http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community » Tag: burning - Recent Posts en Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:31:09 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-aborted#post-50813 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:59:14 +0000 RayGuselli 50813@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I wonder if you guys could help please....</p> <p>Here is a link to my thread to Magix which includes screenshots of the problems.</p> <p><a href="http://support.magix.net/boards/magix/index.php?showtopic=47682" rel="nofollow">http://support.magix.net/boards/magix/index.php?showtopic=47682</a></p> <p>I wonder if anyone here can offer any help please....it would be very much appreciated.</p> <p>Many thanks</p> <p>Ray </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-47303 Thu, 28 May 2009 18:34:38 +0000 Cyberlink 47303@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Good question! (RE: Cyberlink section in these forums)</p> <p> </p> <p>I'm not sure what you mean by "flip over".  Do you want to have the video rotate horizontally or vertically?  Or do you want the layers to flip (one video is "on top", then the other is "on top")?</p> <p> </p> <p>Tom</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-47246 Wed, 27 May 2009 07:53:30 +0000 7Phil7 47246@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Why is there no separate section devoted to Cyberlink?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-47245 Wed, 27 May 2009 07:52:29 +0000 7Phil7 47245@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Yes, I created a DVD disc but it seems it was probably burnt on a different system in error as I now have perfectly good DVD discs burnt from the same file! Duh! Me learner!</p> <p>Thanks for the advice though.</p> <p>Somewhere else I pointed out that the rendering for this 40 min video took only 4 mins using 17-920 processor. Much better than I ever hoped for after putting up with P4 taking over 3 hrs before and using Pinnacle Studio 9.4.</p> <p>Since downloading the trial software for PD7 and my failed burning event I have been experimenting with PiP and titles etc and all is going well.</p> <p>Question - How to make a PiP flip over and over like on that Supermen movie where the three crims were sent packing? Any ideas? I got an answer from Cyberlink that you add two PiP tracks at once but they didn't say any more than that. I tried that and naturally got two PiP tracks at that point in the video. They don't flip over though - of course!</p> <p> </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46838 Fri, 15 May 2009 17:02:42 +0000 Cyberlink 46838@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yes, commercial DVD movies are physically different than recordable or erasable DVDs that you burn with a DVD-R/RW drive or set-top recorder.  If you want "replicated" DVDs, there are many independent CD/DVD manufacturers who can do this, but the minimum order cost is several thousand dollars (for a minimum quantity of 1000 discs).</p> <p>Fortunately, most DVD players are able to read DVD-R or DVD+R media, so it usually isn't an issue.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46814 Fri, 15 May 2009 02:03:28 +0000 XTR-91 46814@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>So you're saying that the commercial DVD movies and video discs are different than the kind that you burn with a DVD writer or a real-time consumer DVD recorder. I guess the universal DVD-Video discs are recorded with equipment that is too sophisticated for the unpaid.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46803 Thu, 14 May 2009 22:36:57 +0000 Cyberlink 46803@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>All DVDs are DVD-ROMs (logically). DVD-Video is an application format.  Logical formats are independent of physical formats.  The DVD movies that you buy are DVD-Videos.  The DVD-Video specification is built on top of the DVD-ROM specification.  Note the DVD-Video logo on movies that you buy.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW are physical media types (recordable and erasable).  They are designed to emulate a pre-recorded DVD.  But due to the different physical properties, they are never quite as readable as a pre-recorded DVD.  </p> <p>The movie that you buy on DVD are not "burned", they are pre-recorded.  The information is encoded on a glass master, and the glass master is used to make nickel stampers.  The stampers are mounted in injection molding machines, and the polycarbonate is injected into the mold, pressing up against the stamper on one side of the mold.  The track of pits is molded into the polycarbonate.  The clear plastic substrate is metalized with a silver alloy (for dual layer DVDs... which most movies are), and then bonded to another substrate.</p> <p>Recordable DVDs (-R, +R) are different.  They are molded using a stamper with a "pre-groove"... a continuous groove with a wobble.  The clear substrate is coated with a dye layer which is sensitive to the recording laser.  Then the substrate is metalized to make it reflective.  