Recording to DVD from AVCHD Camcorder?

I have a Panasonic HDC-SD100 camcorder with some hours of unusable (presently) video. I recorded using the highest AVCHD setting and then loaded the clips into PE7 using the AVCHD setting. I then saved the file using DV AVI setting and re-opened that file in a new project, edited and tried to burn to disc. Although burning appeared to succeed, the disc was blank. I could play the AVI in Windows Media Player but that was it. I also tried saving as a folder and then burning but with no success. The computer is working OK and I can record other files to disc.
Advice would be appreciated.

Thanks - problem solved. I did burn to a folder on my hard drive but had
then tried to burn the video_ts files to disc rather than burning the whole
folder. Burnt the folder using image burn and it worked fine - just wish I
had posted the query a week ago!
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