DVDA 3 Discs act jumpy when played on some set-tops

[Wayne Grauel]

1st.. I’m still using DVDA 2 and Vegas 5 & 6… so I’m not sure this will help…
but based on my “Been there Done that” experience here it goes.

1. change Media! – I’ve had issues with Maxell (same thing)- tried a switch to Fuji solved it –
try some different media and stick with what works. Cheap media isn’t worht the trouble.

2. If your burning at the max (8x, whatever, back your burn down to 4x.)

3. Are you using stick on labels??

4. Also… try a different burn program – Nero has always been more reliable then using the burn program in DVDA (for me) If you’re using some other program – try Nero

You’re not alone! Hope this helps.

You may also want to email Gary Kliener, or Ed Troxel if these don’t work- real gurus with vegas and DVDA – they may have some setting changes or further suggestions.

hope this helps

[Terje A. bergesen]

I’ll add a little bit here…

1. Yes, change media. Don’t use re-branded media like Maxell and Fuji, you simply do not know what you get. Maxell may be anything – for example garbage RITEK disks, Fuji can be Fuji or Taiyo Yuden, but it can also be RITEK or others. You want to get good media, so go for good quality media where you know who you are buying from. Taiyo Yuden is highly recommended, it is excellent media for a low price. There is a lot of junk out there, and the expensive media is rarely the best media. You should also get DVD identification software (lots of free ones out there, see the previously mentioned website) to make sure the DVDs you buy are what you think they are. The re-branded media from the big names like Sony etc, is rarely good.
2. If you’re burning at the max, yes, slow down. If it is important that the burn is a good one, for example if you are sending it to a customer, burn at 2x max (IMHO). You’ll have less problems, and the wait for the burn is less of a problem than the trouble of re-burning bad disks.
3. Stick-on lables are bad, bad and bad. If you want to print nice stuff on your DVD, get printable DVDs and an Epson printer (they are less than $100) and print directly to disk. I have an Epson for some stuff and a Lightscribe burner I use for other stuff. Lightscribe is slow as all heck, but I burn them when I am doing other stuff on my PC, so that isn’t a problem.
4. If DVDA burns to your disk it is probably OK, no need to use Nero or anything (again IMHO). Fix any of the above issues first.