Quote: When I try to burn a video to disk, I am getting


"burning to disk unsuccessful
error messge e800 40255
Cannot play back the video as suitable compressot cannot be found."


Help! What do I do next?

Assuming you are burning a DVD and Not a BluRay disk.

Can you Produce the project to MPEG-2 HQ?

Then use that video on the timeline to burn the disk.

If PowerDirector does not recognize the Video format, then use a file converter to convert to a format Powerdirector does understand.

Video: 3GP, 3GPP2, ASF, DAT, DV-AVI, DVR-MS, FLV (H.264), JTS, M2T, M2TS, M4V (H.264), MKV (H.264), MOD, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MTS, TOD, TPD, TS, VOB, VRO, Windows-AVI, WMV, WTV

Additional formats available on Windows 7: Divx

Audio: M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Thanks for the reply,Carl. I am trying to burn a dvd from a Power Director produced film. . Usually there aren't any problems.

I will try to produce it to MPEG-2 to see if that will work.

Mitcham, I'd suggest to produce as MPEG2 as well, but to DVD SP, to conserve disc space on your computer, smaller file size without compromising image quality. And I'll have to amend a remark I made sometime back re: DVD LP, For editing from digital source(MOV file from digital camera SD-card) I found no loss of picture quality there either. I was forced to produce as a DVD LP after an item froze while trying to produce as a DVD SP movie. This was because there was a rather involved Video-Reverse effect applied(my great-nephew was bouncing on a trampoline, you can imagine the effect I created) I used the resultant DVD LP as the base for adding narration, then re-rendered in DVD SP with no loss in image quality.

Thanks for the help, Neil. Will try what you advise.


Ray

Hi, Mitcham. Glad to be of help. Also, I fou burn your DVD as an SP, you'll get more content onto it. Burning as DVD SP will allow over two hours of content(2 hours and 20 minutes, or thereabouts), and I found once that burning as DVD HQ, not only cuts down disc capacity, on some domestic DVD players, causes the image to freeze on screen. So, as DVD SP, you gain in DVD capacity, and alleviate possible image freezing problems. Cheers!

Hi, Mitcham. I hope you understood my last post. As I was typing it, some keystrokes didn't register! "Fou" was supposed to be "Found"! I refer to this as "Keyboard Gremlins". When you tap away at your computer keyboard, writing a post to this or any other website, when you review what you've typed and found some letters missing from words here and there, making you look like a complete illiterate goose.... That's Keyboard Gremlins!

Cheers for now!