@Eric C

Hi Eric.

If you downloaded the recent patch for movie Edit Pro the other day that John has just mentioned it could be the culprit.

Please have a look at this tread for a link to a possible cure and link to the download needed.

Ray.

@Eric C

Hi Eric

What version number is your VDL as found under Help, About.

It should be 20.0.1.73 if you did not update to the latest patch (20.0.1.79) which has since been withdrawn due to issues.

Which disc type are you selecting Blu-Ray or AVCHD?

Is Surround Sound turned on in the mixer? If it is try turning it off and try burning your project again

John EB

Hi John.

Thanks

I am trying to code a BLURAU in AC3 STEREO.
I have the same problem with AVCHD disc.

I was in 20.0.1.73 and upgraded to 20.0.1.79 yesterday : same issue.

How do you access the soudn mixer to check if Surround is turned off?

Eric

Windows Pro N 20H2 V 19042.804

@Eric C

Hi Eric.

If you downloaded the recent patch for movie Edit Pro the other day that John has just mentioned it could be the culprit.

Please have a look at this tread for a link to a possible cure and link to the download needed.

Ray.

 

Hi Ray

Thanks.

I am using Video Deluxe 2021 (and for years), not Movie Edit Pro. Checked the thread but don't see what's the problem described.
I have already tried to unsinstall VDL, delete install folders, Uninstall Windows 10N media pack, CCleaner pass, reinstall everything , under Tech Support investigations. No change. I'm going nuts. (or bananas, or both)

@Eric C

Hi Eric.

You have confirmed you downloaded the latest update (20.0.1.79.) yesterday so look for the reply from shgrude in the link to the other thread I gave.

Ray.

@Eric C

Hi

Video Deluxe is the European name for Movie Edit Pro - they are the same program.

To open the Mixer press the M key, if Surround Sound is activated it will look like this

I tested in 20.0.1.79 and do not get the error message with or without the Surround Sound turned on.

HTH

JohnEB

@Eric C

Hi

Video Deluxe is the European name for Movie Edit Pro - they are the same program.

To open the Mixer press the M key, if Surround Sound is activated it will look like this

I tested in 20.0.1.79 and do not get the error message with or without the Surround Sound turned on.

HTH

JohnEB

Hi John

Thanks - didn't know They were using a different software name.

Mixer 5.1 is turned Off.

Basicallt take support blamed it on my windows Pro N version. But Microsoft clearly stated that actiavting the embedded Media Pack turns this version N in to regular Non N version.

I wouldn't like to go through reinstallating windows...

@Eric C

Hi Eric.

You have confirmed you downloaded the latest update (20.0.1.79.) yesterday so look for the reply from shgrude in the link to the other thread I gave.

Ray.

Hi Ray

Thanks for your guidelines. Visual was installed on my PC, but just in case I re installed VisualC+ as per the link.

No change on my error creating Blu ray.😭

Hi Guys

What's your feeling about creating BLURAYS in Mpeg2 instead of H264 in termes of quality?
Any idea of what would be the minumum bit rate for a good HD bluray?

Right now that seems the only work around I have.
I may also try to install another VDL on my laptop to burn BR's, but ity means I have to transfert all the files in the same diretcory structrure in the laptop 😵

@Eric C

Sorry Eric but although we have a couple of Blu-Ray players in the house I tend to stream my own creations rather than burn discs or put them onto USB sticks. I don't have any disks lying around to try out.

Ray.

@Eric C

Sorry Eric but although we have a couple of Blu-Ray players in the house I tend to stream my own creations rather than burn discs or put them onto USB sticks. I don't have any disks lying around to try out.

 

Ray.

Thanks Ray. I like hardcopies for archiving purposes in fact. I'm a boomer 😂

@Eric C

What's your feeling about creating BLURAYS in Mpeg2 instead of H264 in termes of quality?

Shouldn't make any difference, only the size will be more for MPEG 2.

Any idea of what would be the minumum bit rate for a good HD bluray?

