Dvd Studio Pro DVD RW issues

I use dvd rw's at work every day. I have never had issues until yesterday when I put a dvd rw in the drive to burn a video for a woman. When I click burn it goes through all the menus, and then goes to writing image and the status bar stays at full, i can't click cancel, and it doesn't go to burn. Also, the disc never spins during the erasing process. I used a DVD -R instead and it worked fine. I could blame the woman who brought her disc in but that's rude.

It could very well be the disc. Some brands are just bad. Since you are able to burn onto other DVD RW or DVD-R disc I would suggest just doing that.

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