HELP....

PEK wrote on 4/5/2003, 7:48 AM
I am using DVD Movie Factory 2 with a Toshiba SR5002 DVD-R. I have downloaded the patch that is supposed to work for the Toshiba. I keep getting a general error that their is a problem with the software when trying make a DVD with a few mpeg files on it. Looking into it, I noticed that some were 29.000 (NTSC) and some 25.000 (PAL). Could this cause the error. I have had no problem doing it to a DVD-rw but wont go to DVD-r.

Thanks
pnrkennedy@cox.net

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/5/2003, 9:44 AM
If you are sending the exact same project to a DVD-R that you just sent to a DVD-RW and it doesn’t work, it is definitely not the project files or mpegs. You should not be mixing NTSC and PAL mpegs in the same project anyway. I would imaging that DVD MovieFactory2 re-encoded one on of them to make them all consistent so you’re probably loosing some quality in the mpeg that doesn’t match the project settings. If you created them, you should do so with the same template either all NTSC or all PAL depending on what country you’re authoring for.

What I normally do is click the option in DVD MovieFactory 2 that says Create DVD Folders:. Then I burn that to a DVD-RW and watch it to make sure I like the results. If I do, I just go back and re-burn the folders to a DVD-R without any other processing. This should work. If it doesn’t there is something wrong with the burn process in DVD MovieFactory 2. You should report this to Ulead.

The good news is, you now have the authored DVD in the folders and you can use any burning program that supports DVD’s to burn it. I would start with the one that came bundled with your DVD burner since the manufacturer may have actually tested it and certified it to work with your burner. At that point its just a file transfer to the DVD.

~jr
PEK wrote on 4/5/2003, 12:04 PM
JR
I appreciate your help with this. I have wasted a lot of discs and time trying to get this to work. I am using MPEGs that were downloaded from the web. Any suggestion on what to use to get those PAl format MPEGS into NTSC format so that I can put them on a disc as well?

Thanks again
Pat
JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/5/2003, 3:24 PM
Pat, You have to resample the PAL mpegs to do the framerate conversion. If you start new project in VideoFactory and make it NTSC, and then drop the PAL mpegs into it and do a Make Movie to disk, it should convert them to NTSC for you. You will loose some quality because of the re-encoding but that’s unavoidable. There are other programs like TMPGEnc that will also do the conversion for you.

~jr