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Error Message on DVD Architect!
Hey Everyone,
I’m having some issues authoring dvd’s. I’m using an imac with a partition so I can boot it up as a mac or in window. On the window side I’m doing movie editing on Sony Vegas pro and rendering the files as either mpeg2 and wave or avi. I’m currently having trouble burning dvd’s in DVD Achitect 5. When preparing the folder to burn, I direct it to a folder on my external drive as the c drive (bootcamp drive) has no room to store projects. It says “prepare successful” but when I try to burn it I get an error message: “An error occurred opening a file on the system. Make sure that you have permission to access this file”. I’ve tried opening DVD Architect with “run as administrator” and I’ve opened permissions on both the mac and windows sides for the external drive where I’m the prepared file too but hasn’t helped. Not sure what do about it.. Thanks for any help you might have. -
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Since I have never touched a MAC PC, I can’t help you with your Chimera. But for DVD you should be encoding MPEG2 video and AC3 audio. From the folder on the Bootcamp drive that your DVDA project is in, can you play the MPEG2 file from the external drive?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Hi, Thanks for your response. I did manage to drag an avi file over and create a dvd on idvd. However the dvd does not seem to want to play on my dvd player. It only plays on my computer. I went to the Apple Store and they suggested saving as VIDEO_TS and burning it. That didn’t work either. I know my dvd player is working ok. In fact I had created a test dvd using a short mpeg-2 file which had no audio and it played on my player. What am I missing?
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[dave croonprince] “. I did manage to drag an avi file over and create a dvd on idvd. However the dvd does not seem to want to play on my dvd player. It only plays on my computer.”
Sounds like you just put the AVI file on the DVD. That’s why the disk will only play on the PC.
But for DVD you should be encoding MPEG2 video and AC3 audio. Not AVI.
[dave croonprince] “I went to the Apple Store and they suggested saving as VIDEO_TS and burning it.”
Morons.
You need to prepare the proper file structure for a DVD. DVDA does all this for you when you encode the MPEG and AC3 files and drag one of them into DVDA. The other follows. You use DVDA to make your DVD menu, probably using one of the dozen or so templates that comes with DVDA. When you’re happy with the menu, you click on “Make DVD” then “Prepare”. I advise that you create an empty folder when DVDA asks for the project location. The prepared DVD file structure is a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder. The AUDIO_TS folder will be empty – this is normal, but the DVD spec (and most DVD players) require it.
Next you click on “Make DVD” then “Burn”.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
Thanks again. I was using DVDA. Long story short, I’m on an iMac with a partition so I can boot up in windows or mac. I’m editing on Sony Vegas in windows. But the c drive (bootcamp drive) where I have the DVD Architect program) cannot not hold any more project files. So I attempted to save the prepared file in a folder on my external drive. When I went to burn that file I got an error message – something about “You may not have permission to access some files”. That is when I decided to drag the rendered files over to iMac and burn a dvd on either Toast or IDVD. So far they have burned but will not play on a tv dvd player. What step am I missing to burn a full dvd (rather than a data etc. dvd) from an avi file?
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Also, when rendering a project with chapter markers in Sony Vegas, how do I render it so my chapter markers work?
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[dave croonprince] “That is when I decided to drag the rendered files over to iMac and burn a dvd on either Toast or IDVD. So far they have burned but will not play on a tv dvd player.”
What files are you “dragging over”?
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
My rendered avi movie file into idvd. Also, in sony vegas how can I render a project that has chapter markers so they are available when burned to dvd? Thanks again.
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If you are burning the AVI file on the DVD, then it will only play on a PC. To play on a DVD player, the DVD has to be Authored. “Prepare” on DVDA does the mechanics of authoring the DVD. You get two folders as a result, VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. These are the files that need to be burned on the DVD, then a DVD player will play it.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com -
Yes, on idvd I do the same. I choose “save as VIDEO_TS” and the final disc does have audio and video ts but still won’t play on a dvd player. Someone suggested it may be the brand of disc I’m using.
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[dave croonprince] ” Someone suggested it may be the brand of disc I’m using.”
The name on the box is irrelevant.
Who Really Makes the Disc?
Most media is produced by a relatively small number of factories, located in several different places. These factories are mostly present in Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, China and India. There are more, but those are the largest ones. The best media generally comes from Japan, Taiwan and Singapore. The worst typically comes from China and Malaysia.
The blank disc brand name on the package means almost nothing. Apple is a great brand, but they do not make their own discs, instead outsourcing to a company like Mitsubishi Chemicals. Common companies like Memorex, Maxell and Imation all outsource to media vendors. Mitsubishi also makes the discs for Verbatim, etc.
It is the media ID that is important, as it reveals the disc manufacturer. Unfortunately, this is not written on packaging or anywhere else. Companies want consumers to be oblivious to this sort of behind-the-scenes information. The Media ID is also used by your DVD burner to determine the burn parameters which includes the maximum burn speed.
I recommend that you use the freeware “DVD Identifier” to read the media ID to learn who *really* made the discs in your box:
https://www.afterdawn.com/software/cd_dvd/dvd_tools/dvd_identifier.cfmDVD Identifier has it’s own database to interpret the media ID into the manufacturer name and write parameters. Likewise, your DVD burner has a similar lookup table in its firmware. If your burner is relatively old, then newer DVD manufacturer’s codes won’t be found. The tipoff to this is when your DVD burner falls back to “safe” parameters, like a maximum burn speed of 2X. Some older burners revert to their max burn speed, like 24X, which almost never works. If this happens to you, then you need a firmware update or a new DVD burner.
Try using a slower disk burn speed. I use a value midway in the minimum and maximum offered by DVDA.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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