[Lawrence Richards]

This suggestion leaves me scratching my head but when I get back home later I’ll do my darnedest to follow your directions. Thank you!

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Lawrence Richards]

Thanks, Michael. If you feel confident that it’s not a software issue but rather a hardware issue, ill go with that and take it up with my computer guy.
To answer your how old is the system question, somewhere between 3 and 5 years. I bought it used 2 years ago.

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Lawrence Richards]

Michael,

Thank you for getting back to me. It was not my intention to be vague about the steps I took to author and then burn the DVD. The tutorial is a video and there are three of them so there’s a lot of steps. I suppose I can write down each and every pertinent function I did and will certainly do so if you that would help you decipher the issue.

In the meantime I have tried to burn a video file- an mov file that I’ve never had a problem with. What I’ve done: inserted a blank Sony DVD; highlighted the mov file on my desktop; went to FILE… Burn; named the file and clicked “burn.” Although the DVD would start as if it was going to burn, I get a “Burning the disc failed because communication to the disc drive failed. (Error Code 0x80020022)

I then tried an Imation DVD, went through the same basic steps as mentioned above, and all I hear is a ‘sound’ coming from the drive that sounds something like the drive is trying to find something – kind of a stop and go. Finally I get a pop-up asking what I want to do? I say Open in Finder. I then take the same steps to burn the DVD only this time the drive immediately spits out the disc and I get the same error message.

So this said, does this help you identify an issue, issues or solutions?

Thanks again!

Larry

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Lawrence Richards]

I did go thru the tutorial again and was not able to author. I also bought a new spindle of Imations. I tried 2 different Imations and 2 different Sony’s and nada.
Is it possible my DVD drive has gone bad? Is there way to a diagnostic on it myself?
In any case, thanks Noah.

Larry

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Lawrence Richards]

Ah, I get you. Ok. This should help: I’m tasked with being in charge of a 3 camera shoot and while I have a P2, the other guys only have miniDV so I’m shooting in miniDV to best match their footage. I am however, shooting some B-Roll in HD so if there’s something I can do at least in my camera to help the miniDV footage I shoot look better – meaning crisper, more HD-like, that would be awesome. I mean with all the settins available, there must be something I can do other than just setting the camera to 480i/30fps.
Appreciate the help, Noah.
Larry

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida

[Lawrence Richards]

Is there anything I can do from a settings point of view or will it just be what it is? Does that make more sense?
Thanks for asking!

Thank you!

Larry R.
Florida