DVD Play-Back is Blank!

Renald wrote on 1/17/2005, 7:24 PM

I completed the editing of my first movie using Movie Studio+DVD. The movie is about an hour long and includes a few stills along the way.

I duly filed the movie as a project and instructed MS to "render" it, choosing "burn DVD" as my objective. I also selected "stretch video" and "fast video" , then waited for the movie to be rendered. This took, believe it or not, just under four hours, during which time I could see the entire movie going slowly by in the video screen of MS.

I then installed and opened DVD Architect Studio and followed instructions to burn the DVD. I used a normal, SONY 4.7 GB DVD-R disc . The burning took about seven minutes and when I look under "properties" in my PC, I see a file on the disc (type "CD Drive" and File System "UDF") of about 1.2 MB.

But when I tried to view the disc either on my PC or my DVD player (both of which play other DVDs flawlessly), this disc produced either nothing or a shaded blue screen with the words MAIN MENU at the top of the screen. The disc whirs away for a few minutes, then stops dead, prducing neither image nor sound.

I cannot imagine what I could have done wrong as I thought I was following manual instructions throughout. Any ideas?

Many thanks for any advice!

Renald

Comments

ScottW wrote on 1/17/2005, 7:41 PM

It seems unlikely that a burn of a 1 hour video could have taken 7 minutes (unless you were buring better than 8x, which isn't all that common yet), nor would it fit in 1.2MB.

DVDA and DVDAS have always had problems with various burners - my guess is that this is another example of said. You may need to cinsider a seperate burning aplication such as Nero or CopyToDVD to perform your actual burning, and just let DVDAS prepare the project.

Renald wrote on 1/18/2005, 6:46 AM

Thanks, Scott. I Tried using Nero and MyDVD but that didn't work either, so I figured the problem was with the file.

Ian, in the MS forum, suggested rendering part of the file into an MPEG2 file and playing it on my PC before attempting to burn a disc. I did that, and the movie was rendered OK, but not the sound. Don't know what went wrong there.

But I'm half way there!

Renald

ScottW wrote on 1/18/2005, 7:00 AM

If you have a software DVD player on your PC, you should be able to double-click on the VIDEO_TS.IFO file in the DVD VIDEO_TS directory and see if the DVD plays that way.

Your audio probably got rendered as part of the MPEG-2 file, I've not played with WM Player with these types of files to know whether it can decode MPEG-2 audio or not.

If the VIDEO_TS.IFO file plays ok, then you've probably got some sort of issue with your burner.