Problem burning with pinnacle studio 8

[manukreddy]

I have pinnacle studio 8 to create over 30 home video so far (kidz).
In my latest effort I have run into a road block.
The capture from DV/Edit/Render and create dvd but do not burn all work great.
The DVD soft copy plays in the preview window with out a glitch.
Now when I try to burn it into my burner (BTC 1004IM, memorex 4x DVD-R). It burns about 1/4 of the disc and says burn completed successfully.
It is not.
The DVD length should be about 52 mins.

I have already wasted 12 blanks this way. It is always the same size it writes.

I tried changing the menus a bit to move the picture around. Editing out few scenes, nothing seems to help.

I have another project saved and I can burn that in, no problems in the same setup.

If the burn fails, PS8 should say so and stop at the exact scene that failed, so we can edit it out. Instead it claims it is done successfully.
This is driving me nuts.

Any ideas ?
Thanks,

[donpedro]

I would sugest using program that came with your DVD Writer for burning.

Which version of PS8 are you using ?

Buy rewritable DVD and don't waste any more blanks.

[manukreddy]

Pinnacle version 8.1.

Once Pinnacle completes the DVD renderding and disk compilation, I do not see any kind of meaningful files around to us for my other burner SW (roxio).

I do own RW media, unfortunately, PS8 does not like media formated by Roxio, instead it wants to reformat itself.

Formatting takes less that 30 secs, switches to burning disc and sits there forever, doing nothing ;(

[donpedro]

There has been many releases of PS8 after 8.1 that fixed (or not, or made worse) this software. Check their board, support pages.

Again.... I would sugest burning with for example Roxio.

If you don't know how to do that, check post that is in my signature and you might find usefull information there.

Good luck and do some kind of backup before you start playing around with new versions.