Phil

We probably need more information about how you produced your movie to obtain this result.

However, another member had a similar problem some time ago. Here is the thread.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/5652.page#22495

It's a rather long thread and it starts with a different question from yours, but towards the end is the reference to a menu appearing at the end of the movie. You might look at that to see if anything there is helpful.

Robert

Robert,

Thanks for that. However, I read all the thread twice and while there was mention of menus I couldn't find anything about them occurring at the end of the movie.

That said, I imagine I created the movie/slideshow, then the titles, then the file, then the menu, then burnt it - twice - with the same end result (pun intended). Abrakadabra! Menu at the end of the movie. I hardly want to invest any more time in achieving the same unsatisfactory result, rather hoping I can get a solution first.

During all of this I must add that the programme closes down from time to time. I am beginning to get a bit edgey.

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What I must admit to being somewhat confused about is the fact that the MPEG2 file of the movie has been made before the menu has been created. This would seem to indicate that the menu is not in MPEG2 format. How then does the menu get formatted into MPEG2 before the DVD gets burnt?

Or am I missing something here?

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Phil

It’s about the ninth post in the thread where Karen wrote:

On to my questions, I followed your instructions with the Movie Clip, chapters, then create Disk. I got a menu but, it came up at the end of my movie.

She eventually solved her problem.


I’m not sure what you mean by “then the file”. The process I would use would be to do the editing and the titles, then go to Create Disk, where you do your menu work. Then burn it. There is no need to produce a file first.

I would try again using the sample clip and photos, and using one of the standard menus and see if the problem occurs.

Robert

Hi Phil,

To add to Robert's advice, I suggest you always burn to HDD (create folder) and then test the DVD structure and playback using your PC based DVD player eg Nero Showtime or PowerDVD.

If all is good you can then burn to disc (and I suggest you use a third party application here as well - saves re-encoding and has a better success rate for me)

Robert,

Yes, thanks, I found it this time - I don't know how I missed it b4!

I thought you had to produce a MP2 file b4 burning a DVD. Ah well, I'm learning all the time.

Anyway, I reloaded the PDS file and went to Create Disc and set up the 4 page menu again and then burnt it. It came out ok with the menu at the beginning.

Then I made a slight change in the timeline removing one photo I had missed rotating, I then checked the 10 chapters were in place and that the menus were all ok and made another MP2 file and tried to burn the new disc. It stopped at 63% and I left it there for about 20 mins. As it was not going to finish, I clicked "cancel" assuming it would cancel the burn. Oh boy! It just crashed the computer and I had a dreadful job trying to get it working again (only one month old). The DVD burner would not stop either!
Eventually I got it back to start again.
Then I loaded up the file again and tried to burn a disc (DVD) again. This time it stopped on 69%!!!!! Then I wenth through the same disaster recovery plan to get it back working again. By now I am most annoyed. This is only a 26 minute DVD with about 400 photos and transitions (fade) plus two titles.

As we speak, the DVD burner is spinning around with the DVD inside and it will not open. If I click on the DVD burner in "Computer" it will crash the computer again.

pjc,

Are you talking about a PDS file?

Any ideas guys? Phil
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pjc,

Are you talking about a PDS file?

Hi Phil,

What I am suggesting is to create DVD folders on your hard drive. In the disc burning module there is an option in the final burn menu to create DVD folders and NOT to burn DVD disc.
You end up with a folder on you hard drive which is in DVD structure. Most PC based DVD players can play from folders. This way you do not waste physical disc determining if PD got it right or not. If the DVD folder creation was successful and it plays OK to your liking then you burn the actual DVD using eg Nero or freeware such as IMGburn.

Hi Phil, to add to pjc's comment, Imgburn works very well for making DVDs from files. I would also suggest if you are not already doing so is to use DVD-RWs for your projects to test if the burning is going well. Once you are satisfied you can the burn to a regular DVD-Rs.

Here's a link you may find helpful.

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/burn_dvd_folder_imgburn.cfm Q9300 2.5 GHz
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Thanks guys,

James,

I will have a look at the link tomorrow.

pjc,

I will try to follow your suggestion the next time I have a session.

I was able to successfully burn two DVDs of this same video a little earlier, much to my amazement! No crashes! No problems. I am beginning to think that Vista could be the problem. I can't open the Recycle Bin without crashing the computer now! Mmmm!

After burning the two DVD's I also tried my hand at printing them on my Canon Pixma but the first one left a 10 mm blank white space on the RH side. Great I thought. Everything looked perfect in the picture. I found out this seems to be caused by the "Delete Guide" (there are two - one at the top and one on the LH side) that can be left in the way if one is not aware of it. The words only highlight (in yellow) when the cursor is placed over it and there is no reference to it in the Help pages/search.

Funny Day.

Phil.
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