What am I doing wrong?

[petsas]

Hi all,
I recently purchased a TOSHIBA (bulk) DVD-R/RW which I found to be the chippest of its kind on the market. I also purchased a gudget called EZDVDmaker or something used to capture VCR-composite signal into DVD format via USB 2.0 port. The latter came bundled with ULead moviefactory 2 SE software. Although combining both hardware items I succeeded in producing my first DVD using Ulead's DIRECT-DISC option I can not get it to work witn any another option available on the moviefactory2 SE software. That is, if I try to create a project using the standard authoring process everything goes well until I get to the final "Finish" stage.
There, the software issues the message 'Please insert a DVD disc' and kicks me out, although there is a fresh DVD-R disk in the drive just like bebore.
Even deselecting the "record on disk" option and selecting either of the remaining options ('create DVD folders', or 'Create image file') doesn't work, this time issuing the message 'Failed to open disk'. (Which disk in that latter case really, the hard disk?).
Please, help me! Is this a limitation of the software as the version used is the 'SE' version? My operating system is Win2k and I have no other issues in general.
Thanks in advance,
manolis

[sacajaweeda]

Try using a different program to burn the title set your software creates.

[petsas]

Thanks for responding.
The problem is that I can not get the Ulead-moviefactory 2 SE software to create the necessary dvd folders, or image file (*.iso),
that could be used as input data by a diferrent burn-software.
manolis

[northcat_8]

How is your disc space?

You need double the space required because the program will use a temporary folder when making a DVD. It's a good idea to have at least 20 GB free and defragmented.

As far as the ISO goes, what size is it and what file format is your HD?

It sounds like a disc space problem, since the program will not open the hard drive.

I don't think there is a limitation to the software. Movie Factory is a pretty straight forward and dry authoring software there shouldn't be a problem.

[petsas]

Thank you,
I eventually was told that there is no problem. Simply it is a limitation of the SE version of the software which when sold with the EZDVDmaker is not fully functional (It only works in DirectDisk mode but as to the rest of the functions it serves as a demo).
Thanks again,
manolis