Burning Pinnacle 9 DVD images

[acrisp]

I have just bought Pinnacle Studio 9. I had Studio 8 but was unable to burn using it because it did not support my DVD burner. I have an NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A burner.

I used Pinnacle Studio 9 to create disc content but did not burn it to disc. I then tried to burn it to a Memorex DVD+RW disc. It burnt it OK but when I tried to play it on my home DVD player (a Sony DVP-S7700) it does not recognise the disc. This is also true when I put the disc in both of my DVD players on my PC.

So I have two questions really. Is there a way that I can make Pinnacle Studio burn DVDs that my home DVD player supports (according to Sony it supports DVD+RW discs)? If not, can I take the disc content that I burnt to my hard disk and burn it using another program (I have Nero Express SE installed with the PC)? If I can, how do I do it?

Thanks in advance,

Alastair

[piano632]

Yes, you can burn the disc image made by Pinnacle using another program. Just locate the DVD file folder that Pinnacle created and look inside for the folders named VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. Use those 2 folders to create a DVD using another program such as Nero. With Nero, just select the DVD-Video template and load in those 2 folders. Rename VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS into all CAPS if they aren't already.

[acrisp]

Thanks for the reply. Slight problem though! When I look at the DVD folder that Pinnacle has created the Video_TS folder exists but no Audio_TS folder exists.

Also, will all of the menus that I created be automatically captured or will I have to use the burning program (Nero in this case) to actually create the menus and chapters?

[jtoolman2000]

ONLY thake the files that live inside the VIDEO_TS folder that studio made for you and drag then into the VIDEO_TS folder that Nero made for you when choosing the DVD/Movie template. Burn.

Do not drag the folders into Nero, just the files. I assume you did not create and IMAGE file. That is, a single file that has to be image burned.

It's funny, you say that Stidio does not recognize your NEC burner. I had an external NEC 1300 series DVD-+RW and it worked with Studio 8. I now have version 9 but no longer have the NEC burner so I can't say if it would have worked with 9 or not. I wonder if they reduced the # of burners it could use. Have you updated your studio 9 to the latest patch? That might help.