Confusing problem?

ste223uk

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Sep 21, 2014 06:07

Hi all, hopefully someone here can help me.......

I am using Powerdirector 12 and have created a dvd for my children's dance school awards presentation night. It contains a mixture of still photographs, video and music tracks.

When I produce a dvd it plays absolutely fine on my laptop, wifes laptop, blueray player and PS3. However, if I try to play it on a different DVD player it has some difficulties? The scrolling text skips and it kind of pixelates through some of the transition effects?

I am producing the disc to sell for the dance school to raise money for a local hospitals baby unit and would like to ensure that it is top quality if you know what I mean. All of the proceeds will be donated and neither me or the dance school will make any money.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Steve

BarryTheCrab

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Sep 21, 2014 08:03

I suggest 2 things.
A. Be sure to render your movie to MPEG2 to create a single DVD-compliant file of your project.
B. Burn that file to DVD at a slow burner speed.

Always use good quality DVDs.
For your sales, an ink-jet printed DVD is a great presentation.
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BillyR

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Sep 21, 2014 09:09

Quote: When I produce a dvd it plays absolutely fine on my laptop, wifes laptop, blueray player and PS3. However, if I try to play it on a different DVD player it has some difficulties? The scrolling text skips and it kind of pixelates through some of the transition effects?

If I understand correctly the DVD plays fine on four different players but has problems on the fifth. I would investigate the possibility of the one player it won't play on being defective. Maybe try a different disk on that player. So far as good quality DVDs is concerned I never use anything but Verbatim. I always burn them at 16x and they turn out fine. Like Carl, I always produce an MPEG-2 first and burn that onto the DVD. If you want chapters you will lose them when you produce the MPEG-2, so make sure you make a note of where you want them before you burn the MPEG and add them to it before burning the DVD.

Concur on the Epson printer for DVDs. Been using them since the R800 about 10 years ago, and have always been happy with the results. Dell Precision 7510 Laptop
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PlaySound

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Sep 21, 2014 10:36

Quote: Hi all, hopefully someone here can help me.......

I am using Powerdirector 12 and have created a dvd for my children's dance school awards presentation night. It contains a mixture of still photographs, video and music tracks.

When I produce a dvd it plays absolutely fine on my laptop, wifes laptop, blueray player and PS3. However, if I try to play it on a different DVD player it has some difficulties? The scrolling text skips and it kind of pixelates through some of the transition effects?

I am producing the disc to sell for the dance school to raise money for a local hospitals baby unit and would like to ensure that it is top quality if you know what I mean. All of the proceeds will be donated and neither me or the dance school will make any money.

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Steve

Ive already been similar to yours when I used a DVD medias Elgin one that has the really dark side of recording, also with Dual Layer DVD medias 8.5 Gb. Origin Umedisc problems.
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