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I am trying to persuade Creator version 8 to put a movie on a DVD. The movie is in WMV format and over an hour long. When I did this several years ago I recall there was good reason to make an image file and burn DVDs from that. I started by opening up the help entries and following them carefully. I showed it the WMV file and in the Burn window I told it to make an ISO file, and where to put it.

It ground away for about three hours but when it finally finished there was no ISO file. Instead there were a couple of folders full of oddball files much like you see if you look too carefully at a DVD. I searched the drive for an ISO file in case Roxio had put it somewhere else but there was no such thing anywhere that I could find.

I started over thinking I must have somehow clicked the wrong button at some point. This time I decided to try putting the hypothetical ISO file on a DVD, in case that was what it really wanted to do. This time I stared intently at the box where I chose ISO image file just in case I had deluded myself the previous time; it definitely had a check box and was promising to make an ISO file. I then let it grind away into the night but in the morning the DVD contained the same collection of incomprehensibly-named files that the previous episode had place on the hard drive. I attempted to play the DVD on the computer and it just sat locked onto the default Roxio opening screen, which I had specifically told it not to use. Worse, it was humming some inane melody along with the pointless screen; God knows where it found that.

Here is a list of all that went wrong, at least all that I have discovered to date. I would be grateful if someone could spot something I did wrong or suggest how I could persuade it to do what Help says it will do:

Despite setting it to burn to an ISO image file, it made an incomprehensible file collection of its own choosing;
It used the stupid blue default opening screen (SBDOS) even though forbidden to do so;
The SBDOS was apparently the only thing on the resulting DVD;
If my movie was anywhere on the DVD or in the file collection, it had no intention of ever playing.

Thanks for any help!

Ted

[Jim_Hardin]

The "incomprehensible file collection" is your DVD, ready to burn.

It did not make an ISO because you did not tell it to!

You checked "Create Folder Set, and it did.

You should have checked "Image file", then it would have made an iso.



But all is not lost.

Likewise you think it made a Menu, but since you never burned it, you don't know… If you told it to create a New Project – DVD – No Menus, then that is what it did!

But all is not lost.

From here, open Disc Copier and click the Video Compilation tab.

Add Movies – point to the VIDEO_TS folder it created. Select all the movies it shows.

In the right pane, click Options and make sure that "Create a Main Menu" is not selected.

Burn you disc.

You can actually do the same thing with Disc Copier using an ISO file, so either way, is the right way! (how often does that happen! )

[doctorted]

Thanks, Jim, I will go through your instructions tonight.

I definitely checked the box you indicated, though- especially the second time! I was watching very intently to make sure I did not fat-finger something else. Let's see if the third time is the charm.

Ted

[Jim_Hardin]

Thanks, Jim, I will go through your instructions tonight.

I definitely checked the box you indicated, though- especially the second time! I was watching very intently to make sure I did not fat-finger something else. Let's see if the third time is the charm.

Ted

You have what you need now with the Folder set.

Also note the default in my picture was to the Root of C:\!!!

If yours landed there, C:\image.iso, you may have simply overlooked it???

For thing I do infrequently, I make detailed notes and keep them around for that rare next time. If I didn't, my wife would have thrown her mp3 player at me by now. – now that is some electronic garbage that could be simplified!

[doctorted]

You have what you need now with the Folder set.

Also note the default in my picture was to the Root of C:\!!!

If yours landed there, C:\image.iso, you may have simply overlooked it???

For thing I do infrequently, I make detailed notes and keep them around for that rare next time. If I didn't, my wife would have thrown her mp3 player at me by now. – now that is some electronic garbage that could be simplified!

Jim

Why yes, thank you, there IS and ISO file in the root of C:! You are right, I now have everything I need.

The second time I tried to burn the movie I sent the files to a DVD, which would not show anything but the stupid Roxio intro screen in Windows Media player, the default DVD player. On a whim I just tried it in a stand-alone DVD player. Interestingly, it works fine, and mercifully, without the default intro screen.

Thanks for all the help!

Ted

[myguggi]

Jim

Why yes, thank you, there IS and ISO file in the root of C:! You are right, I now have everything I need.

The second time I tried to burn the movie I sent the files to a DVD, which would not show anything but the stupid Roxio intro screen in Windows Media player, the default DVD player. On a whim I just tried it in a stand-alone DVD player. Interestingly, it works fine, and mercifully, without the default intro screen.

Thanks for all the help!

Ted

What Roxio intro screen are you referring to? I have never seen anything like that

[doctorted]

What Roxio intro screen are you referring to? I have never seen anything like that

Sorry it took a while to respond- I stopped reading this thread after the message that solved my problem.

The "screen" that I described in an earlier email would be familiar to regular users, and indeed when I last made a DVD (2005) I knew what it was. Once I actually played the movie I realized that was the menu screen. We had to click it to make the movie play!

My guess is you have seen it! I just did not remember what it was so did a poor job of explaining it. Thanks for the interest.

Ted

[Jim_Hardin]

This would be whatever default is selected.

Whenever you start a project and you don't want a menu, you must set the Project to DVD – No Menus.