DVD Studio Pro burning/ building help

I am attempting to burn a project to DVD fro DVD Studio Pro. I keep getting an error message that build was not complete due to I/O error. I checked my drive to make sure that my firmaware was up to date, and it was. The file is only 3.8G and I am trying to burn to a 4.7GB disc. I am wondering if I made a mistake when importing the assets. My original media came from AVID Express Pro and I exported as a Quicktime Movie. Can anyone help???

Well, we would need to know more about your hardware configuration, but to me it sounds like a classic hardware problem... check all cables and connections, and if you have any way to run diagnostics on your system and/or burner, that might reveal the issue.
Best of luck!

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hi everyone.
Here are the steps:
-i edited a film on final cut, exported it in quicktime proress 422 25p 48khz.
created a dvd on dvd studio pro.
it doesnt work and here is the log:
Starting DVD Build UNTITLED_DISC...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project UNTITLED_DISC
Compiling VMG Information...
Created 7 PGCs in VTSM1
Created 8 PGCs in VMG.
1 Menu(s) will be created...
Compiling Menu PGCs...
Compiling Menu#1 (Menu 1)...
Writing VIDEO_TS.VOB
1 VTSs and 1 Titles will be created...
Compiling VTS#1 (Barquettes v3)...
Muxing VTS011.VOB
Done.
Linking VMG...
Linking VTS#1...
Writing VTS#1...
Writing VMG...
Writing Layout Info...
Compile Completed Successfully
Warning: The file ‘UNTITLED_DISC.layout’ found in the VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.
Warning: The file ‘VOB_DATA.LAY’ found in the VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.
Start formatting
Formatting as Standard DVD
Simulation mode is off
Lossless linking is on
Number of layers is 1
Doing side 1 of 1
Playable in region 1,2,3,4,5,6,8
Disc size is 12 cm
Disc has no copyright material
Writing ISO 9660 directories
Writing UDF 1.02 structures
Writing files
The recording device reported the media error: Unknown device error. (0x73, 0x03.)
The recording device reported the media error: Unknown device error. (0x73, 0x03.)
I'am stuck, can anyonw help!
thanks a lot!

I've run into this before too.
What ended up happening to me, after literally many months of stress and frustration, for it was a huge project I had worked on for a long time. I simply had to just make a new project. Something within my project settings or files had become corrupt. My first suggestion would be to just start again and see what happened. But if you don't want to, try making sure you don't have any hidden unused tracks or buttons. This will upset and make DVDSP pissy at times. If that isn't it, maybe it is your actual final cut exported file. Ask yourself, did you run it through compressor or not (this is not a necessity, but could potentially help), if not then try burning a dvd with another project all together and see what happens. It might help you narrow down your problems, sort of like a check list. If the other project burns, then it is either your DVDSP project (which is my guess), or it is your final cut file, which means you just export again and try again.
Hope that helps!

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Hi there. I have video to hand in for class in like 6 hours so i'm in a tight spot here.
I'm running FCP 5 suite on a macbook pro 2.6 ghz intel duo. I've created my DVD just fine in DVD Studio Pro, but as soon as i hit burn, a dialog box comes up immediately saying "formatting successfull" and an "ok" button. Then nothing happens. it doesnt even prompt me for a disc to burn onto.
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Welcome to the Boards
Quick thing as a workaround to start:
Try to first build the project and see if it is building correctly (open up the folder in Apple DVD Player)
If so try writing to a disc image and burn that as here
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
Which version of DVD SP are you running? It looks like you may be running a non-Universal Binary version (if it is 4.0.x or lower it is non-Universal)
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Also seems others ran into this
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8091064&#8091064

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Hi all, i have a bit of a problem when using DVD Studio Pro 4.
I need to burn DVCPRO 1080i footage of train tracks to SD, however the encoding to MPEG2 within DVD Studio pro 4 at 7 mbps leaves a tiling effect on the tracks. The only way around this that i have found is to convert the clip to SD using quicktime then take it into DVD stuio pro and encode to MPEG2, this works however it is very time consuming and i need the footage to stay in the original format, am i missing something here or does it just not like DVCPRO 1080i footage taken straight into it? Please help!!
Many thanks, Steve

Whether you use DVDSP, Compressor, QT conversion, bitvice, etc., the media will be converted to SD mpeg2 when it goes on the SD DVD. You may find you get better results by using compressor to encode if you turn on the frame controls, which can enable better detail when the image is resampled down to SD. There are several advantages I find in my workflow to using Compressor rather than letting DVDSP do my encoding. If you are really interested, I can spell them out, but try it out and see if you get better quality on your DVD.

