Trouble with DVD Architect

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knightowl

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Any help will be much appreciated....

Okay. I've gotten to the point where I prepared a folder, and my film has been properly prepared from what I can tell. I'm having difficulty now burning the footage to DVD. When I go to the BURN dialog, the options for NEXT and FINISH are not highlighted. Do I have to specify a path to my DVD burner for DVD A to recognize??? If so, how do I do this???

This is the last step, and I'm getting anxious. I can preview the movie in DVD A and it looks great, I'm just having trouble getting it onto a DVD.

Please help!!!!

Jeff
 
Sounds like DVDA isn't recognizing your burner. Do you have all the drivers installed, and are they working properly?
 
Yes. All the drivers are installed and I've used it for other purposes in the past, but for some reason DVD A doesn't recognize it. Is there something I need to do within DVD A to make it recognize the burner?? For example, is there something in the preferences or properties that I should be doing???

Thanks
 
I gave up on DVDA for burning. It has serious hardware issues with many (most) drives. I prepare in DVDA, then burn using Nero. Extra step but works great, with 100% good disks.
 
Make sure you have the latest version of DVDA.

Which did you install first, DVDA or the DVD burner drivers? If DVDA, try re-installing DVDA.
 
I'm almost positive I installed DVDA first because I bought the burner so I could burn DVDs using DVDA. Thanks. I'll try this.

So I should uninstall DVDA only, then reinstall?

Jeff
 
Yes. Sometimes burning programs have a tough time recognizing drives whose drivers were installed later. Give it a shot.
 
As I posted on the other thread, I also have had this problem of DVDA not detecting my DVD burner (Toshiba drive, DVDA2 currently), if I installed Nero on the same "film making" partition that has DVDA on it...

I always had to uninstall Nero, delete the folder, then do the same to DVDA, then re-install it... DVDA always detected the Toshiba drive afterwards... (ie, after Nero was gone)


Recently I had to reinstall my OS (Win 2K), and all my programs. I accidentally installed Nero on the filmmaking partition with DVDA2...(I'd upgraded from DVDA to DVDA2 in the interim) However, when I repeat my old "fix" process, DVDA2 still won't detect the Toshiba burner...

...I even went into regedit, searched for "nero" and "ahead" and "InCD" and deleted all entries, but it had no effect...

So for now, I'm preparing in DVDA2, and burning with Nero (still have Nero installed on my "gaming" partition)
 
man sound like dvda2 is a pain in the mule, i think i m having the same issues, not detecting my Pioneer DVDRW DRIVE, it prepared ok, but just won't burn. any know hows?
 
My DVDA2 worked like a champ on my old single layer DVD burner. Once I got a new system with a dual layer, it wouldn't recogize the drive at all. Now, even DVDA3 won't recoginze the drive (every time I go to burn there's an exception & crashes). So, I do as several of you are, I prepare & author in DVDA3, but burn it with a different software (Ulead DVD Workshop2).
 
is the DVDA3 better? like does the image get better after rendering in DVDA3 as compare to dvda2?
 
Jubal28 said:
No. Besides, you're better off rendering as MPEG for DVD Architect out of Vegas.
Click to expand...

Why is it better? I add up all my footages in V5, upto 2hrs of raw footage, then render it into a 2hr uncompressed AVI, then use DVDA2 to burn that 2hr AVI into a DVD. This way is not as good as rendering into MPEG first? why?
 
Do you use "fit to disc" option when burning 2hr AVI into a DVD?
I am having difficulties with such a long file, it won't fit onto a 4,7GB DVD unless I decrease the bit-rate.
Am I missing something?
Also, why is it better to prepare from Vegas for DVDA?
What's the best workflow for this method?

Cheers
 
For image quality, it's the same. But if you render from Vegas into the DVD Architect format, DVD Architect does not have to re-render when it prepares the DVD. Then, if you want to make a change to a menu or notice a misspelling, you don't have to go through the whole render process multiple times.
 
but if you render in Vegas, you don't know how much to render to fix a DVD, in DVDA2, just push the fix to disk, and it all fits. but in vegas.... how to fit that?
 
You can learn to estimate. You can adjust bitrate when you render from Vegas. Keep in mind that a single-layer DVD generally holds about an hour of best-quality video, and work from there.
 
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