Burning from DVDA - mostly good.

PeterWright wrote on 8/5/2004, 2:02 AM

Got an order for 50 DVDs this morning, so I started burning on my background PC ...

Because it has a "Burn Another Disk?" function for multiple copies, I used "Record Now DX", which was bundled with my LiteOn 411S burner, to begin with.

I used Ritek G04 printable DVD-Rs. After about half a dozen, I got a failed burn - a coaster. After getting two more out of 14, I decided to change tactics.

Till the recent update of DVDA2, I couldn't burn MINUS discs from DVDA, but now that it's been fixed I just opened a new project, and pointed it to the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders (which were created years ago with SpruceUp.)

So far it's burned 25 without a coaster, so I'll use it all the time in future.

The only gripe is ... the lack of Multiple Burn options - to start another burn, it's five clicks instead of one, but for 50 DVDs that's 250 clicks instead of 50.

Request for next update ..........

Comments

Randy Brown wrote on 8/5/2004, 6:55 AM

"Request for next update"

I would agree, that would be nice.
Randy

johnmeyer wrote on 8/5/2004, 10:36 AM

I use Nero for all burns. When burning multiple copies, it is ZERO clicks. The disk automatically pops out, you put a new disk in, and as soon as you close the drawer and the disk spins up, the next copy starts. I use the old Nero 5.5, which you can get on eBay for about $5.

See:

Nero to Burn DVD

PeterWright wrote on 8/5/2004, 5:50 PM

Thanks John - I have Nero 5 somewhere, so I'll give it a try.

Someone somewhere mentioned a possible difference between burning a data DVD, which is what I'd normally do with Nero, Record NowDX etc, and using an authoring program such as DVDA.

I can't find the post, but they said the difference was something to do with burning lead in and lead outs.

Have you come across this - is there any difference in fact?

[edit: I just read the thread you linked to, John and noted your Nero method with ISO, creating folders etc.....]

JaysonHolovacs wrote on 8/6/2004, 8:46 AM

DVD-A2 does disc authoring and burning. That means it's producing content files(menus and everything) and copying them to the disc. Data burners such as Nero/Roxio just copy files to the disc; they have no capability to create them in the first place. However, you can do just the Prepare step in DVD-A, then do the actual data burning in Nero with the files that DVD-A created.

If you are asking whether a disc burned by Nero from DVD-A files are any different from a disc burned directly in DVD-Afrom the same files, I don't think so. Both work fine on my DVD player(although DVD-A burning sometimes fails for me, so I use Roxio).

-Jayson