DVD burning stops midway

[Guest]

I have looked through previous posts as well as going to PapaJohn and other
articles but can't find help with this problem.

I have a saved movie on my hard drive that is 314MB (33 min. long). I am
using Sonic MyDvd. It is burning at High Quality and states that it will be
2.6 GB. It goes through trascoding video, importing video, transcoding audio
with no problem. Then when it gets to "planning video for movie" the bar
stops moving at about half way with no error message. Even when I press the
Cancel button, nothing happens. I have to do a CTRL ALT DELETE to get out of
it. It did this 3 times. After reading an article on the topic, I changed
the virtual memory from 756-1512 to 1000-1700 and tried again but it stopped
at the same place.

I recently burned a different project with just about the same MB and had no
problems. I have a new Dell laptop with about 35G hard drive free, 515 RAM.

Should I try saving the project as a movie again? It takes about an hour.
Very frustrating!

 

[PapaJohn]

try saving it as a DV-AVI file and using that as the source file for
MyDVD...

 

[Guest]

It is too big a file (7G) at DV-AVI. That is why I saved it at High Quality
so it could fit on a DVD.

 

[PapaJohn]

MyDVD will convert the DV-AVI file to an MPEG-2 one that will fit on the
disc.

 

[Guest]

I don't see any choice in MyDvD for converting files. Can you please give me
a clue? Why is there a problem with burning in the High Quality mode,
especially when I have done it before? MovieMaker seems to have too many
glitches.

 

[PapaJohn]

Movie Maker isn't involved in the process of making a DVD, so it can't be a
Movie Maker glitch. It's a MyDVD glitch.

Files on DVDs have to be MPEG-2 and meet certain standards. MyDVD will make
the files automatically, so you might not be given a choice.. depending on
the version of MyDVD you're using.

MyDVD can be tempermental. I've had it not effectively convert a DV-AVI file
to the needed MPEG-2 file for the DVD, so I'd give it a WMV file instead.
I've even had to make the MPEG-2 file with another app when MyDVD didn't
handle a DV-AVI or WMV file. You can try different approaches when and if
you need to... or switch to other DVD making software.

PapaJohn

 

[Guest]

Thanks-I tried another program and it burned the DV-AVI file fine. I
understand what you are saying about MyDVD changing it to MPEG-2. I didn't
realize that is the standard for DVD. I also realize it is best to save the
movie as DV-AVI so as not to lose quality. I saved another version of it at a
lower quality and when it burned to a DVD the video quality was not
good-breaking up etc. The DV-AVI version burned was crisp and clear. Learning
something all the time.