Instead of a track of pits (bumps, actually), a recorded DVD has a track of burned marks that emulate pits.  Instead of changing the amount of reflected light of the laser that is reading the disc by diffraction (pre-recorded), a recordable disc changes the amount of reflected light through absorption.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46796 Thu, 14 May 2009 17:52:31 +0000 XTR-91 46796@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p><strong>Cyberlink said:</strong><br /><em>The first question is... did you create a DVD-Video disc? ... DVD players are designed to play DVD-Video discs, although some may play video files on a DVD-ROM disc.</em><br /><em>If you have a legal DVD-Video disc, the next question is - is it readable?</em></p> <p>I think that DVD-Video and DVD-ROMs are just fancy names for the standard DVD R discs. When researching disc formats, I come across DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DL (dual layer) DVD, Double-side, and DVD-RAM. These are the formats that I see available to buy (there are no "DVD-Video" or "DVD-ROM" discs). If someone else knows better, they can correct.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46793 Thu, 14 May 2009 17:31:11 +0000 Cyberlink 46793@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi Phil,</p> <p>Cyberlink has a support website ....</p> <p><a href="https://membership.cyberlink.com/prog/support/cs/index.do" rel="nofollow">https://membership.cyberlink.com/prog/support/cs/index.do</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>There are several possible reasons that a DVD you create won't play in a DVD Player.</p> <p>The first question is... did you create a DVD-Video disc?  If you used PowerDirector's "Create Disc" function, the answer is yes.  If you used PowerDirector to create a video file, and then you copied this to a DVD, the answer is no.  A DVD-video title has a VIDEO_TS folder, with IFO, BUP and VOB files inside.  DVD players are designed to play DVD-Video discs, although some may play video files on a DVD-ROM disc.</p> <p>If you have a legal DVD-Video disc, the next question is - is it readable?  If you can play the disc on your PC (using PowerDVD, or Windows Media Player), then it's readable as far as your DVD drive is concerned.  DVD players don't always play DVD-R or DVD-RW (or +R, +RW) media... especially older players.  Did you try the disc in some other DVD players?</p> <p>I hope this helps.</p> <p> </p> <p>Tom</p> <p>Cyberlink</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/powerdirector7-transcoding-and-burning#post-46776 Thu, 14 May 2009 07:33:14 +0000 7Phil7 46776@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I have just downloaded the trial version and created a test DVD with 40 mins of video which plays ok on the computer but not on a DVD player.</p> <p>I tried to email Support at Cyberlink but came up against a brick wall.</p> <p>Any ideas please?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39835 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:11:41 +0000 birdcat 39835@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <blockquote><p>Both my TV and DVD player (Samsung) claim to be High Definition, and the TV can certainly display the 720p footage direct from the camera in glorious highdefness. But if I want to record to a DVD in high definition will I need to invest in Blu-Ray or can a so-called HD DVD player play 720p DVD's burned on a lap top?</p></blockquote> <p>HD DVD is dead - That camp dropped out of the market a few months ago.  If you want to deliver true HD (720p, 1080i, 1080p) via anything other than computer (or data disc, flash, etc... ) then as of right now your only option is BluRay.  If you already own an HD/DVD player and HD/DVD burner on the PC, this will work, but that market is not going anywhere near up. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39822 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:56:49 +0000 Hewho 39822@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Just thought of two supplementary question for the panel .....</p> <p>1. Both my TV and DVD player (Samsung) claim to be High Definition, and the TV can certainly display the 720p footage direct from the camera in glorious highdefness.  But if I want to record to a DVD in high definition will I need to invest in Blu-Ray or can a so-called HD DVD player play 720p DVD's burned on a lap top?</p> <p>2. Is the annoying freeze frame at the start and end of each clip a symptom of the AVCHD format or is this a problem unique to the Sanyo HD camcorders?  If you have a solid state or hard disk video camera - does yours have a freeze frame start and end to each clip?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39821 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:32:42 +0000 Hewho 39821@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks for the excellent tips .... and the thought that my daughter's gymnastic class might be used to represent the pinnacle of 21st Century development!</p> <p> I'll have another go at it and try out all the suggestions.  