Lite-On DVD burning issue

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bfg

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I am completely new to DVD burning and decided to video a school production and burn to DVD. This is one of those tasks that sounded a good idea at the time! I am now realizing there is more skill to it than I thought. Any help from ‘experts’ out there much appreciated.

I captured 2h 18mins of action from video camera into Adobe Premiere v6.5 and saved as AVI file (30GB). Opened this AVI file in Pinnacle Studio v8.4.16 inserted chapters to create an introductory menu and then rendered it as MPG2 (48% quality) creating a 4.03GB "file" (this took around 10 hours on an AMD 1000MHz pc 512MB RAM saving to a 120GB empty hard drive). Using a Lite-On DVD +/-R +/-RW 8X drive I then attempt to export files to hard-drive using the Pinnacle Studio 8 s/w. Seems to export to hard-drive okay (although not sure what files I am looking for here) it appears happy that it has done the job (about 2 hours to export?). However, when I come to burn to "Infiniti Professional" DVD+R discs after less than 5 mins disc ejects saying 'copying complete', but on inspection only a small sector of the inner start section of the disc has been burnt and consequently the disc is not recognised in either the pc drive or my dvd player on playback. I have burnt a 'complete' "Maxell DVD-RW" disc but cannot check in on my dvd player (doesn't read RW discs) and pc burner has problems 'reading' it. I am rapidly building up my supply of ‘coasters’ in the form of scrap DVD discs!

Is it me or the hardware ... or both?
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Duracell said:
i thinks it's just a media incompatibility between your LiteOn and the Infiniti media; try "Ritek G04" they are highly recommended;

anyhow, might be worth to take a look at our generally trouble shooting tips: http://www.dvdrbase.com/showthread.php?t=32137


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Thanks Duracell, I'll do that. I have noticed 'Ritek G04' being mentioned a lot on this forum, what better proof does one need as to the reliability of these disks?! :cool:
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RASTABT said:
Hi if you explore the disc in your burner what files can you see?
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Thanks for your reply Rastabt, I know how much time these replies can take up ....

With Maxell DVD-RW disc ... PowerDVD tries its best to 'read' it but gives up in the end. However, this disk appears to burn fully.

Inspecting the disc content shows:-
"Pinnacle Systems DVD (Drive J)" containing just one folder with the contents:-

video_ts.bup
video_ts.info
video_ts
vts_01_0.bup
vts_01_0.info
vts_01_0
vts_01_1
vts_01_2
vts_01_3
vts_01_4
vts_01_5

Afraid it might as well be Russian at the moment :confused:

With the Infiniti Professional 8X DVD+R disc NOTHING appears in the 'Pinnacle Systems DVD (Drive J)' directory!
 
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Some progress ... tried another brand disc (-R this time), set write speed to x4 to match disc speed. Success, fully burnt disk.

However, tried to playback and getting same as with the R/W disc above. Power DVD player locks up (or gets lost trying to sort something out :confused: ). Dir listing of dvd drive gives same 11 files as listed above.

What is missing for this disk to run either on a dvd standalone player or the pc dvd drive? The scenes (chapters) incorporated in the completed video were created in Premiere 6.5, I'm assuming it is likely to be something I have done here. Would that make sense?

Steep learning curve this dvd lark :eek:
 
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bfg said:
Some progress ... tried another brand disc (-R this time), set write speed to x4 to match disc speed. Success, fully burnt disk. However, tried to playback and getting same as with the R/W disc above.
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What media brand did you use this time?
would try it again by limiting speed to 1x or 2x;
 
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