I am having trouble editing an open DVD+RW disc in MYDVD Deluxe 5.0. The program gets me past the edit scenes window and into the building movie window, but when the little window that shows the progress of the little green spots starts to fill the window it stops at halfway and does'nt go any further. I have over 50 Gigs open on my hard drive, and the computer goes fast. My OS is windows xp home edition, the hard drive is 80 gigs, 512 megs of RAM, an intel pentium processor at 2.660 GHz speed. Can anyone help?

I am not quite sure what you mean by "editing an open DVD+RW disc in MYDVD Deluxe 5.0". Are you trying directly to edit a video on a DVD? if yes, then that cannot be done. You have to first bring the video to your hard drive and then add the video to the myDVD editor.

What I mean by "Open DVD, I mean that the Media is DVD+RW with a movie that I burned onto it using MYDVD 5.0. Does"nt +RW mean that I can write over what is on the disc? That's what the package says, and that's what the instructions in the help window say. How else do you get the movie on the hardrive other than by following the program instructions?
PS> Thanks for replying to my post.
pappycibak123 at comcast dot net
I am following the instructions in Editing an Open DVD disc in the help file.





Edited to obfuscate the email address

There are 3 kinds of discs, either CD or DVD:

• Commercially pressed discs, which have the pits and lands physically pressed into them (pits and lands are the physical equivalent of magnetic 0's and 1's)
• R discs, which have the pits and lands set by a laser "cooking" a dye - there are not quite as stable as commercially pressed discs, but close
• RW discs, which have the pits and lands set by the laser melting and re-crystalizing an aluminum alloy - which promptly starts to de-crystalize, taking all the data with it. At some point in time, the alloy was changed to make the discs less costly, and less reliable. You can't say in advance how long a given disc will last - usually months but it can be days or weeks or years, it varies from disc to disc - but it won't give you an engraved notice two weeks before it goes, it just goes when it goes.

RW media is useful for testing, or for transferring things between computers when there are no other options, and the original files are safely on the originating computer. Then it can be erased and re-used. (If you "delete" a file on either R or RW media, you do NOT gt the space back - you merely delete it from the TOC [Table of Contents]. The difference is you can erase the ENTIRE RW disc and start over.

If you want to make changes in something, you need to either follow Walt's advice, or use a Flash drive (aka Thumb / Keychain / Jump / Pen drive - they come in sizes up to 8GB) or an External Hard Drive in the first place.

Lynn

PS - I'd suggest you might want to remove your email address - these are public Forums, searched by google and other search engines, which in turn are searched by spammers seeking to "harvest" email addresses for spamming purposes ... altho it may already be too late.

pappycibak, carry on now, you have actually used the software. Problem is, not many here on the Roxio site has!

The bad: Doesn't back up to hard drives.

MyDVD Studio Deluxe, even re-edit CDs and DVDs you've already burned, because MyDVD Studio Deluxe is OpenDVD compliant.

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RW is still NOT a good long-term choice, even if it might be for short-term use, for the reasons given above.

I see you want to continue to assume everyone else is as knowledgable as you are.

Lynn

I don't think he does. We have a lot of examples of people who are not as knowledgeable, but just pretend they are.