No. At the end of the prepare cycle is when I get the message. I tried prepare & burn and the same thing happened.

Okay, here it is...

It was my fault. My mistake. A gross oversight on my part. I was not using the DVD-A template mpeg file, I was using the plain MPEG2 setting.

However, the chapter makers are not being saved and/or tranferred over to DVD-A when saving (rendering) the file as the proper DVD-A NTSC file. I had to input them, again, by hand. How come?

And the MPEG file isn't a frame-for-frame duplication of the original, I noticed. Is this due to compression?

I got the same message...tried to create a project w/ 1 slide show on it, the slide show being created in dvda. It has a lot of pictures in it, probably 350 or so.

I preview the project & it looks ok (although I didn't view all images).

I then try to prepare & burn.

The render completes (get a gree check mark on the first of the thee icons).

I then get that message and when I click ok, am returned to the project - the files are not prepared.

Does anyone recognize the error msg? SoFo - does this help identify a bug that should be fixed?

just a brief update - I ran the 'make dvd' again a second time just after the above error, but this time the only difference was that the file was smaller since I reduced the time each photo was displayed - the total file size was then 250mb and it didn't error. Not sure if the change had anything to do w/ it or not but maybe this helps someone

Daves2:
the first time you tired to make the dvd, the resulting mpeg file was very big? I ask this because the some problem occurred me twice. The first time the movie was very big. Reducing it the problem disappeared. (just like your case?). Now I am having exactly the some problem with another movie... the file is big 3.6Gbytes. DVD-A is saying that the size is about 90% of the possibile DVD size... but perhaps it is not accurate and needs more space (I am not speacking of the HD space since I have about 30G free). I am trying to reduce the bitrate of the rendering so to smallen the file. If it works I will post it.
Anyone who has the same problem and hopefully some solution please post!
Bye

Hi all,

Im new here so be gentle lol
I seem to have the same problem that Robycos describes above. This is the situation :

I have 1 1/2 hour long footage, which 20gb in avi format + a pic slide show. I have managed to prepare the file fine without problems (I had to reduce the bit rate so the total size is now 4.6gb). However, I tried to burn this twice but I keep on getting a error. I have tried to burn smaller file sizes and it works fine.

My thinking is that u dont actually get 4.7gb on the dvd-r or there is a bug in the software that prevents you from burning anything great than x.

any input would be great, as I would like to know what is max file size allowed.

Thanks
Bobby

UK

I think you can get about 4.3 gB on a 4.7 gB dvd-r; you can search the web and get the exact size. Interestling enough, I recently discovered that I can get 112% oversize on on dvd using dvd-a (about 5.4 gB) of mpeg2 video mpeg 1 level 2 audio to a dvd due to the greater compression of AC3 over mpeg 1 level 2. This really made my day as I'm now able to get lots more on a dvd. I just ignore the warning message and tell dvd a not to recompress anything, and miraculously the dvd burns in about 1.5 hours completely functional. Excellent product.

Gold,

So are you rendering DV into Mpeg2 format, then importing the media into DVD-A and then burning?

Cheers
Bobby

Bobby,
The video capture card captures as mpeg2 video [variable bit rate] and mpeg1 layer 2 audio [I usually start with NTSC-oftimes straight from the camera]. So generally, I bypass Vegas and go straight to DVD-A; the only rendering-like operation is when DVD-A converts the audio to AC3. Chapter marks are added in DVD-A. I do use some third party editing routines to clip video to shorter lengths for motion menus and such but these don't render; they just clip. I have in the past gone the full gamet with totally rendered video/audio with transitions and the like, but this was mostly to make 30 sec commercials with lots of content in a short time. I need to do more Vegas style preprocessing but it sure is nice to capture in about 2 hours and create and burn [1x--don't trust 2x or faster for universal play] in another 2 hours [finished dvd in 4 hours--rendering on my machine takes more like a day] for family type video. Although I make my living in the digital world; I hate what it does to the video and audio quality; its advantage in transmission loss is good but the digital video is always "grainy" [truncation after the discrete cosine transform]; so I try not to recompress a digital video whenever possible. This defeats the concept of digital copies not having the multiple generation loss experienced by analog tape. Please, don't ask which hardware/software as this is a Sonic Foundry forum and I don't want to get into that.
Gold
[no rendering at all--usually]