DVD Studio Pro Newbie Needs Help!

I have a presentation deadline approaching and I need help desperately. I created my presentation using Keynote 3 (800*600 slides) and exported it to a Quicktime movie using H.264 compression at 29.97 fps (high quality settings). I then proceeded to use iDVD 6 and imported the Quicktime movie and created a simple menu using the templates provided.
I saved the entire project as a disk image and used the DVD player to check the disk image file. The quality of the DVD disk image file looked nothing like the original Quicktime movie. The images and text looked blurry and unprofessional.
I've spend quite some time on the iDVD and Keynote discussion forums and can't find a solution to my problem. The conclusion I've come is that the mpeg-2 encoder that iDVD 6 uses is problematic.
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~Eddie~
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You can use a mov file that contains both audio and video. DVD Studio Pro will compress the mov itself. I am not overly familiar with the codec H.264 but either way its a codec that compresses the video, and if I am right that codec is used for compressing video to web based file sizes, which means heavy compression. When I create DVD material I use M2V format which is what DVD SP wants anyways so it cuts time and drive space in half. If you export an mov and import it into DVD SP, DVD SP compresses the file again which is M2V. Now you have two files, with twice the compression time. When creating M2V the only thing that you need o be aware of is the bit rate, which needs to be adjusted pending the duration of the video. Use 29.97 if you are NTSC and full frame rate, which you should be.
If you can not create an M2V file with associated aiff audio file, than export your QT file as uncompressed or as a QT Movie. The file itself will be huge but DVD SP will compress it properly.
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DVD Studio Pro Burning HVDVD_TS File Disk

I have been having trouble burning a HD DVD from DVD Studio Pro. It continues to burn a data disk with the HVDVD_TS files instead of a DVD with a menu to play in a DVD player. What am I doing wrong?

Don't do this. Why? Because HD DVD lost out to BluRay in the high def DVD wars (like Betamax lost to VHS back in the day). The only devices that will play those DVDs are Toshiba HD DVD players that have been discontinued for about 4 years. And Macs with Superdrives. That's it. Regular DVD players won't play them, BluRay players won't play them.
If you want high def DVDs, you're going to have to invest in a BluRay burner, and software that will author BluRay disks, like Toast. Compressor will author BluRay, to regular DVDs no less (so I hear), but they have to be under 10 min. And then those will only work in BluRay players.

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I have built a Dual layer single sided disk. Everything in the build works great on the HD however once it is burned to disk parts of the second layer lock up or only play 1 frame every 20 secs.
Does anyone have any idea what causes this?

How is the disc designed?
One long track? Is the areas where it is skipping near the layer break or in a story? Did you build first then see if there is a valid layer break (a proper chapter selection will be dark black.)
Were these items encoded at a different rate and/or did you A.Pack all the audio?
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DVD Studio Pro - Burning multiples

I formatted my DVD as instructed by the Apple one to one tech, did the 'burn/format' to burn my first DVD. Came out great, menu, music, movie in it's entirety. But when I went to burn another and clicked on Burn/Format again a post came up saying 'A Video TS diretory of this project already exists. Choosing reuse will reuse as much of the video content as possible'. Since that seemed a bit disconcerting, I thought just hitting the burn symbol might work. Well, it didn't, it only burned portions of the movie with no menu.
How can I duplicate the original?
Thanks in advance.

Sometimes the computer will remember where you left off on a DVD. Since this is the exact same as the first one you made it thinks it is the same disc. Try testing DVD's in a DVD player, which is just good practice anyway.

