All, I have a sticky situation I was hoping you could help me with. Recently I was given some footage on discs that I would really like to have. It was given to me by a group of people who need the footage for a competition. For whatever reason, they had a fella record this footage for them, he gave it to them and skipped. At least hasn't been able to be found for days.
Here's where I need help. I got 2 discs from them. The one that I was able to capture through File ->Import->DVD Camcorder Disc is a smaller in physical size disc, at least half the size of a regular DVD. It is a 4x speed 30 minute recordable DVD -R. The footage imported fine. Once it is imported, Gspot says it is DVD "VOB" format, MPEG-2 Program Stream Sys Bitrate 10080 kb/s VBR. Vegas says MainConcept MPEG-2. They don't know what camera recorded it, but they know it was a Sony and that this disc was recorded on the camera to my hands. It was a DVD camcorder.
The other disc is a regular DVD+R and when I look on the back, I can tell that about 3/4 of the disc has had some sort of writing done to it. There is definitely info there. When I put it in any of my DVD drives, it says it is an empty disc and my computer prompts me to burn a disc. It just says empty disc. I right click, go to properties on the drive and it says 0 free, 0 used. They say the cameraman said he had trouble "finalizing" the footage but said I shouldn't have a problem. Obviously, he was wrong and I'm just hoping you would all have some mercy for my soul.
Any help on how to finalize this disc?
Here's where I need help. I got 2 discs from them. The one that I was able to capture through File ->Import->DVD Camcorder Disc is a smaller in physical size disc, at least half the size of a regular DVD. It is a 4x speed 30 minute recordable DVD -R. The footage imported fine. Once it is imported, Gspot says it is DVD "VOB" format, MPEG-2 Program Stream Sys Bitrate 10080 kb/s VBR. Vegas says MainConcept MPEG-2. They don't know what camera recorded it, but they know it was a Sony and that this disc was recorded on the camera to my hands. It was a DVD camcorder.
The other disc is a regular DVD+R and when I look on the back, I can tell that about 3/4 of the disc has had some sort of writing done to it. There is definitely info there. When I put it in any of my DVD drives, it says it is an empty disc and my computer prompts me to burn a disc. It just says empty disc. I right click, go to properties on the drive and it says 0 free, 0 used. They say the cameraman said he had trouble "finalizing" the footage but said I shouldn't have a problem. Obviously, he was wrong and I'm just hoping you would all have some mercy for my soul.
Any help on how to finalize this disc?