Burn a Sony DVD+RW disc.

I am running Windows 8.1 and I am unable to burn a DVD+RW disc with Premier Elements 12.

Things and Software to AVOID when authoring/burning a disc... says Encore, but also applies to Premiere Elements and disc burning
Start --> http://forums.adobe.com/thread/608660
#2 has WHY Explained http://forums.adobe.com/thread/607390
Plus http://forums.adobe.com/thread/562941
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cd-dvd-drive-recognized-application.html
Set your DVD output to a folder on your hard drive and then use the FREE Imgburn to write the folder to disc (send the author a PayPal donation if you like his program)
Read http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1322583 for notes on installing Imgburn WITHOUT any toolbar add-ons

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Error message when burning to Sony DVD-r discs

Just bought 200 Sony DVD-R printable discs from Costco, and I am trying to burn a 15 minute short film in DVD studio pro. The DVD just spins in Formatting and I get this message:The recording device reported the media error: Unknown device error.
I have burned this same film many times with my Nexxtech DVD's and it works fine, but the Sony discs don't seem to work. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
D-

Try burning at the lowest possible speed (probably DVDx2) and see if they work.

Trouble burning Sony dvd-r discs

I am not able to burn video to Sony brand DVD-r discs and I am able to burn to memorex discs of same type, if I slow down the burn rate from 8x to 3x. Any way I can use the Sony Discs? Thanks.

Hi! Sense You have not posted your model number found on the bottom of your laptop; there's no way for us to know what OS you have or any thing else. How many different Sony DVD's have you tried to burn video?? If you have W7, there are trouble shooting features in the Action Center, which can be accessed from search.
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No 1x burning with Sony DVD RW DW-Q28A

My 2.7 GHz/Dual Power Mac G5 comes with the Sony DVD RW DW-Q28A. I am unable to burn a DVD at 1x. Why would I want to burn at 1x you ask? At lot of DVD Players will only recognize 1x and 2x burned disks. We have the ridiculous situation of having to create DVD's with the Dual G5 and then transferring our creation to an 800 MHz iMac in order to burn at 1x so that people don't return the DVD's. My daughter recently had her PowerBook fixed by Apple. I noticed that part of the fix was installing a Matshita DVD-R UJ-825. That drive is also able to burn at 1x speed. Is it that this Sony model is "speed challanged" or is it just a problem with my drive?
I don't even know if buying 1x and 2x media is a solution with this particular drive. I have also read that there might be a firmware upgrade available for it. Unfortunately, from the directions I read, I would need to remove the drive and use an external USB connection with Virtual PC or install it on a PC and flash there. Are there no other solutions?
PowerPC G5/Dual 2.7 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.1)
PowerPC G5/Dual 2.7 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.1)

There is no official Apple firmware update for your
drive - using non-Apple firmware will void your
drive's warranty.
Regarding your trying to burn 1x: Try another brand
of DVDs and make sure that their speed rating
includes 1x
The same brand I used to burn on the laptop at 1x was used on the G5. It just seems that the Sony drive is "too stupid" (okay tha'ts not a technical term - lol) to listen to Toast when I request a 1x burn. On the Powebook with the non-Sony drive when I tell the software to burn the disk at 1x, it does, taking over 40 minutes. The blank DVD's I'm using are Verbatim 16x that are rated "up to 16x".
Just to make it even more clear, I have no problems burning 16x discs using the Sony drive. They are readable when used on my computer and on very modern DVD players that have DVD drive transports originally designed for PCs. They just won't play, for instance, on my Sony DVP-S500D which is a much older machine. When I burn at 1x on the iMac or Powerbook it plays fine on the S500D.
At the end of the day, if the drive won't burn at 1x what's the difference if Apple voids the warranty on a drive that can't be used for the purpose for which it was intended -- namely the creation of DVD's that will play to a wide range of DVD players.
PowerPC G5/Dual 2.7 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Inability to play on Mac DVD burned on Sony DVD Recorder

