I have for about 5 years had Ulead Video studio 5 which I have used to capture Digital video from my Sony camera.
I also capture video from a TV card and Satellite card.
As a first project with MovieFactory4 I decided to burn a DVD using 3 files captured from my camera, I wanted to see if the burner was OK, if I got on with the software and wanted to be able to view the DVD on my PC and my Pioneer DVD player.
Since loading the Movie Factory on my PC I have become aware that my PC is not up to the specification recommended by Ulead but is within the specification for the burner.
My PC is a Dell XPS B1000 with Pentium3 1GHz processor, 512 of RAM and 2 separate hard-drives one (120GB) with my operating system on it and the second (120GB) used for all these large media files. My Operating system is Windows 2000 fully updated.
I went to Create video DVD,
Added 3 Video files,
Selected NEXT,
I did not want to alter the files so continued to the burn screen,
At this screen I selected the slowest burn speed, the 3 files totalled approx 4 GB so I just selected next and the software started to work, after a while I left the computer to get on with things.
When I came back a few hours later to my delight all had finished.
I played the DVD on my PC and all seemed to work OK, I then played the DVD on my DVD player and all seemed to work OK.
BUT after playing the DVD a little longer I noticed that the movie was much shorter than the original, in short I discovered that all the movie clips were much shorter than my originals.
I looked at the burned DVD file in Microsoft Explorer and the file size is only 1.5 GB.
So I am now wondering what I have done wrong or not selected or if because my PC is below specification the software will not run correctly.
An even bigger concern came to light next,
I also looked at the original video files on my hard-drive and found that the files would not playback in full in Microsoft Media player 9, which totally confused me, I looked at the files in Explorer and the file size is as original and the date created is as original.
Eventually I thought of looking at the properties and found that the;
Video Codec is Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder
Audio Codec is Ligos MPEG Audio Decoder
All my other original untouched Video files are;
Video Codec is DV Video decoder with no Audio Codec.
These Codec’s come from another media software that I use on my PC but I do not want them on any of my other files.
What I do not understand is why these Codec’s have been used and why Ulead altered the properties of my original files while burning, I’m also now wondering how I return the original files to there original state so that I can play them in full.
Sorry about so many questions and so much information in one posting, HELP is much appreciated and needed!
Zippy