Unless you have space problem, just use MEP's default bitrates when it "burns" the Bluray file.

I may also try to install another VDL on my laptop to burn BR's, but ity means I have to transfert all the files in the same diretcory structrure in the laptop

Not so. You can "burn" to ISO (the disk image file) and then just transfer that single file to your machine with the burner. In fact, I don't use MEP to burn anything; I always make the ISO first then check it in VLC Player, then burn to disk with Imgburn.

Choose Image Recorder in step 1 on the Bluray Burn screen:

You can flick between MPEG 2 and MP4 (H264) to see the difference in size. If MPEG 2 exceeds the disk space, click on "Encoder Settings then click "Adapt Bit Rate". MEP will reduce the MPEG 2 bitrate to fit your project onto the BR disk.

Nothing wrong with being a Boomer, despite what my 21yo daughter would say! 😀

@Eric C

Archiving is an interesting point.

Commercial discs are stamped not burned. Their shelf life if kept in a good storage environment is very good. My first CD I ever bought, 'Sultans of Swing' still plays without a fault. The same has been true for commercial Blu-ray and DVD discs.

But a lot of my early burned discs eventually gave up the ghost. I had tons of them and checking their health on a regular basis became too time consuming as I always had more than one copy of each disc content. I have never lost data over the years but it became impractical to keep checking them every six months or so.

So now everything is on 4TB hard drives and all I have to do is connect one and leaving it checking itself in the background every now and again.

Bliss.

I suppose it depends on how much data anyone has but personally I'm up to about 12TB of archived video and still images and each year (with the last year being an exception) the amount of recorded data has at least doubled as resolutions have increased.

Ray.

@Eric C

Hi

Should have asked this earlier.

In the Burn settings, is the audio set to Stereo as shown in the image sequence below

If it is can you post a screenshot of your Encoder settings dialog (middle image above)

John EB

@Eric C

Hi

Should have asked this earlier.

In the Burn settings, is the audio set to Stereo as shown in the image sequence below

If it is can you post a screenshot of your Encoder settings dialog (middle image above)

John EB

Hi John

Thanks for your message.
Yes, the encoder Set up is H264 / AC3 /STEREO.
That's the whole issue, when burning a BR, the error message says " audio format not supported, please select stereo", as if I had selected 5.1! But no it's stereo.

This drives me crazy.
I have done a lot of things with tech support, no solution. They claim there is no other cases, and they can't reproduce it.

FYI i have been able to encode in H264 /AC3 Stereo with another app than VDL. So I don't think it's a Windows 10 N+Mediapack issue. I believe VDL has screwed up a flag somewhere in windows....

@Eric C

Archiving is an interesting point.

Commercial discs are stamped not burned. Their shelf life if kept in a good storage environment is very good. My first CD I ever bought, 'Sultans of Swing' still plays without a fault. The same has been true for commercial Blu-ray and DVD discs.

But a lot of my early burned discs eventually gave up the ghost. I had tons of them and checking their health on a regular basis became too time consuming as I always had more than one copy of each disc content. I have never lost data over the years but it became impractical to keep checking them every six months or so.

So now everything is on 4TB hard drives and all I have to do is connect one and leaving it checking itself in the background every now and again.

Bliss.

I suppose it depends on how much data anyone has but personally I'm up to about 12TB of archived video and still images and each year (with the last year being an exception) the amount of recorded data has at least doubled as resolutions have increased.

Ray.

Hi Ray, thanks
yes burned DVD can lost their pits over (lo,g) time.
What I do is that I usually burn two of them, at low speed, and keep them in a box in a "good place". I also buy premium brands, not chinese unknown, also I know they are only a few manufacturing plants for 100 brands or so. I also know that quality control in production can lead to high class products and second choice products Anyway I usually buy Verbatim ones.

Hard disks doesnt' suffer this, but you should ave a RAID mirror for safety.

Currently my PC have 8 TB in raid + 2 external 4TB raid housings. Still running out of place.
 

