I don't like every burn-to-folder named My Video.

Delta

Newbie Joined: Mar 05, 2013 17:56 Messages: 10 Offline

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Apr 03, 2013 02:01

In the Final Output window, I name the Disc volume label something identifiable to me. If I burn to disc, I have no problem. If I want to burn to a folder, the only way I see of doing that is to checkmark Create a folder. The problem with that is, PowerDirector 11 names the created folder "My Video." Surely there is a way to name the burn-to-folder something other than My Video, but I can't find how to do it. Please tell me how to get PD11 to burn to a folder with a name of my choosing without creating the folder named My Video.

If there is no way around the burn-to-folder being named My Video every time, how do I request a design change so that the program offers two options: (1) Burn to disc and (2) Burn to folder instead of Create a folder. Then if the user chooses the Burn to folder option, there should be a place provided to type in whatever name the user desires for the burn-to-folder. Delta
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Xerox

Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Aug 09, 2009 01:36 Messages: 446 Offline

Apr 03, 2013 05:11

You can type over "My Video" in the Folder Directory text box:


Filename	My Video.JPG	Download
Description
Filesize	38 Kbytes
Downloaded:	88 time(s)

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borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

Apr 03, 2013 05:43

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Delta

Newbie Joined: Mar 05, 2013 17:56 Messages: 10 Offline

Apr 03, 2013 14:46

Xerox, Thank you for your response and image, but your suggestion did not work for me. I'll give more details of what I'm doing in hopes that someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I find it hard to believe this program creates a burn-to-folder named My Video by default with no option to change it.

I clicked on the ". . . " in PD11's Final Output window so I could browse to the folder where I wanted the burn folders (AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS) to be placed. See my image of what I did and the result. I'm trying to put the burn folders on my external drive (J:\) with this path as follows: Within J:\ is a folder creatively named "My Videos" which contains all the other videos I've authored, with descriptively named folders. It is within that folder I want the latest authored video to be placed in it's own descriptive folder name--in this case the video is my grandson's baseball game, and the folder I want the burned folders to be placed in is named "2013 Carter baseball."
Here is where I have experimented with two methods of entering the burn-to-folder's name:

(1) After clicking the ". . .", the Browse For Folder window pops up. I browse to my My Videos folder, and since the unique folder name I want is not there, I click on the window's Make New Folder button and type in the name I want and click OK. This gives me the Folder directory: path as seen in the uploaded screenshot (J:\My Videos\2013 Carter baseball). After the burn to folder is task is completed, the path is as shown in the screenshot (Computer > J: > My Videos > 2013 Carter baseball > My Video) Why does PD11 create a My Video folder inside my named folder?

I thought that maybe I shouldn't create the folder myself and let PD11 do it for me, so I tried experiment (2)
Instead of clicking Make New Folder as above, I stop the browse for folder at My Videos. Then in PD11's Folder directory path that only has "J:\My Videos" I type in "\2013 Carter baseball". PD11 pops up a window that asks, "This folder does not exist. Would you like to create it?" I click Yes and it starts the burn.

I still get the same path as shown in the uploaded screenshot: Computer > J: > My Videos > 2013 Carter baseball > My Video no matter which method I use.

I know I can move the TS folders into the named folder I want and delete the empty PD11 My Video folder, but those two steps are a waste of time and would be unnecessary if PD11 would just use the path and new folder name I want for the burn-to-folder. Why can I not get this program to stop putting the burn files into a folder named My Video every time?


Filename	screenshot.jpg	Download
Description	Screenshot of PD11 & Windows Explorer
Filesize	62 Kbytes
Downloaded:	71 time(s)

Delta
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; 64 bit, 2 x 8,192 MB DIMM1 memory; OS on SSD;

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Apr 03, 2013 15:19

Quote: Why can I not get this program to stop putting the burn files into a folder named My Video every time?

You can not. PD is hard coded to make a Folder of the DVD/BluRay folder to be "My Video".

As you have found you can create your own Folder with whatever name you wish, but PD will still put a "My Video" folder in that folder.

You can always just play the My Video folder. Or you can burn a disk from the My Video Folder.

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