I just have to get it off my chest!

[shito]

Man, this sucks. I just burned my second DVD+R and it worked!! Why? I haven´t got a f....n clue!!! This is really starting to p... me off! I always thought, after carefully considering the settings in the software one uses, whatever he is trying to do either works or doesn´t. Not the case for me!! I tried to backup an extremely rare Laserdisc to DVD, so I captured the damn thing(s) with Studio 8. Everything went fine, I put in chapters and menus and everything. Audio was in sync (ADVC-50 did a fine job!), authoring went just great, although I had to split the movie on two DVDs as to not loose to much image quality. O.K., I spent a whole bunch of time doing this, authoring, encoding, realizing I screwed up the menu, going back to authoring, encoding again, the whole deal. FINALLY! DONE! Now for the part I considered not worthy to even think about: burning the discs. And this is where the shit hit the fan.

Now I´m here, 10 coasters later, and have finally managed to get two working discs, which, by the way, were each burned in a different way! One of ´em was burned right out of Studio 8 (after producing a couple of coasters which I thought were mostly because of me screwing up the settings), the other was burned from an image produced by Nero 5.10 from the data created by Studio 8. I tried the whole Nero-thing (after I realised in Studio 8 there weren´t really any settings concerning the burning process to be screwed up), everything mentioned here, i.e. burn as ISO/UDF 1.02, watch the file order, try it with the video-DVD-setting, put the AUDIO_TS-folder in there. All I got was more coasters! I´m never gonna have a ring of any kind of condensing moisture on any table in the house again!! By the way, a DVD+RW always worked fine, with every method of burning ever described on this great site (I mean that, vcdhelp.com rocks!), but never a DVD+R, and I tried several brands, Sony, Verbatim, Fujifilm, Intenso ... except for the two I mentioned, one on a Fujifilm-brand , one on a SONY-brand.

Why am I boring you with my petty little story? I don´t know, I just had to get it off my chest, as I stated in the subject. Anyway, I´m gonna keep playing around with my NEC ND-1100A (which DOESN´T support DVD-R/W, as everyone of course knows by now!) and see if I´ll find a method that will work for me everytime.

Thank you for your time. *exit stage left*

Greets from Germany
Konrad

[yg1968]

You may wish to consult this website:

www.dvdplusrw.org

I use Dazzle DVD complete to author and burns and it works very well. From what I have heard, Studio 8 and Nero are a bit buggy. Dazzle DVD complete has a trial version.

Here is a related thread:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=139819

[paintmodel]

You should practice on RW discs, that way you aren't making expensive coasters. By the way, I have had excellent results with Nero. I use Ulead Movie Factory 2 to author, I use it to create the VOB files then drop those into Nero. It actually burns very quickly.

[musher70]

pinnacle 8 sucks anyway, try dvd workshop,once i Spent a
whole week doing the laserdisc import thing, why title were
you capturing anyway, how long was it, which vbr did u use?
what settings did you finally make a disc with, i would really
like to know....