Video Glitching

[Bertomotology]

Hi there, I have been burning several DVD's and 97% of the time they burn and work fine on my DVD player. But once in a while I get one that burns fine (no problem there at all) using Premiere Elements 4, yet when I play it on my dvd player, it plays fine till it reaches a certain point, (in this particular case) at the 2 hour mark, and lasts for about 11 minutes, then if I go to next chapter it continues to work fine.

Can someone tell me if this is due to a file corruption? or maybe a point in the DVD where it goes to the 2nd layer (I'm burning Philips DVD+R DL), and put about 3 H & 40 min on one disk. At this point I burned approximately 60 DVD's and had maybe 5 instances where this happens. ALL other disks work 100%. Maybe the problem was caused because I was multitasking when converting the video files? I use DVDVideoSoft ~ Free Studio Manager to convert the file to .VOB format. Is there a way to scan the file for it's integrity?

Oh, and FYI... I have a Core2duo 3.0 Ghz with Win 7 Home premium and 4 Gb's of Ram, and a NEW Asus DVD burner.


Thanks,

...bert

[robjv1]

The issue is likely your DVD media. Many people report issues with consistency with Phillips DL discs, Verbatim DL discs seem to be the only ones that are mostly problem free in the longrun. You also want to do the actual burning of your outputted DVD-Video folders with Imgburn as it will properly set the layer break. A lot of all-in-one applications do wonky things with it in certain circumstances that can cause problems.

[robjv1]

Just out of curiousity, what type of footage are you converting that requires almost 4hrs of video per disc, is it some type of sporting event?

[Bertomotology]

It's a TV series. Putting 4 episodes on on DL disk. rovjv1, if I use imageburn, how will I get my Menus for the shows to appear. I use Premiere elements to create the menus & images etc...?

[robjv1]

Sounds good.

Imgburn is strictly a burning application, just as DVD Lab Pro is strictly an authoring application (menus, chapters, etc.). Premiere is a combo app -- it does both, but as is common with combo apps, it is pretty good at a lot of things but not the best at anything. You may need to go into the settings, but you should be able to output your premiere project to the hard drive instead of a disc. Then you just drop those files into Imgburn and burn them to your disc.

[Bertomotology]

Will this keep my chapter points & menu in place? I often wonder about that. I know I can export the movie to the hard drive. Will imgburn work only on Img files? or mov or avi? I am not too sure what imgburn will accept

[davexnet]

Chapter points and the menu is really the product of the authoring stage.
Set the authoring app. to either create the video_ts folder, or go the extra step and create the iso.
Once it's produced on HDD, use Imgburn to burn the disk.

Imgburn can burn anything; despite it's name it's not just for images.

[Bertomotology]

I think I'm lost

[robjv1]

Are your input files mov and avi? Just do what you are doing now -- use premiere to encode those files, create your menus and chapter stops. At that point, output the project to your hard drive instead of to a blank disc. Thats the only step that will differ. You want to avoid actually burning the disc with premiere. Then find the video_ts and audio_ts folders it created and drop them into or select them with Imgburn. All menus and chapter stops will be retained.

Also note if premiere outputs an ISO file, you'd select the 'write image file to disc' option. If it just outputs the aformentioned folders, select The 'write files / folders' option.

I'd also consider getting some Verbatim DL discs as that is the other weak link in the chain here.

[Bertomotology]

Thank you, that answers my confusion. So Imgburn somehow does something different during the burning process that checks that the DVD's won't skip? like it does with premiere?

[Bertomotology]

davexnet, I got the file prepared as .mpg, now what feature do I select in Imgburn? Do I chose "Writ image file to disk", or "Write files/folders to disk?" or do I "Create image file from files/folders" and then write image file to disk? I just want to make sure I do it right.

...Bert

[davexnet]

Imgburn cannot create a proper DVD from an mpg file. The mpg must first be authored to create the video_ts folder,
with it's VOB, IFO & BUP files. Perhaps something like AVStoDVD would work for you?
This will take the DVD compliant audio and video, do a basic authoring (with simple menu if desired) and then create the video_ts
folder.

[robjv1]

Yeah, your files still need to be in DVD Video format. I assumed you were accomplishing this with Premiere, but I'm unsure of what the output is that you're getting now -- it sounds like you have a bunch of MPG files -- and that isn't the file structure you have on your burned discs, nor will it store your menu design.

What you should end up with is a VIDEO_TS folder with various VOBs contained within it (typically VTS_01.VOB, VTS_02, etc), just as you would find on your burned disc if you pulled it up in Windows.

In the menu where you go to actually burn your disc, can you not instruct it to dump those files to the hard drive instead of selecting your DVD drive?