What confuses me as a beginner is that I thought the video was already highly compressed to fit it on the SD card in the first place .... so why is the PC taking hours trying to compress it again?  And yes, I am keeping the original SD cards as the archive copy.  My intention was to find a way to remove the irritating freeze frames at the start of each clip and to save to DVD to make it simple for my wife and daughter to watch the footage on the TV.  I also want to make copies of the DVD to torture my mother in law.  Perhaps I should have bought a DVD camcorder in the first place?  But they seem to have other limitations.</p> <p> On the issue of high v low quality and compression .... with Premier the Highest Quality has the largest file size and fastest bit rate, so I'm guessing that this is the lowest compression?</p> <p> If I could find a simple way to burn the memory card footage to a DVD without the freeze frames between each shot, I'd be happy to drop the titles, transitions and editing in return for less time and complexity.  I can do any editing in the camera.  In the olden days I used to record my miniDV tapes to VHS video tapes in 'real, real time' and that was it ... but the quality reduction was not acceptable after we bought a huge high def telly.  Progress!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39803 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:51:36 +0000 D0n 39803@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Try outputting the same file with with different compressions settings and compare quality and file sizes.</p> <p>one thing I noticed in quicktime/finalcut (may not apply to other editors) is the compression quality settings on export are misleading.</p> <p>"Highest Quality" compression equals smaller movie file, and most compression.           in a movie clip short enough to fit a dvd, a single pass on low quality compressions settings, shortens the render times, and in some instances improves video quality. (for example a 2 hour movie to Appletv format will look better than the same movie compressed to fit a single layer dvd.).</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39801 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:38:09 +0000 BarefootMedia 39801@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>As I see it, your general plan is to use your camcorder to record HD video to a flash memory card.  Move the card to your computer and whether you copy the files to your hard drive or use them as they are on the SD card, the system will work the same.  Now you open Adobe Premiere Express (or whatever) and import video from the SD card.  This is done at faster than real time, then you can add a touch of flash to the program and you're ready to make a DVD.  Using your version of Premiere, under the render options you select "save video on DVD" and hit GO.  Then fourteen months later, out pops a Standard Definition DVD of your 720p recording in 16:9 MPG2 format that when inserted into a DVD player will start, play once and stop.  I'll have a couple of questions about your workflow later, but first we should look at where your bottlenecks may lie.</p> <p>The biggest processor hog I see is video compression.  The native files copied from the flash memory card are HD 720p files.  Your version of Premiere deals with that format natively.  And then it's time to shrink the video to play on an ordinary DVD player.  If there are any options available, you'd want to select "Highest" quality rendering.  The highest quality rendering of any video format into MPEG2 files uses a two-pass processing system that roughly triples the processing time over a one-pass render setting.  But in my estimation, the results are more than worth it.</p> <p>What I see as your largest consumer of time is the compression of HD 720p into MPG2 SD video for DVD's.  Sometimes a tweak on the NLE can cause it to default differently.  Like adjusting the project properties in Premiere to 16:9 SD video.  So when Premiere pre-renders the entire project before compression, it isn't making an HD 720p version for compression (especially a two-pass compression.)  If project properties are set for SD video, the pre-render (to generate actual SD video with EFX &amp; graphics and audio mixes) may take a little longer, but the MPG2 compression will practically fly, even in a two-pass compression.</p> <p>If that doesn't help, there may be an easy work-around.  The enormous time consumed to compress the video in the computer might be eliminated by using a "real time" video capture.  My understanding is that a lot of flash media camcorders are able to play back SD video via their Firewire (IEEE 1394) port.  Import the video in a 16:9 SD video with only Intra-frame compression, AVI is my first thought, then you use that to edit and print to DVD.  If the camcorder doesn't provide the SD playback function,  you can do your own video format conversion before you do your editing.  Use your Adobe NLE splice all the source video any which way is easiest, then render it to your hard drive as something like an AVI file.  