I burned an old VHS onto a Sony DVR-R disc, using a Sony RDR-VX560 Recorder. The resultant DVD played fine on the Sony TV set, but I could not play it on my Mac. On insertion into the Mac, I got a Disc icon titled: "SonyDVD_RECORDERVOLUME" but the Disc did not open automatically, as usual, nor would it open in the DVD Player app. Upon double clicking the icon a screen w/the DVD title as its name appeared w/a folder titled "DVD_RTAV" opened, w/2 items enclosed. The 2 enclosed folders, were titled "VR_MOVIE.VRO" and "VR_MANGR.IFO" respectively. Upon opening the folders, each produced a DVD Player app msg: "There was a problem opening the media. The media type is not supported." This was my 1st attempt at dubbing though I have been successfully burning and playing the same Sony discs on this Mac and TV for some time w/minimal problems. I'm at wits end trying to resolve this problem and will certainly appreciate any help. Many Thanks.

Did you finalise the disc on the Sony?
PS - This has nothing to do with iDVD, which is the software used to create DVD's on a Mac. You have posted the question in the wrong forum really, it would be better to post the question here :
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=263
Message was edited by: Ian Parkinson

PE11 and burning to a DVD+R disc

Hi,
I am so lost.
I have video and slideshows that I would like to burn to DVD's for Christmas presents.
I seem to be unable to burn more than one MPEG video or MPEG slideshow to the DVD.
I have reasearched the forum until I'm blue in the face. I have looked into the APE11 Class room in a Book. All to no avail.
Yes - I am very, very new to PE11. In fact this is my first video program I've ever used. I also am not very techy. - Sorry.
Here is the problem. Once I burn a slideshow or a video, I am unable to burn anything else to the DVD+R.
At this time, I am ready to shove everything into one BIG huge file and burn it.
Do I have any other options?
I am using a new Toshiba laptop with Windows 8. The hard drive is almost empty because it is so much larger than my old PC. Ram could be improved but I don't think that is my problem.
I believe I don't understand the function of DVD's. Can you say frustrated? Yep - I can!
DVD-R does what?
DVD+R does what?
DVD-RW does what?
Am I trying to write multiple vidoe's/slideshows to the wrong medium?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.

John T. has provided a great link to about all things "DVD."
The +R & -R are types of DVD media, and can be used (in their blank form) to create DVD-Videos, to be played on computers via DVD software players, or by set-top hardware DVD players, hooked to a TV.
Gong back, set-top hardware DVD players were sensitive to the DVD "types," and some would only play one type well, or possibly ONLY one type. Most modern DVD players are much less sensitive, BUT if some recipients have older players, it can still be important. For those older set-top players the +R type media, seem to be slightly more "universal," but there is no "correct answer," as it depends on the actual player.
Most computer multi-drive players can handle either type (and also RW discs), equally well.
Good luck,
Hunt

Burning video to DVDs - what discs?

I just got my powerbook and have a lot of "Lost" episodes to move... both in AVI and iTunes format. What discs do I need, and what's the most efficient way to burn it so it'll read both on my computer and on a TV?

Welcome to the Apple forums.
There's a current discussion about burning iTunes video to a DVD, see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=286906&tstart=0
On AVI's, you can use MPEG Streamclip (http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html) to convert them to digital video, then use DVD Imager (http://lonestar.utsa.edu/llee/applescript/dvdimager.html) to create the DVD image for burning. Both programs are freeware. Or use a product like Toast.
We use TDK DVD's (have used both -R and +R) to burn DVD's that work on both computer and TV (was recently told to use -R for video, +R for data, however, have also seen recommendations of +R for video). They're available from our local Circuit City for $8 for 25, which seems to be about the going discounted rate. If you browse around the web, you'll find discussion on the quality of blank DVD's, their sources, what country they were manufactured in, etc. The TDK DVD's have consistently worked, and I can recommend them.

Sony DVD+R v1.2 bad discs?

