see mpeg-2 as a choice). Do I maybe have to reinstall videostudio to have that choice, or why wouldn't I have that choice?

[Ken Berry]

Have a look at the attached image. This is the dialogue box which appears when I choose Share > Create Video File > Custom. If there is something else in 'Save As Type' window, you click the downward pointing arrow indicated by the red arrow. And you should find "MPEG files (*.mpg)" as indicated in the image. Do NOT choose "MPEG Transport-stream files" as these relate to high def output.