Media Capacity Strangeness

Martin C wrote on 2/3/2008, 5:17 PM
Anyone seen anything like this before, please?

Just after New Year I 'prepared' a dual-layer output of a recently completed film and started burning the production copies for sale...

Then I took three weeks of - for a holiday and to complete another film editing project.

Upon my return to burning more production copies of the earlier film, I found that DVDA (studio) staunchly declined to oblige claiming that the project was too large for the media and that I should choose large media or reduce the project size (subtext: or do neither and simply don't burn discs)

I've rebooted, tried using each of my dual-layer writers and finally had to 'prepare' a whole new image... which *IS* cheerfully burning to disc, as I write this!!!

What was wrong with the previous image - and/or what else could be causing this to happen, please?

Cheers

Martin C

Comments

MPM wrote on 2/6/2008, 1:52 PM
A pure guess would be that something changed, not necessarily in DVDA... After 3 weeks off I'd imagine the first thing the PC did was check for updates and possibly install them. If something hiccuped... could have damaged files on the hard drive etc... Or it could have had problems booting or firing Windows up. At any rate, maybe it's a good reminder for all of us to back up everything -- in this case restoring/copying the DVD's image file (.img) to a hdd for burning would have probably saved a bit of work.