Another burn problem (dvd studio pro 3)

have built my project, but when i hit the burn button i just get a message box telling me 'formatting was successful'. why won't it start burning a disc, what am i doing wrong?
thanks

I am having the same problem. Have you recently upgraded to Leopard? It worked fine for me until I upgraded. I hope they come up with a fix. I would like to use DVD Studio Pro 3 more, but I don't use it enough to justify upgrading to 4.

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I just got done making a dvd on DVD studio pro and the dvd plays perfectly fine on my two dvd players that I have at home. But When I want to play it on my Mac book pro, my computer just tries to read it and then spits it back out. any help? why is it not playing on my MBP?

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It's the same machine where you burned the disc? I would try using a different media brand. But ussually the playback problems are in stand alone players, not in computers.
Did you try another video DVD in the same machine?
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Alberto

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My camera is a Sony Ex1 and I have a 1 hour and 7 minute video that I have sent through Compressor to DVD Studio Pro, which I have done many times before upgrading to FCP 7, and now when I try to build it, it always tells be that the video bitrate is to high. I have gone though preferences and reduced the bitrate to 3 and max 5 and it still does it. I have also made a Quicktime movie and tried to build and burn it in DVD Studio Pro and that does not work either. I have no problem viewing it in DVD Studio Pro when I simulate it.
I would appreciate any help you guy could give me. This is just a hobby, but I have been doing it for over 5 years and have never had this problem.

Dexil Rold wrote:
When I got DVD Pro 7, I installed 10.6 on a new 1 Tb hard drive and then installed DVD Pro 7, so it was installed on a completely new drive. When I ran my movie through Compressor, I did it two times. One with the DVD 90 Best, one with a suggestion by the new book on Studio Pro 4 (average 4.5 Mbps, Max 7.5 Mbps. I also made a Quicktime Movie. I did have to try several times to get it through Compressor, after hours FCP would quit before it was finished, but I did get it to work
It could be spiking with the 7.5, doubtful, but could be even with AC3 audio.
Try this to see if it works - Export the Final Cut movie as self contained movie (is that what the QuickTime Movie was, the entire timeline self contained?) Sorry I am a bit unclear as to whether you got that to go through Compressor or was it the timeline from FCP, which quit, but successfully went through Compressor. Perhaps it is related to Snow Leopard.
When you look at the build files on your hard drive, is it crashing out at the same point?
Take a look here http://dvdstepbystep.com/vts.php at the image at the bottom, does the build get to the same spot and/or does it throw the error in the log at the same part? Anything else in the log?
Anyway, there would be a few things to try.
I would think the easiest is to
1.) Export a small section of the movie from Final Cut as a self contained movie.
2.) Bring that movie into Compressor and run Compressor on it (including AC3 files) then bring that into DVD SP to see if it builds.
If it does, it would seem to be that there may be a spike causing the error (are you using multiple video streams, subtitles or anything else or is is a straight one video/one audio on the track.)
If that works it would seem to be a spike issue, especially if the error is thrown at the some spot in the building process.
If it gets past that, export the entire timeline and run it through Compressor and see if that works, dial down the top bitrate a bit for the video.
You could also do some other things (make another partition for an install of Leopard, not Snow Leopard, try a new user, etc.) but the above may be the easiest to start with.
When you say it takes hours to send from Final Cut, is that sending from Final Cut to Compressor or Final Cut to a self contained movie? Of course alot of this depends on your Final Cut timeline, codecs, color corrections, renders and the rest, but on a Octo it should not be painfully long for a 1 hour few minutes movie. I ave Final Cut 7 on a laptop and it does a pretty good job speedwise on some HDV timelines, which are a pain to send out. You may want to check things like where you set your scratch disks, when you are putting the media etc. (More as an aside FYI)

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I am appealing to those much more expert than myself. I have burned a DVD of my short film in DVD Studio Pro.
Original file: Apple Pro Res 422 HQ (PAL 25fps)
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Then I imported this in DVD Studio Pro and burned a DVD
The DVD looks great until the end where the faces start to go pixellated in an outdoor scene every second or so for a second.
The thing is that this only suddenly started to happen. I had originally done the compression and burned dvds and it all looked fine, but then suddenly when I burned some extra DVDs I noticed this had happened. I recompressed the files, and it had the same problem in exactly the same place. (The original file doesn't have this problem.)
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When I originally burned the PAL DVDs I also did a second version where I exported from FCP a PAL QT of the film 720x576 and then imported this into DVD Studio Pro and let DVD Studio Pro do the rest of the compression. I am trying this again to see if this makes any difference.
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Hi Christina, thanks for this. I am a bit confused exactly how many and where to put.
You see the shot in question is a static two shot. It is used several times in the scene, but the only place I have a problem is the final time we see the shot. It is at the end of the shot and over the final 13 seconds, the faces pixellate slightly every now and then for like a frame. How many compression markers should I put in do you think?
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I've cleaned it using disc cleaner and I've also burned the video_ts files to my sony DVD burner (my sony DVD burner is only 3 months old) besides the burner in my Mac and I'm still having playback issues on some DVD players? I've also tested them without dvd lables on verbatim discs. So no one else is having any problems authoring their DVDs on the Mac Pros or the other intel based macs?

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When I author a build from DVD Studio Pro 4 and view the slide show using the Apple DVD player I see a green rectangle on the bottom of each transition. No problem when checking it in DVD studio pro. Would appreciate any help, suggestions, etc. Lack of sleep and a deadline is not helping my thought process.
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First, export the shots you want to use.
From there you can import directly to dvd studio pro and title them as a dvd slide show if you like. You can also do this with idvd.
The dvd slide show format is limited to 99 shots, though and has some other limitations, (transitions), as well. You can break these by turning the shots into a movie, using something like imovie or final cut pro. Both also support titling.
There are several stand alone programs for doing this too, including photo2movie, and still life, both of which have relatively low price tags.
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I have a problem when exporting my dvd as .img file.
The protokoll says (in german): Achtung: Die Datei „NAME-MPEG-2; 6,4 MBit/s; 2-Pass; 4/3.m2v“ im VIDEO_TS- oder HVDVD_TS-Ordner ist auf der fertiggestellten DVD nicht enthalten.
means the original file is not included. what can i do?
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It is probably a standard warning message to say that the file is not included in the video_ts folder - which is quite alright... you don't want that in there. When the video_ts folder is created it should only contain .vob, .bup and .ifo files. Anything else is technically 'illegal' to be contained there, and will be omitted.
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I'm having a problem with navigation on a project, specifically the next button navigation.
I have a dual layer disc with 7 20 minute shows. Track 1 = show 1, etc. Play All button leads to Track 1. End jump of Track 1 is set to Track 2 and so on until the last show the end jump is set back to menu 1. Each track has 4 chapter markers.If I just sit back and let it play through it plays perfectly (on disc and simulator). When I hit the next button in the simulator it advances to the next chapter as it should except that at the last chapter marker for each track it does not advance, instead playing through a 12 second credit sequence before jumping to the next track. However when I burn the DVD and hit next at the last chapter marker it goes back to the beginning of that individual show, I can then hit next to go through the chapters again, and the second time through it will jump to the next track on the disc as it should. This happens for every track.
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I'd put all 7 onto 1 track. Then use stories to build the disc. Way less complicated and easier for you (and the DVD player) to know what is going on.
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Is there a way to burn my HDV footage as MPEG-2 to a disk image and burn it on a Blu-Ray disk on the Lacie external drive?

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