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[NealW]

Hello,
I am running a HP Pavalion 1630n AMDDuocore 4600, 2gb ram on board graphics Nvidia 6150.  I have been using Roxio since version 5, upgraded from 7.5 to 9. I was able to capture and edit the video (from Sony HC46 dv) but had a black screen when trying to burn dvd. I checked this forum, read about the rendering problems and updated the video drivers. That worked, but when I played the burned DVD back there where artifacts and blurry edges whenever I had panned my video camera.  I tried several things, such as setting the performance of the nvidia to highest quality and application control for the other settings. This did not help. I went out last night and purchased a PCI-X PNY 7300GT video card and installed that. I updated the drivers but now I am back to the black screen again. I can not even put a menu on the MYDVD screen. When I hit the green play arrow nothing happens and trying to burn the dvd just brings up an arrow message. Obviously I am not too happy right now as my costs are escalating.  What can I do to resolve this issue or should I just uninstall version 9 and go back to 7.5?

[NealW]

Hello,
Well I surreneder.  I have tried all the fixes. I had 6,7,7.5 on a Pentium 3 with ATI all-in-wonder board and had no problems. I wanted to move up to the big time so bought HP Pavilion a1630n, AMD Duo-Core 4600 2gb RAM internal nvidia 6150 and then Creator 9. I was albe to burn one DVD which was comprised of analog camcorder footage. I had also purchased a Sony HC46 dv camcorder. After the first DVD, Itried to burn a combination of the last of my old analog camcorder footage and the new,, downloaded by firewire, dv camcorder footage. The dv camcorder footage showed artifacts every time the camcorder panned.  Tried reloading software, set the anti-aliasing filters and so forth, no luck.  I went out and bought a new PNY nvidia 7300GT video card, downloaded the new drivers but same stuff.Then when clicking the DVD icon from the editor, dvd express came up with a black screen and would not burn. MyDVD showed a menu and the stuff I needed to burn but gave a 80040207 error at the end saying could not encode the menu.  Reloaded software no luck. Tested graphics numerous times always indicated hardware good , also had downloaded latest directx 9. Tried both software and hardware buring method same thing. Tried buring iso, it goes through the rendering but doesn't compete menuing at the end, giving me the 80040207 error so that does not work either. Apparently I should have stayed with the motherboard 6150 nvidia chip since that did not give me the black screens of death, just the artifacts whenever the camera panned. i have spent too many hours on this with my projects still sitting here, so moooving back to 7.5. I have owned Roxio 5, 6,, 7,7,5  and always had good success. very disappointing.

[gi7omy]

Your post is very difficult to read (I'd suggest breaking it into paragraphs) but anyway

Try completely uninstalling the video card drivers (forcing windows back to that horrible 16 colour mode) and then re-install. There could be a problem if older drivers are still there.

Also, can you disable the onboard graphics in BIOS? That way it's being forced to use the new card

[NealW]

gi7omy, on Feb 9 2007, 07:44 AM, said:

Your post is very difficult to read (I'd suggest breaking it into paragraphs) but anyway

Try completely uninstalling the video card drivers (forcing windows back to that horrible 16 colour mode) and then re-install. There could be a problem if older drivers are still there.

Also, can you disable the onboard graphics in BIOS? That way it's being forced to use the new card

Hello,
Thanks for your response. I have disabled the on board graphics card and have done the other forcing windows back. Killed off all the old drivers. Taking off from work this pm to see if I can try something else along with other work.

I like your comments from Star Gate and I still like CW although it only seems like the only time I get to use it is on Field Day.

[gi7omy]

Let us know how you get on.

I do wish I could read Morse better than I can really - just hit a wall at 5 wpm and never got past that

[Tom at Roxio]

NealW, on Feb 9 2007, 04:53 AM, said:

Hello,
Well I surreneder.  I have tried all the fixes. I had 6,7,7.5 on a Pentium 3 with ATI all-in-wonder board and had no problems. I wanted to move up to the big time so bought HP Pavilion a1630n, AMD Duo-Core 4600 2gb RAM internal nvidia 6150 and then Creator 9. I was albe to burn one DVD which was comprised of analog camcorder footage. I had also purchased a Sony HC46 dv camcorder. After the first DVD, Itried to burn a combination of the last of my old analog camcorder footage and the new,, downloaded by firewire, dv camcorder footage. The dv camcorder footage showed artifacts every time the camcorder panned.  Tried reloading software, set the anti-aliasing filters and so forth, no luck.  I went out and bought a new PNY nvidia 7300GT video card, downloaded the new drivers but same stuff.Then when clicking the DVD icon from the editor, dvd express came up with a black screen and would not burn. MyDVD showed a menu and the stuff I needed to burn but gave a 80040207 error at the end saying could not encode the menu.  Reloaded software no luck. Tested graphics numerous times always indicated hardware good , also had downloaded latest directx 9. Tried both software and hardware buring method same thing. Tried buring iso, it goes through the rendering but doesn't compete menuing at the end, giving me the 80040207 error so that does not work either. Apparently I should have stayed with the motherboard 6150 nvidia chip since that did not give me the black screens of death, just the artifacts whenever the camera panned. i have spent too many hours on this with my projects still sitting here, so moooving back to 7.5. I have owned Roxio 5, 6,, 7,7,5  and always had good success. very disappointing.

Neal,
Are you seeing artifacts on your PC monitor, or on a television when you play the DVD in a DVD player?

The PC isn't a good reference for your video footage... for several reasons.  First, your PC video card has a different refresh rate than your video footage.  Second, your video footage is interlaced video and your PC's display is progressive scan.  To really see what your video looks like you need to burn a DVD and play it back in a DVD player connected to a television.

Do you have digital image stabilization on your camcorder?  Turn it off.  Whenever you pan quickly this could result in jerky movements in your video.  If you have optical image stabilization, leave it on... this shouldn't cause this type of problem.

DV camcorders use digital compression to record video to tape.  When you make a DVD with Easy Media Creator this DV video must be encoded to MPEG-2.  This compression isn't able to encode every detail of the original footage.  When scenes are in motion the MPEG-2 compression quality will suffer... artifacts aren't unusual for any MPEG-2 encoder under these circumstances.  Scenes with lots of details and lots of motion are difficult to encode without visible artifacts.  This is just the nature of the beast.  For the best quality video, limit the amount of content on each DVD.  The more content you squeeze on your DVDs, the lower the encoded bitrate, and the more chance of having visible compression artifacts.

It's hard to know exactly what the problem is without seeing the artifacts.  But I hope this helped you.

Tom