Turn around and start a new project using that file and you'll almost certainly experience a drastic reduction in the time it takes for the edited program to end up burned to a DVD.</p> <p>Hope this helps!  But I did want to make sure you're using the most appropriate format for recording your video.</p> <p>Since you record to flash media, you are almost certainly re-using your SD cards.  So you must have some method of archiving those source files in their native format.  Some folks buy external hard drives and store video data until it is full, then replace the drive with another and store the full drive as a permanent back-up.  Others, like myself, use DVD's as data disc's and store 20 minutes of AVI per DVD to saving the highest quality video we have, then store the DVD's for permanent back-up.  But my point is that if you're not saving your original video files, you could save a lot of time by recording in an SD format at the outset.</p> <p>I don't want to sound insulting or insinuate everyone should be archiving their raw video.  I worked for many years directly with video beginners and I was surprised at how few actually saved their original tapes once they'd finished their editing.  They saved the edited programs and made copies till they'd nearly wear out.  But anyway, if you're not saving your HD source files so your grandchildren can use the video in HD to tease their parents, or your children, or some such possibility.  If you're not saving the raw video for future possibilities, you're much better off starting out nearer the format you're going to actually save it in.</p> <p>But if you are, like myself, archiving your video for no apparent reason, then take heart in this, "If somehow our civilization was destroyed, then centuries later, when our mutated descendants began to explore ages past by digging through the layer of plastic debris marking our highest point in history, they may just find your ancient archive of family videos (we hope) and YOUR family will be presented as representatives of life before planerary collapse!"   Cool, eh?</p> <p>So anyway, try fooling with your project properties first, but use just a two minute clip written to a DVD-RW, if written at all.  But you've described a text book version of the symptoms of extreme compression, even though your end-product doesn't look compressed at all.  Take heart I believe you'll soon lick this problem.</p> <p>Now have fun and Good Luck!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39795 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:09:24 +0000 robgrauert 39795@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> damn that's it? That's not very big at all. I dunno. Sorry I don't have an answer. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39794 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:59:32 +0000 Hewho 39794@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks ...... I'll give it a try ....</p> <p>The file size was 700-900 Mb depending on compression applied</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39792 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:19:21 +0000 robgrauert 39792@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> hmm...doesn't sound like you're doing anything too complicated. Maybe you have to compress the video so it's not such a big file that is being burned onto the DVD. I'm not sure what kind of files work best with your DVD authoring program, but i would guess .avi if you're using a PC. See if you can export your timeline from the video editing program as a .avi and try compressing the video some. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39791 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:48:26 +0000 Hewho 39791@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi ... it's the former ... I'm importing the footage into Premier, linking them in 'scene' mode, adding some titles and transitions, deleting the odd scene then burning the final 'project' to a DVD so I can play the video on a normal DVD player. </p> <p> The AMD Turion 64 is an HP Pavillion about two years old, but the Pentium is brand new Acer Aspire 2920Z</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39790 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:22:21 +0000 robgrauert 39790@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Explain more about what you're doing.</p> <p>Are you capturing/importing footage into an editing program, cutting the clips to music to create a watch-able video, and then trying to burn to a DVD that can be popped into a DVD player for viewing?</p> <p>Or are you simply capturing/importing footage and trying to store it onto a DVD as data.</p> <p>If you are doing either of these, what steps are you doing afterward to get the video into your DVD Authoring program. </p> <p>How old/fast are your computers? I believe the encoding has more to do with processing speed than it does RAM.  </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/burning-hd-dvds-help-please#post-39789 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:58:21 +0000 Hewho 39789@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I've recently bought a Sanyo HD700 video camera and have been trying to burn 720p video from the SD card to a DVD but the process seems to take so long I think I'm too old at 50 to burn more than one movie! ... is there a quicker way or am I doing something wrong?  