I've burned DVD's on different brands, Philips, Sony, TDK, Fujifilm, Tevion and others but the recent Sony (DVD+R ver 1.2) ones are bad or is it my superdrive giving up? This is what I keep getting with toast 6:
The Drive reported an error
Sense Key= HARDWARE ERROR
Sense Code= 0x44, 0x06
INTERNAL TARGET FAILURE
I've just wasted 4 dvd's, which cost me 1 euro each. On 3 occasions I got the error at the beginning, and on one just at the end, it then said It cant write the lead-in and lead-out. I'm getting some TDK's tomorrow.
Another thing, I burned a Sony DVD, the burning process was succesful and at the end it played the disc. I tested it on a dvd player and it worked. Couple of days later I put that same disc in the superdrive and it didn't mount.

Over here (Holland) we use DVD+R, -R are not sold that much. Besides my burner writes DVD+R only. But I figured out what the problem was, it wasn't the Sony DVD's. I cleaned the lens with a CD lens cleaner and it had mostly to do with the compression of a DVD being over 4.4 Gigs.

Burning DVD data discs?

When I insert a blank CD-R in my Superdrive(tm), the blank disk appears on my desktop, making it easy to drag and drop files to it to be burned.
Blank DVD+R discs don't show up on my desktop, however. Is that by design? I'm guessing I could still burn a DVD data disc by using a burn folder, correct? Is there a better way?
I know the disks I'm using are compatible with the Superdrive because I've successfully burned DVD movies to those disks using iDVD.
Thanks.

It is possible that when you insert a blank DVD, it is set to open up in a specific application (maybe iDVD). Open up system preferences, click on "CD & DVDs" and make sure that the category "When you insert a blank DVD", the drop down menu is on "Ask what to do" so that you have the option of opening it in the finder.

Won't mount finalised DVD-RW discs - any suggestions?

I have three brand-new Sony DVD-RW discs recorded and finalised on a standalone DVD recorder. They play fine in all my consumer DVD players and in my Windows laptop, but my PowerBook refuses to mount them. The Superdrive tries to read them, you hear the head shuttling around, but no icon appears on the desktop. If you just leave it to see what happens, the drive eventually stops spinning.
I've used DVD-RWs in my Superdrive before with no problems; in fact, these are the first DVDs of any format that have ever refused to mount on my PowerBook.
Is there any software I can try, any Superdrive firmware updates available? If necessary I can use my Windows laptop to rip the discs onto my external HD and use the Mac to access them from there, but I'm not happy that my Superdrive apparently won't read finalised major-brand DVD-RWs when it's done so with no problems in the past.
17 PB G4 (2005 version) Mac OS X (10.4.3) 1Gb RAM

It is always a good idea to go to your Apple and then Software Update to make sure your Computer is running the latest updates, Be sure you Repair permissions before and after the Update.
Media has always been a problem, you might run 10 or 15 from a stack of 30 and then I have seen brand new 30 pack not accept 1 of the 30.
Unless it is just imparitive I would suggest DVD-R Media it appears they like most Mac Burners better.
Yes I know that you shouldn't be having this issue but until Apple does something about this issue, you are stuck.
Don

I burned an edited movie to disc using H.264 codec and a second movie to MPEG -4 Video both worked well on my iMac but will not play on my Sony DVD Recorder/Player which accepts both DVD RW and DVD-RW. Any suggestions?

I burned an edited movie to disc using H.264 codec and a second movie using MPEG-4 Video. Both played well on my iMac but would not play on my Sony DVD Recorder/Player which accepts both DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs. I have tried other 'codecs' DV-PAL; DVCPRO-PAL; DVCPRO50-PAL; AIC; and finally share to iDVD. iDVD works on both my iMac and DVD Recorder but the picture is very poor with major shimmering which is unwatchable. Can anyone assist? The other codecs I used either do not pay on my video recorder or fail when I play them back on my iMac. I am at a loss as to what I can do. I am from the UK so using PAL is essential.

If the source video is interlaced, you may have problems using iMovie. It de-interlaces everything on output which can cause picture to look strange. Final Cut Pro X supports interlaced video, but it costs a lot more.
Standard DVD Players don't support H.264 or MPEG4. You might want to look at this article on transferring HD video to DVD. I wrote this article mainly for Final Cut Pro, but many of the same principles apply.