DVD Studio Pro not burning

Ok, so, I recently created a projected, burned two or three copies with no problem. Tried burning again and this came up:
Starting DVD Build NAME OF PROJECT...
Compiler File Error
Build cancelled
Formatting finished.
Building was not successful. See log.
It just wouldn't burn this time. Why? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

In DVD Studio Pro, Click *Build and Format*...
Way at the bottom, instead of selecting your DVD Drive, select Hard Disk. And save as a disk Image (.img)
Then, once you create your disk image, from your finder, right click it and select open with "Disk Utility". Then in Disk Utility, select the image you just created and click burn.
Now you don't have to build a format every time you want to burn another copy... Heck, you don't even have to open DVD Studio Pro....

Using Qmaster with DVD Studio Pro OR Qmaster requires FCP on all machines?

Greetings everyone,
After a few days of tinkering I've finally managed to set up a managed cluster. However, I have a problem (surprise, surprise). When I submit a job to the cluster, Final Cut Pro suddenly opens up on all of the computers being used. I have Final Cut Studio 2 under an academic license, and all copies report that there is another copy running with the same serial number and that they must shut down. They render a few frames before suddenly quitting the job, regardless of whether I leave the message up or OK it away. I've done some reading from this thread which makes it sound like all systems must have a copy of FCP installed, or to use a slightly different method:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=375923&tstart=195
It's a bit upsetting as I'd originally read that systems could aid in rendering with just QMaster installed, and that they didn't need FCP installed. Hence, having FCP open up was unexpected, and I get the feeling that uninstalling FCP from those systems wouldn't help me.
But let me explain what I do normally, and perhaps some of you can guide me.
My work has me converting hundreds of tapes to DVD. Without QMaster, I would import the videos in Final Cut Pro, set chapter markers and in and out points, and then export the video (with barely any processing - an export typically takes 4 minutes on a dual 800 Mhz G4). I'd then import it to DVD Studio Pro, handle the menus, and then do a build and format. That process would take ~2-3 hours per DVD, and that is the part that I'd like to optimize.
The setup is such that I have one dual G5 wired to our hard drives (all Firewire 800), and then four other systems that connect to the G5 to access the HDs through a gigabit network switch. This has worked quite nicely in that it allows systems that only have Firewire 400 to work at Firewire 800 speeds regardless.
I'd originally thought that DVD Studio Pro 4 would automatically be able to process jobs through Qmaster, but I couldn't find a setting for it and it didn't seem to do it on its own. Instead, I was planning to redo my work flow such that the encoding of the video (the most time-consuming part of DVD Studio Pro's build procedure) would be done in Final Cut Pro. Or more specifically, it would go through Compressor. However, as I mentioned above, attempting to work this way causes Final Cut Pro to open up on all nodes within the cluster. As they all have the same serial number, they become unhappy under such conditions. I can uninstall them from the systems as I only ever use one copy at a time anyway, but as I mentioned from the link above, it seems that rendering through FCP -> Compressor will require FCP to be installed on all participating systems.
Does anyone have any advice for what to do? Is there a way to get around having FCP activate on all participating systems, or is there a way to do it directly through DVD Studio Pro (ideally in a manner that wouldn't cause DVD Studio Pro to activate on all participating systems)?
Any advice is much appreciated. The distributed encoding is really the only reason why we upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2, so I'm going to feel rather foolish if this doesn't work out.

A QCluster network isn't designed to distribute Rendering from FCP, rather it's designed to distribute encoding tasks.
As mentioned in that thread you linked to, the best workflow I can think of in your situation is to export Quicktime reference movies from FCP, then bring those reference files into Compressor for distribution to the QCluster for the transcode to MPEG 2 for DVD. There is a wealth of good information in that thread.
In short, if you attempt to use a Cluster to export from FCP, then all of your nodes will need to have separate licenses of FCP. But if you use the reference movie method, FCP is not required for the encoding.
One question for clarification with your workflow, are you logging & capturing these clips then sending them directly to DVD? or are you editing them in a timeline prior to export to DVD?
If you're just using FCP as your Log & Capture tool, then you can skip the reference movie step and just grab the captured clips in your Capture Scratch folder and send those directly to Compressor.

