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Why does my dvd freeze?
i recently filmed a wedding with a mini dv camcorder. the total edited video was about 4 hours long. i then rendered to quick-time photo j-peg. the rendered file was about 100gb. i then burnt it to dvd with nero vision. the trans-coding took a half a day and when it was all over when i tried to test it, about an hour in it started to freeze. what could be the problem here?
i used a mini dv camcorder
captured in premiere pro cs3 with fire wire
edited with premiere pro cs3
rendered to quick-time photo j peg
trans-codedd to super long play on nero vision to a single layer dvddual-corere 2.8ghprocessoror
4gb ram -
3 Replies
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4 hours is pretty long for a DVD – you didn’t need to go to jpeg – you should have taken it from PPro to Adobe Media Encoder and encoded it for a DVD. Since you gave Nero a pjpeg QuickTime, it then did the transcode for you – and that’s where you have problems.
Take the pjpeg step out and see if your work still freezes.
Also, 4 hours, usually means a DVD-9
Best,
Jeff G
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oke thanx, but isnt it usually a bad idea to compress directly to such small formats?
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If you’re compressing the footage to play back on a conventional DVD to play on a DVD player – it has to be MPEG-2 for playback to occur. That’s part of the DVD spec.
If you’re asking what format for your video to be in for ARCHIVAL use, as long as the frames are all there, the format is irrelevant (aside from compression.) Many codecs weren’t meant for playback in real time, but merely to store the frames.
Best,
Jeff G
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