I have Pinnacle’s Studio 8 and am able to create DVDs with it. When I export my movie, I can either burn it directly to a DVD-R or make a copy of it on the harddrive so I can burn it later. My question is, is there anything special I need to do to burn it later? Do I choose “data disk” from my software meny and burn it as if it were computer data? Will that play on my DVD player? Thanks.
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This page has what you’re looking for. Look about a third of the way down the page, under the heading “How to author and burn MPEG2 to a compliant DVD with menus and chapters.” There are several guides.
Sorry I can’t offer more specific information. I’m interested in video encoding, but I don’t have a DVD-R drive, so I haven’t read up on all of this.
Never heard of sending a dvd flick to the dvd directly thats why you must use a program to write them. A dvd likes to have a couple of folders: VIDEO_ts & AUDIO_ts I think they are, but if you look at a commercial dvd you can tell.
That’s where I get confused…When I crate a DVD image on my computer, here are the folders it gives me:
DVDTmp
Menus
mpi
Video_ts
vmgm
vts_1
I tried burning them all to a DVD and testing it on various players. My computer DVD player could play them just fine. My stand alone DVD player would load the menu, but then freeze upon making a selection, and my PS2 and Xbox both couldn’t read it at all. I then tried making a DVD with just the Video_ts folder, but the results were identical. I should also note that I’m using a DVD-RW