Problems burning to DVD (solved...sort of...)

jberling

Newbie Joined: Jan 22, 2010 16:36 Messages: 8 Offline

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Jan 07, 2013 04:09

When I burn a DVD from my video project I get no errors, but my DVD-player, can not read the disc. I tried a couple of different disc brands with no luck. I also tried producing an MPEG file, creating a new project and only adding this file to the timeline and then burning to disc. Same result.

I then tried "burning" to a file, i.e. creating a TS_VIDEO folder with the files. I then burned this folder to a DVD using ImgBurn and then it all worked fine!

I'm not sure what conclusions you may draw from this, but as it is possible to burn a DVD using ImgBurn I assume that there is nothing wrong with my computer's DVD. Even though I have a solution I would find it less cumbersome to be able to burn directly from within PowerDirector. Any ideas on what to do?

/Jonas

CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Jan 07, 2013 17:16

Hi /Jonas

I have found over the years that the DVD burning in PD is temperamental.

I normally use the same method as you - burn to folder. I use Nero to burn my projects.

Happy editing

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Happing editing

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jberling

Newbie Joined: Jan 22, 2010 16:36 Messages: 8 Offline

Jan 08, 2013 08:49

Thank's, good to know that I'm not the only one having this problem. Obviously a function for CL to improve.
I'll stick to ImgBurn.

BroDon316

Member Location: Landenberg, PA Joined: Jun 23, 2013 09:55 Messages: 51 Offline

Jul 04, 2013 12:30

I have been struggling with similar issues.

I found my culprit was in the Project Preferences - General tab where I had set it to PAL 25 and not NTSC 30. When I reset it, PD11 would make DVDs that would run on my 8 year old TV DVD player.

The PAL DVDs would play just fine on my computer DVD players, PowerDVD 7 and 10.

As our situations may be different, here is the full discusion so far. http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15/28980.page#158778

The DVD from PD11 with the preferences set at NTSC 30 looks and sounds just like the ADP11 DVD made from a PD11 produced file on my 8 year-old TV DVD player.

But both seem to have an echo added to the audio that is not heard in the origional clips in PD11 edit mode.
When these DVDs play on PowerDVD 7, which states that it is 2 channel, there is no echoe/reverb effect.

I would prefer not to have the added echo sound. Does anyone have any ideas on this?

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