[Colin Oddy]

Thank you again John for your prompt help.
Im a bit dumbfounded because Ive never donethat proceedure before but have – Im quite sure – used Architect to burn programs and not experienced that problem.
Could that be possible? or is the procedure you desctibe (spitting the Video and Audio rendering) the ONLY possible way to burn a program to disk?

In the mean time Im using Windows DVD Maker – which is a bit of a tragedy really 🙁

regards

colin

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Thank you for the prompt feedback John.
I have the render setting as:
Video for Windows (*.avi)
PAL DV
Description
Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 25 fps, 720×576, Lower field first.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.093. OpenDML compatible.

render Loop Region only
Save project Markers in media file

is this what youd call a “DVD Architect template” and recommend?

regards
Colin

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Exasperated I gave up on Architect several months ago but tonight braved it again.
Unfortunately nothing has changed and the program pauses without completing its burn process.
Here isthe current situation:
Im trying to burn 5 short programs totalling 1.3gb to DVD.
The ‘prepare’ process completes ok and the ‘burn’ process commences and gets to “66%” and pauses.
Now its cancelling and taking an extraordinarily long time to clear.
I cant go back to describe in detail the process but I do recall the log saying that the video “would be compressed”. I wondered why it would do that when the content was only 1.3GB and would easily fit on a 4.7GB DVD. I wonder if that is a clue to the problem Im experiencing.
Any suggestions will be greatfully received.

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

thank you John
ill give it ago and let you know how I go.

many thanks

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Hi again John
I have been burning Architect files with this burner for a while now.
Its just started being difficult with this particular burn.

cheers

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Hello again,
Ive been going quite fine lately with DVD Architect until recently.
Im trying to burn 4 titles on a DVD.
The disk is ‘Preparing’ OK but when I try to ‘Burn’ I hear the disk spinning but the burn stops at 66%. I have to cancel the operation as it sits on 66% and wont progress.

Ive used 8 DVD disks so far and its the same result each time.

Initially I thought it might be because the program material was longer in duration than the disk could hold (in the popup bar at bottom of screen I had a RED signal for “Disc Space Used: 4.7GB”.

I edit the program material to make is shorter in duration and now I see a YELLOW signal with “Disc Space Used: 3.9GB”.
I figure THIS should now be working – shouldnt it?

Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

regards

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Thank you again John.
I DID have a clean up of all the useless software Id installed in an attempt to convert a VOB file and Im guessing in that lot was a shared codec.

Thanks for being there John. I apprecite your valuable knowledge and time.

Kind regards

Colin

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Hello John
thanks again for your support.

In the end Architect DID compress the file as you said.
I was attempting to put two titles on that disk but together they were 5.2GB (too big) so I settled for one and it worked just as you said. An awesome relief. 🙂

Now… onto the next project..
it never rains but pours.

Im importing a 640mb AVI to Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.
Everything was fine until I tidied up a few squillion files that Id inadvertently made on the previous project you just helped me with.
In tidying up I may have thrown something out because (even tho it wasnt this project) I can only import and see the Audio component on the time line. No video.

Ive checked the AVI file – it still has both audio and vision components, and Ive reinstalled Movie Studio in case Id deleted a codec in error but still no good – and no video component.

any suggestions please?

kind regards

colin

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Oh? I thought I needed a file under 4.7GB.

ok cool! 🙂
thanks John.
Ill give it a go.

Many thanks again.

Cheers

Colin

[Colin Oddy]

Hello again John
my apologies for ‘disappearing’ last night. I thought later that I should have said Im heading to bed – sorry.

Thank you again for persevering with this.
Im in Brisbane Australia so use the PAL system.
The PAL DV template is the “Video for Windows (*.AVI)” that I mentioned which has as its specifications:

Audio: 48,000 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM Uncompressed.
Video: 25 fps, 720×576, Lower field first.
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.093. OpenDML compatible.
PAL DV video files compatible with Sony Video Capture.

and gives me a 22GB render. 🙁

is this a limitation of Movie Studio I wonder?

regards

Colin

Colin