Having create/burn problem with MF2

[captflem]

I'm having a problem when I go to create my DVD's with MF2. My project looks good and plays fine durning preview. When I create the video_TS and/or an ISO it only makes part of the video clips. I have 1 menu and 6 video clips on it. It says the project is 3.7 GB in the preview but when its done creating its only 1 GB . The thumbnails are all there but only 1 video will play. The other 5 clips only play for 2 seconds and thats it. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED, I'M NEW AT THIS AND GETTING VERY FRUSTRATED. THANK YOU !!
I have a Full updated version of MF2
Twin 80 GB WD hard drives ( Disk space not a problem)

[kitprice]

captflem,

I am having the same exact problem. MF2 would correctly burn to DVD when the file was an unmodified WinTV capture. Once I cut it with nanoPEG or did any editting with nanoPEG it would skip the file and not mix video/audio. I am using nanoPEG 2.2. Not sure if the newer versions improve on this issue, but TMPGEnc doesn't work well for me at all.

I had a clip that was just over a GB. I used NanoFix on it. I got info on it from http://www.shspvr.com. there is a forum there with some interesting info you might want to check out. Anyway when I ran NanoFix on the file the video/audio did not get out of sync at all, at least not to my comprehension. When I tried this on a larger file, approximately 1.6 GB the video/audio got out of sync toward the end. The file is about 1hr 13min. It started to get noticably out of sync about 40 or 45 minutes into it.

I thought I had resolved the issue, apparently not...............wait, I stumbled onto something else. I read an article from one of these forums, either this one or the SHSpvr forum, a guy said to (remux)re-multiplex for SVCD with nanoPEG. If you do this you will get a prompt telling you that it is not compatible, ignore that and say "yes". Choose your file and let it go to work for you. Late last night I applied this to 3 files, they al looked good, the video/audio at the end was still in sync and the picture quality was the same. MF2 comprehended them as far as I know, I won't be sure until I get back home and see.

Give this a try, take your mpeg file that you editted with nanoPEG and remux it for SVCD with nanoPEG, see if MF2 likes it and see if it looks as good as your original through a standalone DVD player.

I hope this works for us. Between getting "capturing" down to a science, working with encoders, and both versions of MF, it has been almost 3 weeks now and I am starting to regret this whole idea.

[Specialist]

Success hinges on one's source files.

My observations:

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 is designed to allow users of home video cameras convert DV source material to MPEG for disc authoring.

For that purpose, it works well.

If one starts with clean DV .avi files, one will have success.

If one starts with proprietary MPEG files captured by 3rd party devices or if one starts with MPEG files that have been 'ripped' by 3rd party software utilities, then any number of problems can arise.

By the way, the tech support FAQ located here...

http://www.ulead.com/tech/dmf/dmf2faq.htm

...seems to be a worthwhile read.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[kitprice]

All,

I think I found a solution to MF SE & MF 2's compatibility problem with third-party editted moegs. I just started using Ulead's Video Studio 7 for editting, and I was able to crop(or trim) a couple mpegs and they looked and sounded great. I will work with this a little more and let you all know the outcomes.