Wasting DVD's

Hello all,
I am a fairly new user to Pre 11 and having problems burning the final movie to a DVD. So far I have wasted 2 DVD's in the process and am very frustrated that this program simply does not cooperate.
I shot video with my Nikon P7800 at the 720p 30 fps setting and dropped that into a project. Added Title and ending credits, so I ended up with about 50 minutes. Everytime I try to burn the DVD direct from Pre, it says the program stopped working and needs to close (Win7pro, 8gb ram, quad core, 2 x 500gb HD's)
So I saved to file TS folder and that burn played on the DVD plaer, but froze at the 18 minute mark. Then i saved to mpeg and burned with Windows burner, now the video is good, but the audio plays for 3 seconds and silent for 3 seconds. What am I doing wrong?
It's not the DVD's I am wasting, but compiling and burning takes up a lot of my time, which is the source of my frustration. All this time, getting a good looking preview and bammo, no joy on being able to veiw it on the big screen.
Any help?
Jimmy Bru

Jimmy,
Going back to your combined Project, what is the total Duration of the Timeline?
The reason that I ask is that the determining factor of quality (if all was done correctly in the Project setup, and any Image editing for a SlideShow) is the Bit-Rate of the Transcoding to author a DVD-Video.
PrE uses a 2-Pass Encoding, where the first pass is a survey of the whole Timeline, and the second pass is the actual Encoding run, taking that survey (first pass) into account, to get the highest Bit-Rate, per the settings, and size of DVD disc. If max. Quality can be achieved for all footage, then it's as good as it gets. However, if the Duration is long enough, then PrE tries to apply a higher Bit-Rate for footage, where there is motion, but then drops the Bit-Rate down, for static passages, to fit everything onto the disc. Titles (unless animated) are static, so their Bit-Rate can be lower, and that might show up.
If your total Duration is around 1 hour, then you should have the highest possible Bit-Rate (around 8MP/s) for everything. If the Duration is much over 90 mins., then something has to give (lower Bit-Rate), to fit that Timeline onto a blank disc.
Good luck, and please let us know about the Duration of the combined Project.
Hunt

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