The footage direct from the camera to a TV is excellent quality but almost unwatchable because each clip starts and ends with a still shot and no audio.  This can be removed by joining the clips in the Adobe Premier freebie software that came with the camera.   I then need to burn the file to a DVD, but the encoding process for about 20 minutes of video takes 6-8 hours??</p> <p> I have two lap-tops, both with DVD drives - one with an AMD Turion processor and the other with a Pentium Dual Core and 2 Mb RAM ... but both take forever.</p> <p> Is there a quick, resonably simple way I can make a DVD from the SD card without the annoying freeze frames between every shot and withiout having to run the lap top overnight?</p> <p>Thanks for any help from the experts!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-burning-dvds#post-39514 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:27:38 +0000 fallguy 39514@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>thanks for all the replies....FallingStarFilms...DOn....and birdcat...</p> <p>Did manage to put in D630 birdcat and it looks like a good buy....</p> <p>I am seriously considering getting one...</p> <p>many thanks again to you all.. Fallguy</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-burning-dvds#post-39132 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:54:42 +0000 D0n 39132@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I couldn't be happier with my macbook.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-burning-dvds#post-39130 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:43:53 +0000 birdcat 39130@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <blockquote><p><em>will take a look at the Dell Latitude D360</em></p></blockquote> <p>Hi Fallguy-</p> <p>That's the D630, not D360. (I get dyslexic too sometimes)</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-burning-dvds#post-39099 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:36:06 +0000 FallingStarFilms 39099@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I own a small video production company that does event videography, training videos, and web advertisements.  I do all my editing on the HP HDX using Vegas Pro 8 and Architect 5.0.  It is a laptop in name only - 20 inch screen, 4gig ram, duo core 2.4 processors, (2) 160 gig drives and a dual layer, dual format, (lightscribe -worthless) burner.  This might be more than you need, but you certainly won't be disappointed.  Here is the cnet review   <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/hp-pavilion-hdx/4505-3121_7-32442902.html?tag=vid.1&amp;autoplay=true">http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/hp-pavilion-hdx/4505-3121_7-32442902.html?tag=vid.1&amp;autoplay=true</a></p> <p>Happy Hunting</p> <p>Trey</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-burning-dvds#post-39098 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:05:19 +0000 fallguy 39098@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Cheers Birdcat,</p> <p>thanks for the advice.... will take a look at the Dell Latitude D360</p> <p>thanks again</p> <p>Fallguy</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-burning-dvds#post-39050 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:07:08 +0000 birdcat 39050@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I have (actually my employer provides) a Dell Latitude D630 - It's Core 2 Duo w/2GB RAM and has a DL DVD burner.  I find this fine for using Vegas Pro 8/DVD Architect 4.5 with native AVCHD (MTS) files.</p> <p>Renders faster than my 3.06GHz Xeon box.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-burning-dvds#post-39049 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:33:30 +0000 fallguy 39049@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p> i have a camcorder and shoot mainly family videos.... For more space we are thinking of buying a laptop to replace our desktop pc....</p> <p>I was wondering if anybody as any suggestions on which is a good laptop to get to download, edit and burn the family dvd's on...</p> <p>thanks fallguy</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-edit-pro#post-38890 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:00:27 +0000 Aspyrider 38890@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>No problem friend, I hope it works out for you. :-)</p> <p>Yeah, mention it! LOL Who knows, I'd love to help out Magix. :-D</p> <p>J.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-edit-pro#post-38883 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:53:35 +0000 microdac 38883@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Thanks J. I work from home and I love it. Maybe someone (me) should make the suggestion to MAGIX. Yes. I edit all my movies with MAGIX. I love that software. My only problem is making HD DVDs and with your help, maybe that is a problem regulated to the past. Thanks again friend!</p>