Took a chance and burned the video from last week that I didn't have any problems with and it's burning OK...It's over 49% now in the authoring precess.

So it looks like something with this new video I'm working on and not my system, but I really have no idea.

Whenever putting a video on DVD, the MPEG2-HQ format is the same as DVD, so a first render to that format would be a better choice to start out.

What is the time-length of the video you are trying to put on a DVD?
Did you use any ENHANCE features, you know, stabilize, color, FX, etc? HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
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Quote: Whenever putting a video on DVD, the MPEG2-HQ format is the same as DVD, so a first render to that format would be a better choice to start out.

What is the time-length of the video you are trying to put on a DVD?
Did you use any ENHANCE features, you know, stabilize, color, FX, etc?

Hello!

Thanks for getting back to me! To follow up, after restarting the computer and starting the burn with no MENU, it it 70% on the authoring process! Still don't know if the burn will be successful once it gets to that part, but I put it on the slowest burn speed, so we'll see! (UPDATE burning is at 40%! only took 6 hours, LOL!)

The video is VERY hevy on effects and processing, it is a 1 hour video and I'd say 90% of the clips have peen processed and corrected in some way (mostly denoise). The vid is of a birthday party dinner/dance and is indoors at night in low light/stage lights so you know I ran into a lot of issues there

I just looked at the task manager and Powerdirector is using 75% to 90% of my CPU and 64% of the ram (I don't know if this is video ram or system ram. I have 8 gigs of system memory and 2 gigs of video ram on a Radeon 7800 series card). So it is a very tough job for the computer.

I have a couple other questions that might be causing some of my problems:

Based on what I have read on this forum, most guys say to render to the same format that you recorded. I recorded 1080 30P with the canon camcorder and 1080 24P with the Sony Alpha that I use for B roll, so I rendered to 1080 30P h.264 that saves it as an MP4 file of 6 gigs for the main video

Should I be rendering at the lower MP2 size? It seems kind of small for most flat screen TV's now...???

BUT! Here is the thing and might be an issue: I'm not using the rendered file to burn the DVD. I read another thread on here asking about if you need to render before burning a DVD and most said no, you can just jump to the burning process from your final file in Powerdirector. I thought that was the way to do it if you want to add chapters to the file and have them on the DVD.

Should I be using the final working file or the rendered file to burn DVD's?

To complicate the matter, when I made the MENU setting for the DVD it, there is a place to add another video clip to the disk...I added a second clip that IS a rendered version of the rehearsal the day before. I just threw that on the disk as an extra.

Well, sorry about the wall of text and thank you for taking the time to help me with your ideas. I try to research as much as possible before asking here, but as you can tell, I'm not up to speed with all this!

Don't listen to crazy people.
If you are going to create a DVD, it is best to NOT go directly from the timeline.
Render to Mpeg2 high quality standard definition and use THAT new file in your chaptered project.
You also do NOT have to burn that newest project o disc, you can burn a folder instead, that also reduces strain on your machine.
All the extra fixes are killing you, so you'll have to be patient.
I am also suspicious that 1 hour of video will be borderline to fit on a single DVD. That might stall and give an error. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
Nvidia GTX 960(4GB)/16GB DDR3/
Canon Vixia HV30/HF-M40/HF-M41/HF-G20/Olympus E-PL5.
Tape capture using 6 VCR, TBC-1000, Elite BVP4+, Sony D8 camcorder with TBC.
https://www.facebook.com/BarryAFTT

Thank you much!



So, from now on I'll render the video. then open a new timeline and insert the rendered video and from there add my chapters and title effects...That got it wotrking a lot faster than what I was doing

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