Christopher -

Have you tried your disc in different players? Does it play on your PC?

Cheers - Tony
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Hi Tony,
Thank you for your reply.I have burnt two discs now in Power Director 8 and both will play on my pc but not in my dvd player.I have also burnt two discs using Power Producer 2 and they will play on my pc and also in my dvd player.

I'm not sure whether this will solve your issue, but... burning issues are fairly common with PD7. Much has been written about and discussed in the PD forum.

The most reliable thing to do seems to be to burn your project to a DVD Folder - then use dedicated burn software to burn your discs. In other words, don't use the burn module of PD.

Software often used is;
imgburn (free) http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
Nero http://www.nero.com/ena/index.html
Ashampoo Burning Studio http://www2.ashampoo.com/webcache/html/1/product_2_2210___USD.htm

Cheers - Tony
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Hi Tony.
I think I have found out what the problem is but not how to overcome it.I have been burning a wedding video which is over 4.7gb so i have been using 8.5gb discs.I have just burnt a disc at lower quality onto a 4.7gb disc which doesn't look very good but will play in a dvd player,so the problem is something to do with PD burning to 8.5 discs although I never had this problem with Power Producer?

DVD players can be very finicky. I agree with Tony, burn to a folder.
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Hi Barry,
Thank you for your reply.I am using the same 8.5gb discs that I use for copyng films onto so I know that the dvd will play 8.5gb discs and I have just done a video using Power producer 2 Gold and although it keeps crashing .takes forever to actualy do a video and there are no nice menus and goodies it will burn it to a 8.5 gb dvd without any problems.

Christopher -

When you burn to DVD Folder, that includes all the menu set-up you made with PD.

Burning your disc with Power2Go, imgburn or the other suggestions will copy your menu structure as well.

Cheers - Tony
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Hi Tony.
Have just got home so will give it a try when I can.Something else I have noticed with the videos is that they are very dark compared to the original? any idea why this is and how to overcome it.
Many thanks.

Hi Everyone.
Just wanted to let you know my problem is now sorted.It was my dvd player that was causing the problem.