FCE, Sony HD Camera, Family Video Editing, & Burning (HD?)DVD

Ok. Here goes ... I am a new iMac enthusiast who has "seen the light". That being said, I will be purchasing my first iMac in 30 days and I am hopefull that my expectation(s) do not fall flat because they are unrealistic. The only expectation in which there appears to be some doubt is this ... I am planning to convert all of my family videos (present formats of VHS, VHS-C, & AVCHD) to a HD format on a DVD, or at least to another electronic hardware such as a hard drive or a library of SD cards. Well, how many holes do I have in my plan? Before you answer, allow me to tell you my understanding of the barriers. First of all the actual conversion of VHS format to a digital format. I do have a Plextor Digital Video Converter with which I have, in the past, successfully converted the analog VHS format to a digital format and saved on a Windows PC, so I do have some experience with that effort. I do understand the labor intensive exercise this could prove to be. Second, I anticipate the VHS-C conversion to be about the same process. However, what about the video that I presently have on my Sony HDR-SR11? I have already done some importing and editing of said digital video via my daughter's MacPro & iMovie, but what about burning it to DVD? Of course, when I burned the video to DVD it converted to standard format. I want it to be in a HD format. From what I have seen in forums and various discussions on the net, this is almost impossible without some relatively complicated manipulation via Toast 10, BluRay drive, etc. type effort. What is the deal? Why the black hole of interface when it comes to burning digital video to a HD format, even when the original source is HD? It seems to me that there is a huge opportunity for Apple to capture a tremendous segment of business by providng an "Apple-like" seemless process of conveting (AVC)HD video and enabling the burning (archiving) of such video to a digital disk in either iMovie or FCE or whatever, be it a DVD or SD card.
Ok ... back to my question. Is the gap as large as I understand it to be? Is there no other way to accomplish this task? Is FCE a viable option and/or tool in this effort or not? Am I better off using Toast 10 or is that not even the answer? Help!

Hi and welcome to the forum!
I think your expectations are on the whole very realistic, and FCE would certainly help in what you seem to be wanting to do. For converting old VHS tapes, an analog to DV converter will do the trick. You simply plug in the converter to your camera, and it should convert the analog to a DV format that you can capture directly into FCE with the DV Converter preset to make things easier for you.
As for using AVCHD, FCE does not edit it natively but will convert it upon ingest to Apple Intermediate Codec for editing natively. Not much quality is lost in this conversion, and the Log and Transfer interface within FCE that you use to ingest AVCHD from your camcorder is top notch.
The thing you have to understand about HD-DVDs is that they are very costly to produce and view, with a rather small viewer base. It is possible as you said to burn HD DVDs using Toast or the DVD Studio Pro that comes with Final Cut Studio. Even then you would need a separate Blue-ray disc burner to hook up to your computer, the expensive HD discs themselves, and an HD DVD reader to hook up to your HD TV. I guess the reason why iDVD does not offer HD DVD burning is that there are a relatively small amount of people who require it or have the funds to make it work smoothly. Very few people have HD DVD readers in their homes anyway, so you can be assured that most DVDs you would burn would be played solely on your machine.
Do not give up hope! SD DVDs still preserve pretty good quality, are easy to use with the software installed on the Mac, and are assured to play on the majority of TVs owned by people today. If you are bent on getting the HD to work for your TV, Ian's helpful post on [viewing HD videos|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10506824&#10506824] with an inexpensive media player might make more sense for you.
So all in all, FCE is a viable tool for most things you would like to do with video. However, if you are sure you want to burn to HD DVDs you will need other software and equipment than what comes with your Mac.

