Pinnacle Studio problems. DVD doesn't work. Any alternative?

[LecTer]

Hi

I've just spend the last three days editing 3 hours of DV footage in Pinnacle Studio 9. So I was finally done with everything and went to the "make movie" menu. I chose to create it as a dvd with highest quality as possible, and besides that just the ordinary settings (if you want all the settings please do tell). I came back from work and the movie was rendered and burned. But the DVD wouldn't play in my stand alone DVD player! It's a Nintaus N9901 by the way.

I checked and it does support DVD+R (I used an Advanced AZO 8x Verbatim DVD+R disc). Then I tried to pop it into my computer, and WMP just went down trying to play it (I have a dvd codec loaded, and it usually takes everything else). WINDVD played it fine though!

SO! Why did this happen? Can I fix it? If not can I use some other application?

Right now I've got two .m2v files and a .wav file with the soundtrack.

Hope you can help!

Thank You!

[tmh]

When you say "right now I've got....." where do you have these files?

I use Pinnacle for editing and sometimes encoding ("rendering" in Pinnacle lingo) but usually use anothe Authoring (TDA) and Burning program (Nero).

I have successfully done the whole thing from Pinnacle, but only small projects.

[LecTer]

I have them in a folder... I've tried to play them in windvd, and they work fine. So you suggest TDA for authoring?

[northcat_8]

Ah it's nice to see Pinnacle still hasn't made improvements

I have Studio 8 and have never gotten it to make a DVD.

I also use Pinnacle for Capture and edit, I always output to DV-AVI, then use TMPGenc Plus 2.5 to encode to MPEG-2 and TDA to author.

[LecTer]

hmm maybe I should consider that... But TDA? What is that? Cannot find it in the toollist.. I figure it's there... but dunno what TDA is short for

[tmh]

TMPGenc DVD Author (or something like that). Look in the DVD Authoring tools section. Many here use it so there are tons of posts about it.

That's the same method I normally use when using Pinnacle to edit. Either TMPGenc or Procoder for encoding and TDA for authot, Nero to burn.