My first movie freezes...

sonyman wrote on 1/3/2011, 7:20 PM
My Dell with an XP OS has the Motion Picture Browser that came with my Sony HDR-SR12. Worked great for years but just died so I bought VMS HD platinum on 12/29. I burned my first movie on a Sony Accucore DVD but the picture freezes at five
seconds. Burned again but the pictures freezes at four minutes.
Clean and defrag, uninstall and reinstall, what am I doing wrong?
Should I reinstall to a new harddrive and make it independent?

Comments

MSmart wrote on 1/3/2011, 9:50 PM
Before we get into needing more information about your video format, project properties, render settings and such.....

What format are your Sony Accucore DVDs? -R, +R, +/-R? It could be that your player doesn't like that type of disc.

Did you use DVD Architect Studio to burn your discs?

Basically, before we can tell you what you may have done wrong, we need to know what you did.
sonyman wrote on 1/3/2011, 11:14 PM
Video Format - Full HD 1080 60i NTSC

Project Properties
Video
Template HD 1080-60i (1920x1080. 29970 fps)
Width 1920 Field Upper Field First
Height 1080 Pixel 1.0 square
Frame 29.970 NTSC
Full Resolution Good
Deinterlace method Blend Fields

(checked) Adjust source media to match project

Audio
Surround sound 5.1
Sample rate 44,100
Bit depth 16
Resample Good

Ruler
Ruler time SMPTE drop (29.97 FPS, video)
Start time 0
Beats 120
Beats 4
Note Quarter

Render settings...?

I believe these DVD's are +R.

The first DVDs I tried to burn I did use Architect Studio but there was an error
and it failed. I then tried from the timeline and the burn was successful - I received the message that the burn was good with no errors. I could not get it to play continuously in either of my computers ( an older and a newer model )
or in either of my DVD players ( an older and a newer model ).

These DVDs and DVD players did work with the Motion Picture Browser last year.
Does Sony even make a Motion Picture Browser software?
njdiver85 wrote on 1/4/2011, 10:02 AM
I will admit I'm very new to this, but I had a similiar issue with my burned DVD's (burning AVCHD files to them) and it was related to the bit rate. Check the disk properties in windows explorer of your disks that don't work and see if it is too high.

I did try to force DVDA to lower the bit rate under "optimize", but I found in most cases, the bit rate remained unchanged. I asked about this in another post but did not get an answer as to why DVDA bit rate settings won't stick.