Dvd Studio Pro ... The Devil Himself?

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Peter Murphy

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I want to murder apple(kidding I love you, send me free stuff).

I've been using FCP hd for quite sometime, I don't really see the point in upgrading this program or my DVD STUDIO PRO 3 to get a whole load of new functions I don't care about.

Anyways, here is the problem. FCP still works like a champ. Dvd studio pro on the other hand - works delightfully, unless you actually want to make a dvd. When I click burn dvd, it does one of three things.

1. Starts and stays at 14% complete, for eternity. When I become wildly furious and click cancel, the log informs me that the "Building was not successful. See log." If the following means anything to you let me know.

Starting DVD Build WDCK__PREDUB...
Compiler Initializing...
Precompiling Project WDCK__PREDUB
Parsing Assets...
Encoding Assets...
Formatting finished.
Building was not successful. See log.
Build cancelled

2. Starts at 14% and works its way all the way up to 28%, at which point I get giddy thinking it is finally working again! Then after 700 years I realize that it isn't working at all. I contemplate suicide, but I realize that I don't want to be condemned to eternal hellfire only to be poked and prodded by the 'great' SATAN - or as we shall call him "DVD STUDIO PRO 3."


3. Crashes at its leisure.


I knew I shouldn't have upgraded to leopard. I don't know if thats the culprit, as I haven't tried to burn a dvd for quite some time before the upgrade. Either way, apple is evil - so is microsoft....I would rather paint each frame of an 80 hour epic by hand than buy a newer version.

I've repaired the disk permissions and all that crap too, reinstalled it, etc. I'm using a Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 with 1GB DDR SDRAM if thats any help. I also recently installed a modified NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS video card, since they stopped making cards compatible with my computer (This is card number 4, I guess I just burn right through them).


Anyways,

If anyone has any tips or what I can do to fix it let me know.

Thanks,

Peter
 
I'd suggest wiping your system out and doing a fresh install of Tiger and your original Final Cut version, switch off automatic upgrade and that should do it. Sorry to state the obvious but yeah- if you want to stay on 2006's version of FCP you need to stick with 2006's OS. Or pay up and upgrade like everyone else.

-Noah
 
If it is not this it is that!

If it is not this it is that!

I feel your pain. I have the latest version of everything and I even own them. I run on first gen Macbook, not pro. Even though it is not supported it works great (except Color and 3D Motion). My burn issue is the failure of my DVD drive. I have the error that is spreading like wildfire across Macdom.
 
He's a moderator and a professional editor and teacher and trainer for FCP and FCP workflow.

You may not like his answer but if you're gonna mix match old FCP and new operating systems you may insight havoc.

He didn't say you had to BUY anything from apple he said, go back to your old OS if you want to use an OLD version of FCP.
 
Compressor 2 and Leopard don't mix. Trust me, I was in your shoes a few months back. I've switched back to Tiger and everything is running smooth again.
 
Hey peter I love your response to NoahK thats classic. Just go to any apple store and ask a genius anything technical and they tell you to wipe and reinstall I just love it. Thats a three week process for me. I run over a hundred gigs of software on a dual G5 2.0 with 5.5 gigs of ram and 5 terabytes of storage and I'm not rebuilding.

Your problem can be two fold. Certainly should not have gone to Leopard on the dual G5. I don't care what anybody tells you. The best for intel machines but just too many problems on a G5. The problem with L is that the OS goes past you pioneer burners ability to burn disks.
The same problem on Tiger OS with the newest Quicktime and compressor. The other problem that people have been having is the burner itself. The rom is not new enough for the new media dvd disks to read reliably. Many people have had to upgrade the rom in their burner so as not to make bad disks. This is because many disk makers have changed their format on the new disks.

I have a Pioneer 106 internally and an 116 externally and I have to be careful which media I use in which burner. If I try the new media in the 106 I get the same result as you it just sits there and will idle at about 20% done. If I use old media in the new burnner it just wont work at all. Coasters only. Even on the 116 the new dual layer disks only work part time and I'm ready to buy the new 121 thats out that is suppose to cure the problem so you can try this new burner.

The quickest way to see what it is, is to borrow a new external burner from a friend and get some new disks made in the past 3 months and try it with leopard and see if this will cure your problem. Nobody wants to rebuld if you don't have to.

You can upgrade your burner to the new rom and that will allow the old burners to read the new format. The problem is that you have to find a mac rom upgrade which is suppose to be out now but if you can't get it you have to put it in an external box and hook up to a pc and install the new rom and then back to the mac and its worked for many people in doing this. Good luck and I hope you don't have to rebuild.

Good Luck!
 
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Hey don't shoot the messenger brother. You asked for a technical solution to an economical problem. You either keep your machine frozen in an older version to keep it functional or you upgrade and stay current. Bill Gates isn't giving everyone who's still on Windows 3.1 the free upgrades to run Office 2008 either. :)

-Noah
 
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Off topic, but the Optiarc DVD burner that came in my early 2008 model Mac Pro is the biggest POS in the history of optical drives. Total garbage. I just wanted to point that out. I put my trusty Pioneer 112 in there and it works flawlessly.

Build your DVD to an .img file first and then burn that in Disk Utility.

1. Author and save in DVDSP
2. Click "build and burn."
3. Name DVD, choose hard drive. ( I also turn off regions I don't use)
4. Name the .img file and choose save location.
5. When it's done, browse to the image file (in Finder) and 2x click to mount it. DVD player will launch automatically and play your .img file. Soft proof if you want or just close DVD player.
6. Open Disk Utility. Choose the mounted volume.
7. Burn it at the lowest speed.

Enjoy.
 
Ming said:
Off topic, but the Optiarc DVD burner that came in my early 2008 model Mac Pro is the biggest POS in the history of optical drives. Total garbage. I just wanted to point that out. I put my trusty Pioneer 112 in there and it works flawlessly.

Build your DVD to an .img file first and then burn that in Disk Utility.

1. Author and save in DVDSP
2. Click "build and burn."
3. Name DVD, choose hard drive. ( I also turn off regions I don't use)
4. Name the .img file and choose save location.
5. When it's done, browse to the image file (in Finder) and 2x click to mount it. DVD player will launch automatically and play your .img file. Soft proof if you want or just close DVD player.
6. Open Disk Utility. Choose the mounted volume.
7. Burn it at the lowest speed.

Enjoy.
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Also Toast will often yield a more reliable burn with DVD-Rs than DVDSP itself. So build to a video_Ts and then burn with Toast. :)

-Noah
 
NoahK said:
Also Toast will often yield a more reliable burn with DVD-Rs than DVDSP itself. So build to a video_Ts and then burn with Toast. :)

-Noah
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I second use of Toast. Nice product, and hopefully DVDSP 5 will have a few more tools for publishing once the DVD's are authored. I use -R's as well, Taiyo-Yuden waterproofed glossy 16x to be precise, burning at 2x. I've never had a single failure knock on wood, and that's nearing 1000 burns for clients on 2x. I have had failures/glitches with burn rates as low as 6x so don't even bother anymore.

The burn rate is the critical component here and DVDSP is just lacking in allowing the user to adjust it.
 
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