Why is the DVD burning "freezing up"?

[claxius]

I am sooooooo frustrated. It seems once I have FINALLY figured out one problem, there is another one waiting right around the corner.

I'm trying to burn my 1h 50m project from pp 1.5 to dvd. I have been succesful with one burn but I accidently switched audio settings to mpeg for a ntsc project so I had to do it again.

But now, I have tried two seperate burns that have both frozen up a little over 3/4 of the way through. Atleast I think it has frozen. I know that vbr 2 pass takes a while but not 24 hours +. The first burn that worked was finished in less than 12 with the same settings.

I've tried cbr which finishes in a good amount of time, but both times I've done it no dvd player can read it. They say "bad disc".

I am so fed up. Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[TeleDan]

How do you know it was 3/4 of the way through? Is there a frame count? Sorry to ask but I don't use this feature of PPro. Is it even getting to the point where it's writing to DVD?

If not, can you tell which clip in your project it's hanging up on? If so, what effects to you have on that clip? I have a problem with the SteadyMovePro filter where it will sometimes get caught in an endless loop while rendering. I can tell when this happens by monitoring CPU and disk activity.

As for CBR encoding giving you a 'bad' disc, I would guess that you exceeded the capacity of the DVD. With nearly 2 hours of material, CBR can fill a disc pretty quickly depending on the bitrate. Have you done any bitrate calculations to determine if you can fit it all on one disc? There are freeware tools for doing this.

Beyond that I can only suggest that you work with a short portion of your video to verify that your workflow is good. Again, I would suggest you consider a seperate DVD authoring program. In this particular case, for example, if you were rendering your video and audio to harddisk and then using an authoring program to transcode and burn the DVD, to change the audio stream would only require you to re-export the audio from the timeline which would only take 10 minutes or so.

-Dan

 

[khmuse]

I don't usually recommend trying to burn a DVD directly out of Premiere (certainly one with a TRT of 110 mins). You would be better off to use the Adobe Media Encoder and exporting a pair of of .m2v and .wav files to be used in a real authoring platform (like Encore).

Most of the time these types of problems can be traced to the machine that is trying to accomplish the task. Problems like defragmentation, drives that are near capacity, etc. Assuming that you have looked at these issues, then consider exporting the project as a movie (.avi) and then opening a new project in premiere (after rebooting) importing the new .avi and then attempt to burn your DVD from the rendered file.

 

[kevlar]

I too have been burned (pardon the pun) by waiting for Premiere to do what it is supposed to do, only to have it freeze or tell me I did something wrong 12 hours later!! I tried different things but eventually realized that Adobe doesn't want us to burn projects (especially big ones) on Premiere, they want us to use Encore! How do I know this? Well I got my hands on a copy of Encore and the encoding/burn times were SO much faster it was a joke looking back at Premiere! A joke I tell you! And not only that, Encore saves the encoding so you can burn another disc easily. Premiere has no such saving feature. So, basically I'm saying you'll be much better off building and burning DVDs on Encore. Plus you'll get to create some nice menus too if you want!

 

[The Green One]

better quality?

better quality?

I don't usually recommend trying to burn a DVD directly out of Premiere (certainly one with a TRT of 110 mins). You would be better off to use the Adobe Media Encoder and exporting a pair of of .m2v and .wav files to be used in a real authoring platform (like Encore).

Is the Adobe Media Encoder the same as the file>export? Does this route give a better picture than exporting as DVAVI and using that file in Encore? My video quality on the TV is mediocre at best with disks I've made.