Burning a DVD

RonH

Contributor Location: Norway (from Australia) Joined: Sep 05, 2011 10:13 Messages: 364 Offline

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Sep 11, 2011 09:09

More 'grey hair!'
Created a short slide series movie, plays OK with music, transitions etc. Only about 4 minutes long so a small file.
Go to the next stage of 'Produce'. Can easily produce it in .WMV HD high quality or MPEG-2 Defaults (DVD HQ & PAL for Norway). I save both 'products' no problem. Both will play on my pc.

Using the MPEG-2 'Produce', I go to 'Create Disc' DVD Video, Widescreen/HQ-Best Quality etc and then click Burn. For discs I use DVD-R which will play on my Player, no problems. Also I have tried by closing PD9 and reopening, going straight to 'Create Disc', opening the eg MPEG-2 file I want to burn as a DVD and burning it.

Both of types of format play on my pc but neither will play on my DVD Player which is a current model Panasonic.

I cannot find out what I am doing wrong from the manual or from posts? So my workaround just now is to resort to using Windows DVD Burner, first creating a .WMV in PD9.

Hope someone can guide me on my errors. So far, no Eye in the Edit/Text which forces me to add another Video track to which I can move the text and now I am not able to get a DVD that will play in a stock standard player.

I have to say that I am just a little disappointed in PD9 but I am not a quitter! My prior (and current) use of Windows Live Movie Maker ALWAYS performs but of course, it lacks the editing features of PD9.

But all of these problems may be of my own making

CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
Someone famous once said: "We only have the 4th dimension of 'time' so that everything does not all happen at once"

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Sep 11, 2011 14:20

Hope someone can guide me on my errors. So far, no Eye in the Edit/Text which forces me to add another Video track to which I can move the text and now I am not able to get a DVD that will play in a stock standard player.

First a question, what is your country's TV format? Is it NTSC or PAL?

Second question, what is the TV format you have selected in PD9 Preferences. Found in Preferences on the General section.

If you have NTSC selected in the PD TV format, and you have a PAL DVD player, the DVD may not play.
Select TV format PAL, to create DVD disks in the PAL format.

I have a NTSC DVD player that displays the error message of "Playback Prohibited by Area Limitations" when I insert a PAL DVD.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

RonH

Contributor Location: Norway (from Australia) Joined: Sep 05, 2011 10:13 Messages: 364 Offline

Sep 12, 2011 01:50

Thanks for your response to help this newbee.
Our region is PAL which is what I have set in the User Prefs ... other settings are at default.
Under Disc Pref I have set the following:
DVD 4.7GB
DVD Video Widescreen
MPEG-2 Best Quality HQ

Any ideas?

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CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
Someone famous once said: "We only have the 4th dimension of 'time' so that everything does not all happen at once"

pjc3

Senior Member Location: Australia Joined: May 29, 2010 19:33 Messages: 247 Offline

Sep 12, 2011 03:04

I have sent you a PM. Panasonic SD9, Panasonic TM700, Panasonic SD600, GoPro HD Hero.

RonH

Contributor Location: Norway (from Australia) Joined: Sep 05, 2011 10:13 Messages: 364 Offline

Sep 12, 2011 11:10

As a follow up which may be of interest to others ...

I have tried the Burn to Folder of a MPEG-2 but the end result is no different ... the dvd will not play correctly in my player. I loaded the PD9 Folder Burn into CyberLink Power2Go (which supports folders), burnt the dvd and tried it in my player. Still no picture or sound but as before it does seem to be recognised as a dvd and load. I am wondering if Burn to PAL is being recognised in PD9?

As an interim solution therefore (unless some more expertise can show where I am going wrong) I will continue to Produce in MPEG-2 and then burn using Windows DVD Maker. I will wait until my boxed PD9 is received, update the software (you can't do any update when using the 'trial' software it seems) and then hope to have some success.

At least you learn a lot when 'things go wrong!' CYa Ron (W10/i5gen8/Nvidia)
Someone famous once said: "We only have the 4th dimension of 'time' so that everything does not all happen at once"