Burn option - DVD/SD card

FF22 wrote on 5/15/2020, 8:03 AM

I was wondering about actually burning my China project to a DVD. Then I see under options: DVD/SD Card.

Is there actually a way to create a DVD-menu system on an sd card, where you can chose which Chapter to play and skip around the Movie Chapters like you can with an actual DVD Player and dvd disk? Or does this merely another way to exporting the movie to mp4 (or other format)?

Frankly, I have not burned a dvd in years, obviously finding just the one mp4 file handy and transportable. But the idea of creating a "dvd style menu" is intriguing if possible.

Thanks for info

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johnebaker wrote on 5/15/2020, 1:31 PM

@FF22

. . . . is there actually a way to create a DVD-menu system on an sd card . . . .

Yes, however does your player support playing from a SD card and what file structure does it need ie an ISO image or the actual disc file structure - check the player manual?

From your previous posts on this project the video and images appear to be Full HD (1920 x 1080) or better.

Are you wanting to burn a DVD at the lower resolution of 720 x 576 (PAL) or 720 x 480 (NTSC) or Blu-Ray at 1920 x 1080 ?

Note: if you are sending a copy to friends or family then burn to disc - I burn both a DVD and Blu-Ray (BD) discs to cater for both types of player.

John EB

FF22 wrote on 5/15/2020, 1:45 PM

@FF22

Hi

. . . . is there actually a way to create a DVD-menu system on an sd card . . . .

Yes, however does your player support playing from a SD card and what file structure does it need ie an ISO image or the actual disc file structure - check the player manual?

From your previous posts on this project the video and images appear to be Full HD (1920 x 1080) or better.

Are you wanting to burn a DVD at the lower resolution of 720 x 576 (PAL) or 720 x 480 (NTSC) or Blu-Ray at 1920 x 1080 ?

Note: if you are sending a copy to friends or family then burn to disc - I burn both a DVD and Blu-Ray (BD) discs to cater for both types of player.

John EB

Thanks again for a reply.

Aha. I guess I was expecting an sd-card result that would play in a computer or tablet but show the menu structure. I have absolutely no idea what my dvd players supports in this regard.

But you have triggered other questions due to your reply.

Yes, the 'show' is 1920x1080. Does this mean Blue-Ray is the only option to maintain that scale?

I seem to have created one more, well, interesting result. Having not burned a dvd in years, I put one in that you can print on. Well, apparently that is not large enough for my mega-extravaganza. So I guess I told it to split it. But I must have done something else, too, since it did not burn the disk but created the dvd-image.

But I do have (in the dusty recesses of my cabinet), Double Layer (is it?) disks. But now the burner only seems to want to create the computer image and not actually burn the disk. Went through the manual and it does not help me.

How do I go about just physically writing a dvd not computer/disk images? And will a DL deal with two hour project or do I still need to split it in some fashion. Or does it also depend on 1920x1080 versus 720x480?

Thanks for your immense patience.

As an aside, now as I try re-adding chapter markers again, MEP keeps crashing as I move through to place them.

And one more thing - it never sends the crash log!!!

johnebaker wrote on 5/15/2020, 2:19 PM

@FF22

. . . . the 'show' is 1920x1080. Does this mean Blue-Ray is the only option to maintain that scale? . . . .

That and AVCHD, most users will burn to Blu-Ray especially if the movie is over 20 - 30 mins long.

I have never used AVCHD option which is meant to burn a movie up to 20 minute long to a standard DVD disc, however you still need a BD player to play it.

This IMHO is an odd option as you can burn standard Blu-Ray to DVD disk so long as the movie is less than 20 - 30 mins long - again you need a BD player to play it.

. . . . now the burner only seems to want to create the computer image and not actually burn the disk . . . .

Sounds like it is using the Image Recorder - in the Burn dialog does it say Image Recorder at the top? If so click the dropdown and select your burner.

. . . . will a DL deal with two hour project or do I still need to split it in some fashion . . . .

If your project is 2 hours long then it must be slightly larger than the BD (4.7GB) disc capacity and you may get a message asking if you want MEP to automatically adjust the bitrate to fit, or you have some discs that have reduced capacity, due to age, poor storage or are economy discs and have many 'bad sectors' which cannot be recorded on - most discs have a few bad sectors, however normally they are small in number and do not significantly reduce capacity.

A DL disc will hold approx 3hrs 50 min of video and MEP will decide automatically where the split point is to switch layers - you do not need to do anything regarding the split point.

I assume as you have some 'dusty' DL disks laying around that your burner supports DL discs.

Re the crashing - this may be due to lag with your system not keeping up with you moving through the timeline - I had this with my old system, which was similar spec processor to yours, if I did too many actions before it had caught up with me.

Crash log issue may be due to server load or the connection dropping - though you would normally get a message saying could not connect to the server.

HTH

John EB