Audio CD Burning Revisited

haywire wrote on 1/25/2002, 6:23 AM

I'm experiencing a problem with VV3 and Win2k (I think) when burning a CD from the timeline. On my Win98SE setup, I can place track markers as close as I want to the beginning of a song (just a few samples)and when played back in any player, the track starts at the beginning beautifully.

With my Win2k set up, if I do the above, the tracks start about a half second into the song. I've done some testing, trying to determine the amount of 'overshoot', but it seems to be rather hit and miss, in other words, the 'overshoot' varies despite my attempt to place the track markers at a specified time before the actual start of the wav file. This occurred regardless of the burning speed.

I can burn CDs as described above with CD Architect (on the Win98SE machine), and Roxio's EZ CD Creater 5.0 on either machine with no problems, so I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

Have I missed an offset setting somewhere?

WIN2k PIII 866
384MRAM
HP CD Writer Plus (Mitsumi CR-48X5TE)*x burner

WIN98SE PIII 450
256MRAM
Phillips CDD3801/66 2x burner

Thanks
Michael

Comments

DavidW12 wrote on 1/25/2002, 3:15 PM

I've never burned any CDs directly from VV3, so I may be out in left field here. Do you have any of the pre-roll features in VV3 enabled?

haywire wrote on 1/27/2002, 4:32 AM

I don't believe that the test pattern/test tone/preroll-postroll settings that greet you when you render video, have anything to do with burning audio CD's. But thank you for the response. I did try placing the track markers in the timeline while quantized to frames to see if I needed a full audio frame before the first sample of music. The results were hit and miss, sometimes the finalized CD played some tracks correctly, others about a half second into the song. All the data was burned to the CD. In other words, it will play from beginning to end just fine.

I've tested with Win98SE, and can place the track markers just a sample away from the beginning of the song with no bad track starts. All tests are Disk at Once. Still testing in Win2k.

Michael