DVD3A alert question please

xristos wrote on 5/6/2005, 2:50 PM
I'm trying to burn on to a double layer disc and I keep getting a window requesting that I add a chapter marker between 46 mins and 1 hr 10 mins...problem is I selected that the program make an automatic choice and that didn't work...then i added the chapter and I still get the message...I'm stuck...anyone...please??? I asked the question on the Veas forum but all I got was to try NERO but I don't Have that, I just hav this and have been hanging on overnight trying to work it out...am a newbie and would really appreciate som help...thanks

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ro_max wrote on 5/6/2005, 4:28 PM
Did DVDA ask you to add a chapter or to choose a chapter? When I burned my DL disk (which already included about 30 chapters), DVDA asked me to choose the chapter where I wanted the layer break to be. The program never asked me to add any chapters.
xristos wrote on 5/6/2005, 11:09 PM
That is correct ...apparently the program could not find a convenient point but I actually managed to work out that I had to prepare again and then it DID bur but the porduct was terrible...it jumped in certain places(not terribly but noticeable) but then, where I believe the break was for it to use the second layer, the picture stopped stuttered and could not play evenly...it was just a mess...I am losing my hair over this. If you have any suggestions, I'd be most appreciative...
Thanks...
ScottW wrote on 5/7/2005, 9:00 AM
Was the jumping only happening at the layer break? If it was jumping in other places, then you've got something else going on and you need to isolate that first - could be poor quality media, a bad burn, etc.

If the jumping was only at the layer break, first realize that you may at the very least see a pause at the layer break and there's nothing that can be done to avoid that.

To see if the problem is with DVDA, download a copy of CopyToDVD from www.vso-software.fr - they give you a fully functional 30 day free trial. Try burning the DVDA project with CopyToDVD and see how it goes. The CopyToDVD project I burned to DL was so good I couldn't detect the layer break.

--Scott
ro_max wrote on 5/7/2005, 10:56 PM
Couldn't detect the layer break on my DL DVD either (prepared and burned with DVDA 3). As for the jumping around, I would have to agree with Scott.
xristos wrote on 5/8/2005, 1:40 AM
I actually gave up on it....it is sooo expensive to keep trying discs and cosequently I split the project in to 2 halves then burned on regular 4.5 gig DVD minus's...came out perfect....I suspect that the DL discs were either faulty or something is up with my program. The glitches were throughout the film and as I say, the freeze point/break point was the end of any watchable picture....the project totally packed in after that...I will try that program/link you suggested but I must say, after reading some of the other earlier comments on this media. I have a definite reservation now and certain lack of confidence with DL Discs...Maybe those people are right and we should wait till the perfect the media and lower the costs...

Thanks again for all the advice...it's all a learning process...