How to burn disk

ravenstone wrote on 6/15/2011, 12:13 PM

I am using MEP 17 Plus.Having edited my project file I have tried many times without success to burn a DVD disk. Under the Burn Tab i hit the red button and choose the DVD option. I am then presented with the Burning Disk menu which appears to be fine withy one exception. I am using a DVD-R disk as that is what my DVD player reads however at the bottom left of the menu it indicates DVD+R . How do I get the program to recognize the type of disk?

Also when the menu recognized the format of the disk I hit the silver button to start burning. The program starts to encode in MPEG-2 however it indicates 6 cuts and only burns the first cut which is a small portion of the file?

I have read the relevant pages in the manual but they have not solved my problem.

After several hours and several wasted disks I am finding the whole process fustrating and would appreciate any  suggestions. Do I need to download the project from my mini DV camcorder again? Is it possible that the Nero or Windows Media reader(I am in windows 7) are interfering with the burning aspects of MEP17 plus. I still have version 14 of this program loaded so I don't know if this is an issue.

Thanks in advance

 

Comments

john-auvil wrote on 6/15/2011, 12:49 PM

I have always assumed that the media type was recognized automatically. I assumed wrong. I just finished burning a project to a DVD-R, even when the burn dialog at the bottom said DVD+R.

The result appears the smame. I had 1 cut of 6, it eventually went through it all, burned to disc successfully.

I suggest (just to make sure) that youhave downloaded and installed the latest firmware for your DVD burner as well as updating the patch for the Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus and possibling the Burn Routines from the support download (tools) section.

That would be my recommendation. If that sill causes problems, see if you cannot export the project as a MPEG-2 file in the native resolution then open a new project in Movie Edit Pro to burn to disc. Since it will be in the correct format, you should not lose any clarity.

john-auvil wrote on 6/16/2011, 9:04 AM

I think "Cuts" is the wrong term, I think it means "Steps" 1 step of 6 for the encoding/burning process. I burned 1 AVI video, that was less than 70 MB. It still said 1 cut of 6... this is why I think it means steps in the process.