Unable to burn a disc

[David Harry]

Hi Anton,

Here is the Movie Tab with Settings open, hope it's the right image...

Your audio is fine for PAL regions, although not commonly used. Although AC3 maybe a better option for certain hardware playback scenarios. MPEG audio decoding is a legal requirement for PAL DVD players, but not for NTSC. I remember when the first Panasonic region 2 machine came out. Panasonic had jumped the gun on the final ratification of the region 2 standards, that originally only had multi channel MPEG audio and not AC3. They produced a machine that only did MPEG audio, and the standards where ammended last minute to include AC3 as an option for region 2 PAL. The rest is history.

[wkiess01]

your audio settings are incorrect for PAL DVD

go through these steps and see what else does not match
http://www.videoproductions.com.au/h...vd-burner.html

Thanks for your patience Anton, but it's just not working out. I must be stupid or something....

I have followed the instructions and set the settings in the Movie Tab (see attachment), but it still won't work. I notice that in point 8. you say to "...now insert disc...". Well, my Burn2Disc won't recognise a disc at that point. It only seems to recognise it when I 1st start it up. Changing discs has no effect. *Sigh*

[antonsvideo]

in that case, your burner is not supported by the EDIUS Disk Burner

I am using Pioneer burners and have not had any issues

but, I usually burn with other software, because I always test the compilation for problems prior to burning

[wkiess01]

in that case, your burner is not supported by the EDIUS Disk Burner

That would be pretty sad. I was under the impression that the burners were pretty much black box devices to which you issued commands and it would go off and execute them, unlike the early days of peripheral devices whereby you had to make them do everything with low level code.

Perhaps it's time I asked the question of EDIUS support themselves.

Thanks again for your help...much appreciated.

Cheers,
Walter

[David Harry]

That would be pretty sad. I was under the impression that the burners were pretty much black box devices to which you issued commands and it would go off and execute them, unlike the early days of peripheral devices whereby you had to make them do everything with low level code.

Perhaps it's time I asked the question of EDIUS support themselves.

Thanks again for your help...much appreciated.

Cheers,
Walter

I think you will find that GV are more than aware of this use. You may have a better time using Edius to author your temps and folders and then burn with something else. It only adds half a minute or so, and at least you can get a disc completed. I use VSO for the same, and it works great.

[dragN]

No burner showing

Hi Walter,
It looks to me like EDIUS can't see your burner at all! Even with no disc in the drive, you should be able to see the drive listed, what drive letter it identifies as, then a little "Media Type: no disc" underneath.

Do you have another program open somewhere that is also trying to burn a DVD? You mentioned using ImgBurn, (which it must be said is an excellent program). Have you had any problems with that? Imgburn seems to be a little more pushy than EDIUS when 'negotiating' use of the optical drives with windows and other programs.

I have also come across some specialised burning software (often specifically designed to pirate copy-protected DVDs/BDs) that replace or supplement windows' driver set. This causes havoc more often than not. Even removing these is often not enough, you may need to do some maintenance on your registry.

[wkiess01]

It looks to me like EDIUS can't see your burner at all! ...

Do you have another program open somewhere that is also trying to burn a DVD? ... Have you had any problems with that? ...

I have also come across some specialised burning software (often specifically designed to pirate copy-protected DVDs/BDs) that replace or supplement windows' driver set. This causes havoc more often than not...

Hi dargN,

I agree, it's as though EDIUS thinks I have no burner. Funny thing though, I built this machine from scratch and only loaded the motherboard software (including BIOS Update), the burner's Lightscribe SW and the Cyberlink SW that came with the drive. All of which is now removed (except of BIOS Update). Then I installed EDIUS. After that, ImgBurn when I found I couldn't burn discs.

I have no trouble at all with IMGBurn, works like a charm, I just prefer to have the one solution (considering I PAID FOR IT). I'd sure love to know if anyone else has both EDIUS and Imgburn installed and what kind of burning experience they're having...

I'm currently in a drawn out email conversation with support to try and remedy the situation. As helpful as they are, there is still currently no resolution.

Cheers,
Walter

[GrassValley_SL]

We have asked our QA department in Japan to look in to the reported issues with DVD /Bluray burning.

[dragN]

Hi Walter,
I have Imgburn installed and use it occasionally - EDIUS burns away like a charm so I doubt that imgburn is causing compatibility issues.
I would be surprised if your drive is simply incompatible with EDIUS! I guess it's possible but to my knowledge that drive shares components with several others.
If you can borrow a mate's DVD burner for an hour or so to plug in and try out, that'd be the best way to figure out that bit.

[wkiess01]

We have asked our QA department in Japan to look in to the reported issues with DVD /Bluray burning.

Thank You.

Walter