So many coasters, questions re: new computer? Successful DVD on the third day
#1
Posted 08 January 2008 - 12:02 PM
#2
Posted 08 January 2008 - 12:17 PM
For video work, I suggest at 2gb of RAM and a dedicated video card of at least 128MB but 256 would be great worth it. If you want a Dell, take a look at their 530 series which should be in your price range and do what you want. Some can be purchased with XP and/or Vista. They may come with the OEM version of Roxio which you can remove completely before installing your version.
I don't think it's worth it to upgrade your system anymore but that's just my opinion.
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#3
Posted 08 January 2008 - 08:23 PM
For video work, I suggest at 2gb of RAM and a dedicated video card of at least 128MB but 256 would be great worth it. If you want a Dell, take a look at their 530 series which should be in your price range and do what you want. Some can be purchased with XP and/or Vista. They may come with the OEM version of Roxio which you can remove completely before installing your version.
I don't think it's worth it to upgrade your system anymore but that's just my opinion.
Thanks so much for the very sensible advice. I am now investigating....
#4
Posted 09 January 2008 - 09:41 PM
I disagree with that statement and I believe so will most users of EMC 10. Videowave is the program designed for editing and myDVD is designed for menu creation and burning.
Walt
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#5
Posted 10 January 2008 - 11:27 PM
It probably is designed with that purpose in mind. But after three days of editing with Videowave and then attempting to create DVD by using DVD Express from within Videowave and having the result be either a hanging burn or a completed DVD with no sound, doing it the other way (selecting Edit Video from within My DVD, and, after making the change, burning an image first and then burning the image to disc separately) worked for me. I Maybe it wouldn't work again. Yesterday I ordered a new more powerful computer - giving up my dream of buying a nice new big TV (sigh) - and when it arrives I will see if the program does what it is supposed to.
#6
Posted 11 January 2008 - 03:19 AM
The issue probably wasn't Video Wave; it was probably My DVD Express. Save your VideoWave project, close Video Wave, open My DVD and add the project to My DVD as a movie.
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#7
Posted 11 January 2008 - 08:59 PM
I did that. Several times. And I got a fine DVD with NO SOUND. Thru searching, I found someone on this forum who had the same problem with sound disappearing from an edited DVD. Then the problem cleared up. So, following her example, I kept trying. I tell you, I tried over and over and only when I used what must be a link inside My DVD, a button labeled 'Edit Video' and then edited the orieingal mpeg and saved as an image did I get a successful burn to disc. When I saved the edited Videowave file it was DMSM and saved from My DVD it was DMSD. DMSM hung when imported into My DVD. Weird. If I have success with the new computer, I'll post a message saying all is well and maybe it was all some video card problem (I did keep getting messages that my video driver needing upgrading but Windows and then Dell said no.) I have tried to reconstruct all this as best I could but nobody's perfect.
#8
Posted 12 January 2008 - 05:07 AM
In Video Wave, after you have created a project but while it is still open, go to the top menu and select Tools>Options> Clear Proxy files. Wait a minute or two and then use the film reel icon above the preview to output the project to a "mpg2 best quality" file. Name and select the folder location for that mpg2 file. The file will encode. As you know this is the slow part of the process.
Once the file is encoded, preview it in the window or use something like WMP to watch and listen to it. If the mpg2 file is correct, then you can add that file (and others) to the my DVD project as a movie (title). Those files will not encode again unless you are trying to put more than one hour of movies on a DVD. There is no way you can lose the audio for that title unless your burn process is screwed up.
Let us know if you have success with this.
This post has been edited by sknis: 12 January 2008 - 05:15 AM
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Laptop - Windows 7 Home
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#9
Posted 12 January 2008 - 03:00 PM
#10
Posted 12 January 2008 - 08:50 PM
Once the file is encoded, preview it in the window or use something like WMP to watch and listen to it. If the mpg2 file is correct, then you can add that file (and others) to the my DVD project as a movie (title). Those files will not encode again unless you are trying to put more than one hour of movies on a DVD. There is no way you can lose the audio for that title unless your burn process is screwed up.
Let us know if you have success with this.
Along with other things, I'm just not very lucky. I followed your above instructions and everything was going along fine and I was about to burn the project when my D drive broke. I piece of plastic came off the middle. Soooo...But - when I get my new computer, should I still follow this method, avoiding saving anything as DMSM and creating a video file which is mpeg-2? What about if I have a video that is another format? - Another subject: Is it hard to replace a CD/DVD drive, could I do it myself??
#11
Posted 13 January 2008 - 04:27 AM
It is not hard to replace a burner. Are you going to keep this older computer? The reason I asked is there are USB connected burners available for a relatively low cost. If you buy one of those, you can use it on either computer so you would not replace the burner on the old computer. Of course internal drives are less expensive. Just follow the instructions packaged with the drive.
You may not have to go through the pre-encoding with the new computer, you'll just have to try it. I do it as a just in case I screwed up something in putting the project together. I have the mpg2 file that I can preview in WMP or other mpg2 player. It breaks up the work flow if you are trying to create several projects and then burn them to disc but I usually don't mind the break while the project encodes.
I'm not sure what you mean by other formats? Video Wave will take most of the formats (like AVI) as part of the project and encode them. You should not encode avi files or the like before using them in a Video Wave project.
What did you get for a new computer?
