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[ReedB]

I am using Creator 2009. Have created productions with Videowave. Added them to menu in MyDVD.
They preview just fine, no issues. However when I go to burn a DVD, the encoding preview shows
a few of the frames encoding as blank, no picture. Ive tryed everything i can think of up to and including removing the picture that was burning as blank completely from the movie. The burn just encoded a different picture as blank (one it encoded fine before). Anybody run into this ? It really sucks as i can not
burn a good DVD. By the way I am getting no errors of any kind and the burn, if i let it go does complete
and create a DVD with blank diaplays in the 'movie". The pictures, by the way, are all JPG's.

[myguggi]

I am using Creator 2009. Have created productions with Videowave. Added them to menu in MyDVD.
They preview just fine, no issues. However when I go to burn a DVD, the encoding preview shows
a few of the frames encoding as blank, no picture. Ive tryed everything i can think of up to and including removing the picture that was burning as blank completely from the movie. The burn just encoded a different picture as blank (one it encoded fine before). Anybody run into this ? It really sucks as i can not
burn a good DVD. By the way I am getting no errors of any kind and the burn, if i let it go does complete
and create a DVD with blank diaplays in the 'movie". The pictures, by the way, are all JPG's.

Are you using any transitions or special effects in your project? Depending on your video card and settings some of these will not be rendered correctly if at all. Go to Tools/Options and set the render mode to software if now at hardware or try the reverse.

You can also try to first "burn" to a folder set or iso image file and then use Video Copy &Convert to burn those to a DVD.

[ReedB]

Well guys this makes zero sense to me, but I changed the menu style in MYDVD, readded my 'movies'
and everything encoded and burnt just fine. I see no earthly reason why this should make any difference,
but it proves to me once again that Creator 2009 is a pretty quirky product.

[myguggi]

Well guys this makes zero sense to me, but I changed the menu style in MYDVD, readded my 'movies'
and everything encoded and burnt just fine. I see no earthly reason why this should make any difference,
but it proves to me once again that Creator 2009 is a pretty quirky product.

What menu style did you use the first time and which one now?

I don't see how this proves "that Creator 2009 is a pretty quirky product." Unless you do the identical original burn again under the same conditions etc, it means nothing.

[grandpabruce]

Well guys this makes zero sense to me, but I changed the menu style in MYDVD, readded my 'movies'
and everything encoded and burnt just fine. I see no earthly reason why this should make any difference,
but it proves to me once again that Creator 2009 is a pretty quirky product.

It actually smacks of user error to me.  

[ReedB]

What menu style did you use the first time and which one now?

I don't see how this proves "that Creator 2009 is a pretty quirky product." Unless you do the identical original burn again under the same conditions etc, it means nothing.

The title of the menu i first used is 'Around The World' the menu I used that worked fine is 'Snowman'.
When I use the same movie productions in two different product canned menus and get two different
results, I call that quirky, maybe Im using the wrong term.

It actually smacks of user error to me.  

I really don't get the user error comment. I used the exact same movie productions in two different
canned product menus and got two different results. All I did as a user was add the movies and click burn. Smacks of a product issue to me.

[Jim_Hardin]

ReedB: 2 things are known to cause this…

In VideoWave, deleting a picture without deleting the transition. It warns of this when you click delete and is pretty obvious in Storyboard view. (probably not your problem)

The only other one manifests itself with random black pictures. You delete one and it still happens some other place. – This is a Video Card issue.

For that you should be able to switch to Tools – Options – Render – Software before you load the project.

It should do the trick and you can click on each picture Storyline to preview it.

Note: if you used 3D transitions, switching to Software will not allow them to work.

Give it a try and see what happens.

[ReedB]

ReedB: 2 things are known to cause this…

In VideoWave, deleting a picture without deleting the transition. It warns of this when you click delete and is pretty obvious in Storyboard view. (probably not your problem)

The only other one manifests itself with random black pictures. You delete one and it still happens some other place. – This is a Video Card issue.

For that you should be able to switch to Tools – Options – Render – Software before you load the project.

It should do the trick and you can click on each picture Storyline to preview it.

Note: if you used 3D transitions, switching to Software will not allow them to work.

Give it a try and see what happens.

Thanks for the input. When in Vediowave I do delete transitions along with any pic. I am not using 3D transitions so thanks for Tools suggestion. I agree there may be some Video Card involvment here. If I run into this again I'll try your settings idea. I am however still left confused when the created movies preview
ok (no blanks), but a burn attempt with one menu style yeilds some blanks and a burn of the very same movies in another style works fine without me changing anything except the style. Maybe the style i had problems in is somehow stressing my video card more. By the way its an INTEL card with 128MB memory.

[Jim_Hardin]

Intel doesn’t really make video cards – they make chip!

Software render will hopefully work, bit it is looking more like your PC is not up to the task…

But get yourself a disc or 2 of good RW media, like Verbatim, so you can do testing and post back with the results.