Quote I produce worship videos for my chhurch and when I upgraded to Powerdirector 365 from Powerdirector 16 the DVD is choppy in some parts when we playback on our DVD player. This never happened with Powerdirector 16. Any suggestions? I tried two different DVD players with same result. I burned 2 DVD's the typical way then I tried producing the video as a file and then producing on a DVD with worse results.

If you have one of your old DVD's migrate to VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB and post the MediaInfo text file of the attributes of that file on the DVD. It would be handy to post MediaInfo text file of a PD18 DVD too to compare and contrast for potential reasons.

Jeff

This is the PD 365 Mediainfo and the Pd 16 Mediainfo.

The 365 DVD playback is choppy and out of sync. The PD 16 is normal playback with no noticeable defects.

Thanks for the details, your playback issue is a little perplexing to me right now and I can only suggest you try something.

It appears for your PD16 disk you used DolbyDigital for audio which is no longer available in PD18. In PD18 you used LPCM which is usually very compatible with virtually every player.

It should have no real playback consequence but it appears you must have had to use "Smart Fit" in PD16 for the referenced project as your video bitrate dropped to ~5400Mbps while a more typical ~7900Mbps for PD18.

I'd make sure in PD18 both check boxes in pref > Hardware Acceleration are unchecked and I'd also try the DTS audio and see if you by chance have better luck with that. Any chance you changed burn media? It’s always important to use a good media product for burning DVD's.

Jeff

Thanks! I will attempt that. The DVD media has been the same for the last few years and these DVD's were in the same batch I have been using. Taiyo Yudon CMC Pro 8x DVD -R 4.7 GB.

I will update you on the results as soon as I can.