DVDA3-Can't make DVD

dan-hedrick wrote on 4/12/2010, 1:34 AM
System: New HP Pavilion Elete HPE, AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core Processor, 8 GB Ram, Windows 7 - 64 Bit, ATI Radeon HD4350 Graphics Card with 512 MB dedicated graphics memory.

I know some may think that VVMS6 and DVDA3 are obsolete, but I have had good luck with them. I successfully made a DVD of three movies pieced together into a single DVD...despite reports that VMS and DVDA are not compatible with Windows 7.

But now I can sucessfully make a slide show video , with music and have no problems. Here are the steps I take when I complete the slide show in VMS6: MAKE MOVIE......SAVE TO HARD DRIVE....(Format Main Concept MPEG2(*mpg). Then I open up DVDA3, locate the project....Select "MAKE DVD"......Select "BURN" (prepare current project and burn it to a DVD)....Then I have tried both..."PREPARE CURRENT PROJECT" and "USE PREVIOUSLY PREPARED PROJECT". I do not the the option of selecting the DVD drive for the target DVD....Just "ISO Image Writer".
In both cases, DVDA goes through the processes including "Burning" and says the burn is successful....BUT, nothing happens on the DVD Drive.
I get no error messages at all and every thing seems to work perfecftly except for the final stage of burning the project to a DVD.

Oh...one more thing. By using various tricks, I was able to "drag" the DVDA project over to my DVD Drive by placing two windows side by side. I was able to sucessfully make a DVD that plays on my computer but not on a DVD player.
Please help!!!!.
lcdrdan

Comments

TOG62 wrote on 4/12/2010, 2:55 AM
If I understand correctly you do not see an option to select your DVD writer. However, you have written an ISO image to your hard drive and you could write the image to disc using another program, such as Nero or the free ImgBurn.

I have no experience of this but others have suggested checking 'Skip drive database; autodetect drive capabilities' in General preferences as a possible solution to the missing burner issue.

Mike
dan-hedrick wrote on 4/12/2010, 8:24 AM
TOG62...thanks for your response. I think you are right about using another DVD maker....but I may not have the capability to make different buttons for various chapters.... and I don't really want to invest in new software unless i have to. I do like the features in DVDA.
If anyone else has any suggestions on what I may doing wrong, I'd appreciate hearing from you.

thanks in advance.

lcdrdan
TOG62 wrote on 4/12/2010, 9:41 AM
You may have misunderstood my suggestion. If you make an ISO image with DVDA and write that to disc with another application, such as ImgBurn, the result will be a disc with exactly the same features as if you had written it directly with DVDA, including chapter buttons, etc.

Mike
musicvid10 wrote on 4/13/2010, 8:02 AM
Despite some successes on your end, note that both your software versions came out long before 64-bit OS or Windows 7, so any accommodations you are able to make will be just that; there is no assumption possible that your SW versions should work with newer OS and burner models.
dan-hedrick wrote on 4/13/2010, 10:20 AM
musicvid:
Thanks for the comment.
I realize that I was very lucky that MVS and DVDA work at all with W7, 64 bit. I'm counting my blessings....just trying to improve what I do have and salvage this software until I'm convinced that upgrading will be ok with W7 and 64 bit.

lcdrdan