Anyone ever seen this?

[Vince Becquiot]

I hate to ask the obvious question, but does your work area go past that point ?

Vince

[Blast1]

[Raf1] “I burned the next copy to DVD+RW so I could stop wasting DVDs until I figured out what was happening. Well, the project played through on the DVD+RW so I burned another DVD+R and it stopped at the same point as the others. To make a long story short, I just exported 5 copies of the project to DVD+RW and called it a night”
Did you try another project to see if it did the same thing? Try making a copy of the +rw to a +r on the same burner and see if it does the same thing, if its not a data problem it maybe a burner problem.

[Raf]

Hi Vince – that was an appropriate question. In fact, I had the same thought after shutting down for the night on day one. While laying there, I had a light bulb moment and got out of bed to check the work area – no joy.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

raf

[Raf]

Hi Blast – I have not had a chance to try that but will this weekend. Thanks for taking the time to reply. I’ll post what I find out later on.

Regards,

raf

[Big Juan]

hi raf
i seem to be having the same problem my projsect lasts about 2hr 15 mins
after several hours of transcoding it stops and displays the following message

”Could not complete the last command because device error – sense code (44400)-
Internal target failure – general dvd err, 279552”

did you get and error messages ?? will try myself a dvd rw and see if it works if it does i will try and copy it from the dvd rw .

good luck will keep you informed

John

[Perry Cheng]

Raf,
This is the joy and art of experimenting with burning DVDs. What I am about to share may not be what some wants to hear in this forum, but, it is my personal experiences.

1. DVDRW is more compatible than DVD+ or DVD-! (Believe or not)

2. DVD burning and playing are 2 diff animals. Some disc will play in certain DVD players and some won’t. I choose Ridata, very compatible (like Taiyo Yuden). Try playing your disc with different players or even with your computer to see if they play thru.

3. In general, encode your video to MEPG via Premiere and burn with soemthing like Encore or other burning software like (Nero).

Big Juan,
your problem is not the same as Raf’s. Your has to do with the stability of your system, disk spaces, RAM and perhaps premiere’s ability to handle long video as well as possiblity exam closely with your timeline, figure out where premiere crashes, to see if any plugins were used? Again, don’t burn directly to DVD disc using premiere (the behavior may be random). Also, for burning a long video, I always disable screen saver, power management and other residential programs to minimize the unexpected.

Best wish,
Perry

[Raf]

Hi BJ,

No error messages which is why this is challenging. I can watch the entire video through the timeline which is output to a 14″ monitor via a Canopus DVStorm card with no problem. What’s even more interesting is that I tried to burn a DVD+R after successfully burning a DVD+RW and it stopped short at the same time as the others – go figure.

Cheers,

raf

[Raf]

Hi Perry – thanks for taking the time to post. No worries hurting my feelings as I have jousted with friends since the good old days of “DVD-R vs DVD+R compatability” wars! I did export the project as an AVI from Premiere and tried to burn with Ulead’s DVD Workshop 1 & 2 with the same stop point as the other attempts. So the mystery continues and some cold, rainy winter’s day I’ll get back into this and see if I can figure it out. From now on I’ll probably just use DVD+RW for my projects since the price of media continues to come down.

Thanks again for your comments.

raf

[Perry Cheng]

Could it be the storm card’s issues? (Usually not in this manner, but…) Like I said, plugins, and possible hardware cards may be the culprit. Well, I run out of ideas.

Best wish,
Perry

[Raf]

Hey Perry – I don’t think it’s the card either. May just go down under “things that go bump in the night”!

raf