[Jmak]

I have an 84 min dvd I burned on Final Cut Pro, plays perfectly in any dvd player, but I can't seem to get it copied in Roxio, it stops encoding (or whatever it's called) about half way and says something's wrong with the original dvd, dust or finger smudges. It was pretty clean but I wiped it, tried again, and the same thing, stops halfway and won't encode anymore. I have done shorter dvds, 15-45 min, same as the 84 min in terms of how I made them, and it worked fine. Any comments/suggestions greatly appreciated.

[grandpabruce]

I have an 84 min dvd I burned on Final Cut Pro, plays perfectly in any dvd player, but I can't seem to get it copied in Roxio, it stops encoding (or whatever it's called) about half way and says something's wrong with the original dvd, dust or finger smudges. It was pretty clean but I wiped it, tried again, and the same thing, stops halfway and won't encode anymore. I have done shorter dvds, 15-45 min, same as the 84 min in terms of how I made them, and it worked fine. Any comments/suggestions greatly appreciated.

What program are you using, in the suite?

You can try copying the DVD, to your hard drive, then burn from the hard drive. If it won't copy, from the DVD, to the hard drive, then the DVD has read errors.

[cdanteek]

I have an 84 min dvd I burned on Final Cut Pro, plays perfectly in any dvd player, but I can't seem to get it copied in Roxio, it stops encoding (or whatever it's called) about half way and says something's wrong with the original dvd, dust or finger smudges. It was pretty clean but I wiped it, tried again, and the same thing, stops halfway and won't encode anymore. I have done shorter dvds, 15-45 min, same as the 84 min in terms of how I made them, and it worked fine. Any comments/suggestions greatly appreciated.

Sounds like your getting a read error. Make a folder on your hard drive, place the DVD you want to copy in a drive. Open my computer and right click the drive with the DVD, click explore, highlight the Video_ts folder, right click copy. Navigate to your new folder, open it right click paste. Now see if it copies to it, if so, load it in disc copier and burn a copy.

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[grandpabruce]

Sounds like your getting a read error. Make a folder on your hard drive, place the DVD you want to copy in a drive. Open my computer and right click the drive with the DVD, click explore, highlight the Video_ts folder, right click copy. Navigate to your new folder, open it right click paste. Now see if it copies to it, if so, load it in disc copier and burn a copy.

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Another echo in here?

[cdanteek]

Another echo in here?

Yes there is...........

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[Jmak]

I had another copy of the film that was burned on FCP years ago and I did a disc copy on that and miraculously it worked fine, no problems, so I made copies off that. But I will try the above suggestions with the "bad" original to see if I can get it to work. Thanks, Jim

[cdanteek]

Jim, I would open DVDInfo Pro in Roxio EMC 9 Tools and run the Read error test on the bad disc, it's the magnifying glass over the disc icon at top. Also check the media ID (MID) on the good disc and the bad disc, I would be interested in knowing the MID on both disc's.

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[Jmak]

will try that, sounds a little complex for me, but I might figure it out. Thanks.

[Brendon]

Jmak,

The fellow who said burning DVDs was "Easy" was a salesman 'cause it isn't!!
However the people here will help you through the complex bits.

[Jmak]

I learned that awhile ago, been editing on Final Cut for about 4 years now and never count on dvd recording going well. I had a FCP 2-minute video that took 5 hours to encode and 5 more to burn, then a 45min doc I did that took just about 45min to encode and same to burn. I use Roxio on my pc laptop pretty much to make copies as it's a lot faster than going thru iDVD. Still, my curiosity demands I at least try to find out why that one dvd wouldn't work.

[Brendon]

Fair enough.

If you get the information that cdanteek is asking for, I think he'll be your best chance for satisfying your curiosity if anyone can.