@Eric C

Hi Eric.

There is no need for raid if the disks are in storage. I always have two copies of finished material on site and one copy off site at my sons' house. He has his off site backups with me. I have two 1TB internal drives for current material in use. One external drive with the last year of material on it constantly connected. My C: drive is constantly updated to a second 'clone' drive ready in case of failure using AomiBackupper. I have yet to lose any data since 1993. (windows 3.1) although a lot of the very early early data is almost useless.

I have two rooms adjacent to each other with about 4,000 vinyl singles, about 500 LPs, 200ish 12" singles around 400 CDs and 420 10" open real tapes, assorted mini discs and cassette tapes. I have not kept tabs on my DVD / Blu-ray collection but under 100.

I don't have much room left for additional optical discs 😂

Ray.

@Eric C

Hi Eric.

There is no need for raid if the disks are in storage. I always have two copies of finished material on site and one copy off site at my sons' house. He has his off site backups with me. I have two 1TB internal drives for current material in use. One external drive with the last year of material on it constantly connected. My C: drive is constantly updated to a second 'clone' drive ready in case of failure using AomiBackupper. I have yet to lose any data since 1993. (windows 3.1) although a lot of the very early early data is almost useless.

I have two rooms adjacent to each other with about 4,000 vinyl singles, about 500 LPs, 200ish 12" singles around 400 CDs and 420 10" open real tapes, assorted mini discs and cassette tapes. I have not kept tabs on my DVD / Blu-ray collection but under 100.

I don't have much room left for additional optical discs 😂

Ray.

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@CubeAce

Hope those are downstairs rooms, Ray, as my rough calculation is about 500kg!

Terry

@terrypin

Hi Terry.

I think it is much heavier than that. 😂 I have a 15" sub-woofer that weighs in at about 50KG and a tape machine that is about 35 KG plus a lot of other equipment.

Everything is on concrete flooring on hardwood teak shelving and cabinets I made from old 1950s school lockers back in the 80s. My 'room within a room' took me three months to complete. Albums and CDs are in the room and the tapes and singles are in the room next door sharing it with the household boiler 😁. They are housed in old kitchen cupboard units we took out when the kitchen was first remodeled when we first moved in. Our back garden is very small so I had no option for a 'shed' 😉.

50kg! My first speakers were a nice pair of Richard Allan Pavane and I used to think those were heavy, but googling tells me they were about 25kg each.

Continuing OT (I blame you as usual), I’m curious to know about your physical filing structure? How do you respond to a sudden impulse to hear XYZ again?

Terry

Maybe we are drifting away from the subject of the post?😁

@terrypin

Hi Terry.

Ah! the sub-woofer has a 750w 5.1 class AB power amp built in. The transformer is huge. The satellite speakers are 17KG each. 😆 Then the Two Ram Studio Speakers are well over 27KG each and I have a couple of Rogers SP1 speakers lying around somewhere. (lightweights).

Ah. Each Drive has a label. (Good start) on the drive and the box. Each label tells me the year or years.

I have a folder tree. First are folders with a 'year' plus one 'Content' folder. The content folder has, event / date / location information on it (For if I don't remember exactly when something was done, and In each year folder are sub folders marked Documents, Program backups, Photo, Video, Music. Each of those folders are sub divided into months in which I place further folders with individual descriptions of content. The photo folder is divided into 'Me' and 'Charity' folders so 'me' is for my own pleasure and 'Charity' is for the charity associated work I do when I can.

I do backups manually but it doesn't take long. I rarely have a folder larger than 64GB for Video or Photo. Most are much smaller except 'Charity' folders that can get much larger.

If I do a video project or edit my still raw images, the project is put into another folder alongside it's parent folder. Using the folder title 'Edited'.

Email backups are done into one folder on one of the two internal hard drives but I seldom keep emails beyond six years The service provider gives me 25GB of email storage space so I don't worry too much about emails.

Ray.