Vegas Pro 9 and Imageburn

Just Relax wrote on 8/16/2010, 5:03 PM

Please help me here anyone. Which format should I Render As my video with Vegas Pro 9 to be able to burn it with Imageburn (Imgburn). Iam still having trouble with Vegas pro9 BURN DVD. vegas can't find my DVD Burner. I have tried a lot of suggested solutions but to no avail.

HP Pavilion Elite
8GB Ram, IT Hard Drive
windows Vista premium 64bits
vegas Pro 9 64bits and 32 bits

Any suggestion and advice will greatly be appreciated

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FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 8/20/2010, 3:30 AM

So we're on the same page then.

My earlier question was if it is necessary to use Imageburn or any burning software when you can just copy the the 2 DVD folders across to a DVD disc using explorer, since as you mentioned all the processing had already been done.

rs170a wrote on 8/20/2010, 4:43 AM

Peter is correct in his assumption.
I use DVDA to "prepare" the disc and have always used another app to do the actual disc burning.

Mike

gpsmikey wrote on 8/20/2010, 8:16 AM

That comes back to the issue of "file order on the disk" again - simply dragging the VIDEO_TS folder to a burning program will put all the files on the disk in the right folder. It will NOT make sure they are in the right physical order on the disk. As I indicated earlier, I'm not sure just how particular most players are, but the spec does indicate there is a specific order (not just the right files). If you create an ISO with DVDA then burn that to disk using Imgburn etc, everything will be in the right order (this assumes that DVDA puts them in the correct order in the ISO). However, just dragging the folders does not insure the correct order only that the correct files are there. It's a subtle difference, but I have been bitten by "subtle differences" in the past - most editors default to mpeg layer2 for the audio. That is fine for PAL, but the NTSC spec says at least one channel must be either AC3 or LPCM. Took me a while to find that one when a friend with an older player said "nice show, but no sound" and yet the same disk would play on any other player I tried. Changed the sound to LPCM and it played fine on his older player.

mikey

DavidMcKnight wrote on 8/20/2010, 8:48 AM

gpsmikey -
My procedure is to prepare in DVDA and burn in Nero (sometimes ImgBurn). Either way, I drag the files from the prepare folder into a Nero or ImgBurn DVD Video project, and burn with verification. Between those burns and DVD-R duplications of those burns I have delivered around 8,500 discs this way. Many more if you count replication of some commercial products. I have never had a disc not play or produce errors because of the file order on disc. I'm not denying it doesn't happen, just wondering if the creation of a DVD Video disc takes this into account, vs. creating a data disc (in Nero or ImgBurn)?

<edit> sorry, just read your earlier post about Nero doing something special, possibly.

gpsmikey wrote on 8/20/2010, 12:07 PM

I saw a comment the other day from someone (howz that for a great reference) where they indicated they were using imgburn to run multiple burners. I don't remember if they were using multiple instances of imgburn or if there was a way to get it to talk to multiple burners, but I do remember seeing a comment they were burning multiple copies using imgburn.

Found the comment - don't know if you can read it if you are not a forum member (I think you can) - about the 8th post down in
http://www.proshowenthusiasts.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15847
He comments:
Something that I discovered that probably everybody else in the world knows, I was probably late to the party. If you have two DVD burners, you can open ImgBurn twice and burn two DVD's at the same time. Cranked out 20 DVD's of a thirty minute show in probably something less than 30 minutes a few days ago. Just specify which drive to burn to in each program and start grabbing DVD's to keep the machine fed.

mikey