I purchased a couple of movies from EZTakes, a DVD download service, which are in the MP4 format. Usually the EZTakes films are in regular DVD files which can then be burned directly to disc, but these were only available as MP4s.

I wanted to import them into PD9 so I could add chapters to them. My first attempt to burning to a DVD folder didn't work - There was no picture, only sound.

I used Media Espresso to convert one of the MP4s to mpeg, and started over. When I burned that result to a DVD folder, there was picture that lasted for a few minutes, then the screen froze on a frame. The sound continued as the picture remained frozen.

It was possible this was related to the new 3305 update patch - so I posted a thread about this issue. The responses weren't exactly on topic - I was wondering if there was a general problem with 3305 in rendering a usable DVD folder, but the responses were about what to do in general if a burn fails.

Now I've finished a project which used nothing but mpeg files to begin with, and the results have worked fine, in both the folder, and the hard copy disc. So it no longer appears to me like there's a problem specifically related to 3305.

My question - What is the trick to making DVDs which use MP4s as the source material? I thought maybe PD9 couldn't handle working directly with MP4s, after the first failure, and that's why I bothered to convert to mpegs - but when those failed also - I couldn't figure it out.

I guess the most basic question is if it's even possible to produce a disc from an MP4--? All through the editing process, everything was displaying perfectly fine in PD9 - it was only once the project was rendered that all these problems came up.

Info? Advice?

rbowser