[Nigel O’neill]

Sony contacted me, I verified it.

[Nigel O’neill]

[Rich Kutnick] “Several colleagues have given their clients dual-layer disks and a few of them have had problems with this media”

Many DVD burners give you the option to change Booktype / Bitsetting via the burning software to improve disc playback compatibility. I set my DVD+R DL discs to book type DVD-ROM and have had zero returns.

A Booktype (bitsetting) field is present on the lead-in part of a DVD disc. This field is essential for the hardware accessing the data on the disc to identify if it is a DVD-R, DVD+R (or re-writable variants) or DVD-ROM. DVD-R is the oldest and so it is probably the most compatible for DVD players when bought. For this reason, editing the Booktype has some obvious benefits.

To learn how to do this in 2 of the more popular burning software packages, refer to these guides:

Imgburn guide:
https://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_set_booktype_for_blank_dvd_r_w__media_page_2.cfm

Nero guide:
https://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/how_to_set_booktype_for_blank_dvd_r_w__media_page_3.cfm

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[Nigel O’neill]

Graham, that may be true in your case, but you appear to have hijacked the thread from poor Travis who was the original poster of this thread. I am hoping that he will provide me more information about his BSOD. Great that you found a dust bunny solution for your BSOD, but Travis still has the issue.

So Travis, can you provide more detail regarding the BSOD?

[Nigel O’neill]

Until I see that BSOD, it is difficult to assist. It could even be video driver related, or a poorly seated memory module.

All wonderful suggestions, but also potentially red herrings.

[Nigel O’neill]

[Dave Osbun] “or bad power supply”

That is also a possibility. Power supplies degrade about 10% in output a year. I recently had to replace mine as I was experiencing freezes (but not BSOD’s), and drives in my RAID setup kept on failing randomly.

Unless Travis posts the BSOD message, we can only hypothesize as to what the problem could be, not what it is.

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[Nigel O’neill]

[doug skinner] “I was wondering is there was a way to change compression or something to get it to fit.”

Yes, using Mark’s bit rate calculator using one of the render templates, but not directly from the timeline.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Creating a DVD from the Timeline

From the Tools menu, choose Burn Disc, and then choose DVD from the submenu to render your project and burn it to a DVD.

The rendered project can be played in a DVD player or on any computer with a DVD drive.

From the Tools menu, choose Burn Disc, and then choose DVD from the submenu to display the Burn DVD dialog.

Choose a setting from the Video format drop-down list to specify the parameters that should be used for rendering your video stream.

The Audio format box displays the parameters that should be used for rendering your audio stream.

Select recording options for your DVD burner:

Choose a drive from the Burn drive drop-down list to specify the drive you want to use.

From the Burn speed drop-down list, choose the speed at which you want to record. Max will record using the fastest speed possible with your drive; decrease the speed if you have difficulty recording.

Select the Eject when done check box if you want to eject the disc automatically when burning has completed.

Click OK to start rendering your image file and burning your disc.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 12 (x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

I am interested to see where this discussion goes because I got asked last year to consider delivering a 2+ hour concert on a USB stick, but the fat32 limitation plus the lack of menus or a means of navigation seems to kibosh the whole idea.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Brandon

Is there a reason why you are rendering to Best and using 32 bit floating point? As an experiment, set your project to 8 bit and render out as ‘good’.

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[Nigel O’neill]

I have a support request lodged with Sony (reference number 130301-000009). I notice that it is with their development team. My issues were no where near as chronic as yours, but I was experiencing jumping and flickering like the blinking of an eye.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 11 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6