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Laptop - Windows 7 Home
Dell XPS 1645, Intel I7 1,6G with overdrive ,4G RAM, 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730, Sound Blaster X-Fi MB Panzer, 500G hard drive.
Apple =OSX 10.5
MacBook Pro; 15.4-inch widescreen display, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, 200GB hard drive, 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW), NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. ILife 08, Toast 10, Final Cut Express 4 and Photoshop 4.
#12
Posted 13 January 2008 - 10:42 AM
Just a little clarification on "dmsm" and "mpeg2" files.
dmsm files are not video files at all but your video project files created when you select "save as". It simply creates a file containing the instruction on how to create the video - it contains the list of source files, editing instructions, etc. If you create your video project in Videowave you should always save as you go along - the saved file has the extension "dmsm"
If you want to create a mpeg2 (or other format) video file you should select "Output production .." and then select theoutput format you want.
If you are working with myDVD a similar project file is created when you do a Save except it has the extension "dmsd". This file only contains the instructions to create the DVD.
Walt
Dell Dimension 4500S;Windows XP Home Edition SP3; Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.00GHz, 784MB RAM
(NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, 128 MB memory disabled because of failure)
Intel® 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller; DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
SoundMAX Digital Audio
SamsunG CDR/DVD-ROm SM 332B
HLDS GSA-5120D External LG Super-Multi ReWriter
WDC WD400BB-75DEA0, 40 GB HD; Prolific PL3507 Combo External Hard Drive, 80 GB; Maxtor 6 L200R0 USB Hard Drive, 250GB
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook; Intel Duo CPU 64 bit, T6400 @ 2.0Ghz; 4.0 GB RAM; Vista Home Premium 64bit
Toshiba MK3252GSX ATA 286GB hard drive; HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T50L ATA burner
Intel 4Series Express Chipset
#13
Posted 13 January 2008 - 03:28 PM
You may not have to go through the pre-encoding with the new computer, you'll just have to try it. I do it as a just in case I screwed up something in putting the project together. I have the mpg2 file that I can preview in WMP or other mpg2 player. It breaks up the work flow if you are trying to create several projects and then burn them to disc but I usually don't mind the break while the project encodes.
I'm not sure what you mean by other formats? Video Wave will take most of the formats (like AVI) as part of the project and encode them. You should not encode avi files or the like before using them in a Video Wave project.
What did you get for a new computer?
I am going to keep the old computer because it is a laptop and and I'm going to network it with the new one. But I won't do serious video work on it. New computer: Dell 530, Intel Core2 proessor Q6600 (2.4Ghs 1066FSB) w/Quad Core Technology and 8MB cashe, 3GB RAM, 800MHz, 256MB Radeon HD 2600 Xt, 320GB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive. Other formats: I have an old device (Director's Cut) which allows me to import VHS (family stuff) into Windows Movie Maker and then save it in AVI and then import into My DVD. I have not done anything with this stuff in EMC10 but did a little with MY DVD 9 and it worked. MY DVD won't recognize this device, which is firewire and frankly, I forgot all about getting some kind of import-video card on the new one. Would be nice if it was just 'there'. But I do have firewire on the new one to accomdate my 2 existing external drives and this import device. I would like to think I could install a new drive on my old computer for any number of uses and not have to worry about carrying around any extra plug-ins so it could be used strictly as a mobile device.
#14
Posted 13 January 2008 - 03:43 PM
dmsm files are not video files at all but your video project files created when you select "save as". It simply creates a file containing the instruction on how to create the video - it contains the list of source files, editing instructions, etc. If you create your video project in Videowave you should always save as you go along - the saved file has the extension "dmsm"
If you want to create a mpeg2 (or other format) video file you should select "Output production .." and then select theoutput format you want.
If you are working with myDVD a similar project file is created when you do a Save except it has the extension "dmsd". This file only contains the instructions to create the DVD.
In other words, if I am editing an existing mpg file I should always do as I did in the example in the previous message - create a new video which is an MPG-2 which I then import into MY DVD? Videowave always asks you if you want to 'save' and I have always said 'yes' and let it go at that assuming that my changes to the original video were picked up in the result, which was 'dmsm'. Then I imported this thing into MY DVD and had problems. I don't know if I am stating this well but - what will happen if I import an AVI file into Videowave? Is the process different? Or, with a more powerful computer, will the steps towards a finished product just go along intuitively within MY DVD instead of editing and saving in Videowave? In MY DVD, what does the button labeled 'Edit Movie' mean? Isn't it a link to Videowave? The screens are the same as Videowave. Hoping to sort out my confusion but definitely fell I am making progress.....
#15
Posted 13 January 2008 - 03:48 PM
Another option is a USB - IDE cable, which allows you to plug in a drive. It is more for benchwork, and not recommended for long-term setups, but that's what I've used on my DVD burner, which I use less than once a month. To put it in the WinXP tower would cause hassles with the OEM Version Nero, which can recognize the two drives (CD-RW drive and Combo drive) there now (thanks to the place where I got the computer) but would not be likely to find anything else - Nero hobbles their OEM software by making it only apply to the drive with which it ships (that's where the computer store came in - altho each of the drives came with an OEM Nero.)
Edit: link to picture & description of USB - IDE cable
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=USB2IDE-N
Lynn
This post has been edited by lynn98109: 13 January 2008 - 03:51 PM

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