DVD formats

[westhamhammer]

Hi

I am using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 to capture pre-recorded VHS tape,via VCR machine thru' a Canopus ADVC-100 converter. My problem arises when I come to burn captured video to DVD.

I have NEC ND-4551A burner which is double layer drive but if I put double layer DVD+R disk in Premiere tells me "unsupported media"

Does anybody knows a way round this, or a video editing program that will handle double density disks ?

Cheers

[daamon]

Hi westhamhammer,

Welcome to the forums. And, judging by your username, a top bloke too!!!

I've looked up your burner in the "DVD Writers" list (see link in the "Lists" section, on the far left) and it says it supports DVD+R DL at 8x. Someone's posted a comment saying "This burner contain bitsetting for DVD+R, +RW, DL" - I'm not sure what bitsetting is. Maybe look into it and see if that helps.

My suspicion is that it's not the software, but the hardware. But that's only a hunch...

Good luck!

[guns1inger]

Bitsetting makes +R media look like DVD-Rom media to the players. It can sometimes make players that don't support +R media play them.

It won't help you burn them. I suspect the issue is more likely PP not being able to burn DL media. Have you tried looking for a patch or upgrade at Adobe, or writing your DVD structure to the HDD and burning with something else ?

[edDV]

Premiere Pro 1.5 only has limited DVD authoring/burning support intended for "dailies" or preview discs. This changes in v2.0 where limited authoring has been added. They still want you to use Encore for full blown authoring.

The Adobe MPeg2 Encoder has much broader option support and this is expected to be used for export to Encore. That said, none of this has anything to do with dual layer DVD-9 burning. Except for the simple "preview DVD's" supported by Premiere v1.5*, that is an issue for the authoring and burning software that will have DVD-9 support if a recent release.

Specific burner support relies on a driver that should be listed in device manager as "This device is working properly." under properties.


* Neither Premiere Pro 1.5 nor 2.0 spec sheets mention dual layer DVD-9 support.