Audio delays and dropped stills

[yvesn]

I've just put together my first home vid, but when I burn it to VCD (see below), about 1/5th through the film audio suddenly lags video by about 10 secs. This lag remains the same for the rest of the film. Also, the last 10 minutes of the film is a sequence of 62 stills, of which the last 5 or so do not appear (the subtitles do). Finally, all the stills were set for 8 sec display, but in playback some stay up shorter. Editing was done with Movie Maker 2 and set-up and burning through MyDVD. When I preview the film via MyDVD just before burning everything looks OK. It is only after burn that things go awry. I have tried twice, using both internal and extrenal burners (Sony 510). Result is exactlky the same. By the way, it is burned on VCD because file size is below 700mb and MyDVD wont allow me to use DVD. I understand this is a common problem, can it be resilved without complex use of additional software?

thanks guys

[daamon]

Hi yvesn,

If you suspect the burning process, try some different software. These are ones I've seen people refer to as reliable (in no particular order):

Nero Burning ROM
Alcohol 120%
DVDDecrypter
RecordNowMax

Other tools that might be of interest:

DVD2SVCD (does AVI -> (S)VCD and DVD)
VCDEasy

I believe they both burn, at least VCDEasy does.