[Liz]

Hey,

I am a little new at all this so bear with me...

I use my Canon Mini DV NTSC ZR85 to take home videos and such and then hook up the canon to my
Dell XPS M140 labtop that has a philips CDRW/DVD Drive using a Firewire 1394 compliant cable to store my videos on my labtop.

I also use my usb connection to the Mad Dog external mulitmedia lightscribe 16X Triple Format DVD-RW drive to be able to burn onto dvd's. The mad dog came with the Roxio Creator 8.2 XE software which i can successfully use.

Did I confuse you yet???

Now all I want to do is burn my project onto a dvd using the maddog. I keep getting this message "insert valid media" and out pops the blank dvd. This happens over and over again. I realize that when i go to save project as the file type is set up to (*.dmsd) and I can not change it. Also I created a video file by changing the output as. The preview is now set to (*.wmv) but when i go back into the menu mode so I can burn it the menu mode is saved as (*.vcd) I am assuming this is why the mad dog can't recognize the media since it is in the wrong format right??? Is there a way to convert this file into a dvd format???

Let me know if you are totally confused???

[gi7omy]

I googled the maddog drive and found this

"...The version of Roxio Easy Media Creator only supports VCD, not DVD...."

So it looks as if maddog have bundled a crippled version of EMC with the drive and any support is down to them as the OEM suppliers

Sorry about that

[Liz]

gi7omy, on Jan 25 2007, 06:10 PM, said:

I googled the maddog drive and found this

"...The version of Roxio Easy Media Creator only supports VCD, not DVD...."

So it looks as if maddog have bundled a crippled version of EMC with the drive and any support is down to them as the OEM suppliers

Sorry about that

Oh so there is nothing I can do? That is awful but thanks for looking into it.

[gi7omy]

You could probably pick up a copy of EMC8 from Amazon or eBay fairly cheaply or try the trial version of EMC9 (30 days free) but in that case, make syre your system exceeds the minimum specs

http://forums.suppor...showtopic=13472