IDVD will no longer burn DVD+R discs

After years of happily burning both -R and +R DVD's, now suddenly my iDVD will only work with -R? I'm stranded here with no -R discs (and a new 50-pack of the other), so I hope you can tell me how to restore this function of my software. I suspect it has to do with updates that make the various components incompatible, but I wouldn't have a clue how to remedy that.
I've tried closing and re-starting iDVD, emptying the trash, removing the motion function, deleting encoded assets, moving com.apple.iDVD something something to the desktop before opening iDVD, but nothing made it keep the disc in the drive. It spits it out saying to please insert a DVD-R disc.
Thanks!
Roxane

Try this:
1. Instead of burning directly to disc, use the option in iDVD to output to a disc image
2. Upon completion of creating the disc image, use Apple Disk Utility to burn the image to your new media
If that fails, it is likely a media issue; your drive is not compatible with your new media.
Outside of this, something else you can try is to simply see if the disc can be burned using Finder. While in Finder, you can mount writable discs in your drive for backing up files and folders. If Finder cannot mount and write to the disc, again you have a media issue.
What to do?
Wait for Apple to update the drive firmware to handle newer media; or get an external drive that is newer; or purchase new media. The latter is your cheapest and most timely solution.
I've got quite a selection of media here and seem to notice that some brands give me the most problem. I've found that Verbatim, Sony, Fuji, TDK, and Taiyo-Yuden seem to give predictable results time and time again.
My most recent failure was with some off-brand +R DL media I picked up at a Frys sale. While trying to burn a Snow Leopard install disk, I had 3 failures in a row - drive recognized the disc and burned it, but it would not verify. Going back to one of my tried and true brands resulted in success on the first try.
Caveat Emptor.
Mike

Cant' Burn DVDs in Disc Utility or iDVD

I'm trying to burn a 111 min family movie. I've tried burning it in iDVD, but it failed at the "Writing Lead in" part. I've already burnt it once, in Disc Utility, but when I used Disc Utility to burn the new DVD as a disk image, it said 'Cannot get the necessary laser power level in order to burn"
The DVD I use is TDK DVD+R DL but I dont think the disc is the problem, since I have burnt many files on these disc already (which includes the first disc of the movie I'm burning).
What is the problem? Does my burner need replacing?

You need to look at the variables since you last were able to successfully burn this project.
First, make sure that you have enough free disk space to burn: 5GB is rock bottom but 20GB is recommended.
Secondly, shut down any other power consuming programs while you are burning, including your screen saver and power saver programs, and even email. Restarting your computer helps to clean things out.
Make sure that your burner is clean.
At 111 minutes, you are close to the 120 minute max for a single sided disk. Still, I would try burning this project onto a single sided standard DVD-R (instead of +R), using a different brand of disk. Maxell, Verbatim, Sony have been recommended. I personally like HP DVD-R disks. I have heard negative comments about TDK.
If you can burn a small test project, then probably your burner is O.K, and clean enough to burn, although I have heard that they can sporadically malfunction.
If nothing works, you might want to take your computer in to an Apple store or other repair place and have them check your burner.

Problems mounting a Sony DVD+R DL disc

Hi I have a MacBookPro 2,2 - Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.33 GHz - 15''
When I load a blank Sony DVD+R DL 8.5gb - AccuCore - RW - disc into Finder it shows up fine, burns without a problem (I burned it with finder), mounts after its done without a problem, it ejects without a problem.
Now when I try to use the disc the next day. It wont mount. The drive tries to read it for 30 seconds and than just ejects it back out. I have Toast 7 Titanium but I mainly use it to make movie DVD's with DVD+R's for clients.
I thought maybe the disc's are bad or something. So I did a little experiment using Parallels Desktop with Windows XP SP2 on it. It loaded the disc into the drive and it showed up. Seems that the drive nor the disc are the problem but the OS.
Any help on this would be awesome.
MacBookPro 2,2 - Intel Core 2 Duo - 2.33 GHz - 15" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Raul,
No thanks to yourself and Sony you are in this pickle. You allowed yourself to have less than 2 copies of your data, and Sony for not following the DVD+R DL standard that Apple has tried to follow with the rest of the industry. Unfortunately the rest of the industry can't agree upon a standard. It really is too bad that's the case, but that's the situation with the bleading edge on media format. DVD-R is more reliable than DVD+R DL.
That's where the problem happened. Apple didn't tell you to delete the data.
My suggestion is to follow my backup FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
to avoid such problems in the future.
You may be able to recover the information with Prosoft Data Rescue, or Subrosasoft's File Salvage.
Good luck!
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