Dvd studio pro 4 and motion

I have to create corporate dvd and the want really fancy things. For example..on a menu they want the link buttons..to fly in from the left..then when a link is selected..they want the links to fly out to the left..then have the menu jump.. someone said i could create it in motion..but im havin trouble incorporating motion with dvd studio pro..from saving to exporting to importing in dvd studio pro can anyone help me?..and suggestiong to other resources as well..?

Hi:
You can just use the Motion project itself in DVDSP with no exporting at all, with the advantage that when updating the project you'll see the changes in DVDSP automatically. But your animations could run slow because DVDSP uses AFAIK the Motion engine to render the Motion project.
Another option is exporting your Motion project as Animation and use that file in DVDSP to keep the most of the quality.
Hope that helps !
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Hi folks-
I have to say I love my G5 and the very easy to use iDVD and Imovie apps. However I find that dvds I make will not play in many dvd players. This seems to be a known issue and I have tried various fixes without consistent results. Anyway, what I want to know, if anyone can tell me, is if upgrading to dvd studio pro will solve/help with this at all. As you all know it is very very disappointing to spend many hours and $$ creating a great video only to discover it is unplayable on random dvd players. It is also makes me look stupid, and I don't need any help in that regard.
Thanks for your attention.

Need more details. Do they freeze and stutter or not do anything at all in these players?
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Dual G5, iMac G5, PowerBook G4, IBook G4, G3, 604e Mac OS X (10.3.4)

DVD studio pro will not burn menus PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE HELP!!!
I have created a project, a DVD with menus and subtitles in 2 languages, yet when I burn the DVD (both using build/format option and build format options separately)the resulting DVD has no main menu, actually it has no menus at all! it goes straight into the DVD film where I can change subtitles language only from the remote buttons. The project compiles successfully but once formatting it gives me two hilghlighted errors in the log (which I gather are the layouts/menus)HERE IS THE LOG (highlighted part is error message):
Building Project Treesitting DVD with sub+menu
17/12/2007 14:12:01
Build Folder /Users/adelitahusni-bey/Library/Caches/DVD Studio Pro Files/HVDVDTS/HVDVDTS/nomad/treesit dvd
Starting DVD Build TREESITTINGDVD_WITHSUB...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project TREESITTINGDVD_WITHSUB
Compiling VMG Information...
Created 15 PGCs in VTSM1
Created 8 PGCs in VMG.
2 Menu(s) will be created...
Compiling Menu PGCs...
Compiling Menu#1 (Menu 1)...
Skipped Rendering Menu:Menu 1,Language:1.
Compiling Menu#2 (Menu 2)...
Skipped Rendering Menu:Menu 2,Language:1.
Writing HV000M02.EVO
1 VTSs and 1 Titles will be created...
Compiling VTS#1 (Track 1)...
Preparing Subtitles...
Muxing HV001T01.EVO
Done.
Linking VMG...
Linking VTS#1...
Writing VTS#1...
Writing VMG...
Writing Layout Info...
Compile Completed Successfully
+*Warning: The file ‘TREESITTINGDVD_WITHSUB.layout’ found in the VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.*+
+*Warning: The file ‘VOB_DATA.LAY’ found in the VIDEO_TS or HVDVD_TS folder will not be included in the final disc.*+
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Disc has no copyright material
Writing UDF 2.50 structures
Writing files
Writing final UDF information
Formatting finished.
Formatting finished.
DOES ANYONE PLEASE KNOW THE REASON FOR THIS???? AND HOW TO SOLVE IT???? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...HAVE TO SEND THIS PROJECT OFF SOON.
I have burned another project with menus succesfully..

Hi
FIRST check that your Play Movie button in your menu has NOT an Auto Action selected that make it plays automatically your movie when the Menu loads. You'll find that setting in the Advanced tab of Inspector. If not . . .
You can try a workaround, no matter that if you have your Menu as First Play it must work. Try yhis:
- Create a simple black JPG file i.e. in Photoshop
- Create a Slideshow
- Add a the JPG to the slideshow, set duration 2 secs
- Set the Slideshow as First Play
- Set Slideshow End Jump to your Main Menu
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Alberto

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