Hello everyone. I am trying to burn a movie to a DVD disc using Popcorn 3. It told me i had to encode to PAL, so i did which took 4 hours or so. And it was PREPARING. . to burn, and it didn't move for awhile. so i closed it. My first question is; Is there a way to downsize the time it takes to Encode? And am i doing something wrong? The way i did it was i went to DVD video under DVD dragged 2 files there, and hit record. Is there something else im supposed to do?
Thanks in advance.
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Movie Burning, gone wrong?
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Frostey
, Aug 03 2009 05:41 PM
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Posted 03 August 2009 - 07:15 PM
What probably happened is the optical drive went to sleep waiting for the encoding to finish and Popcorn couldn't wake it back up.
I'm presuming you live where the format needs to be PAL. However, there are PAL DVD players that can play NTSC video DVDs. My understanding is that most of them do. You can tell if your source video is PAL or NTSC by looking at the description for the frame rate. If it is 25 fps it is PAL. Otherwise it is NTSC.
You can burn an NTSC DVD from those NTSC video files if you go to Popcorn Preferences and change your setting from PAL to NTSC.
To avoid the problem with the drive hanging up, choose Save as Disc Image instead of clicking the burn button to start your encoding process. When that is finished use the Image File setting to select the resulting .toast file and burn your DVD from that.
I'm presuming you live where the format needs to be PAL. However, there are PAL DVD players that can play NTSC video DVDs. My understanding is that most of them do. You can tell if your source video is PAL or NTSC by looking at the description for the frame rate. If it is 25 fps it is PAL. Otherwise it is NTSC.
You can burn an NTSC DVD from those NTSC video files if you go to Popcorn Preferences and change your setting from PAL to NTSC.
To avoid the problem with the drive hanging up, choose Save as Disc Image instead of clicking the burn button to start your encoding process. When that is finished use the Image File setting to select the resulting .toast file and burn your DVD from that.
I'm just a fellow Toast-user so please don't blame Roxio for any misguidance I may provide. And do let me know if your issue gets solved. Cheers from Eugene, Oregon!
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Posted 03 August 2009 - 07:17 PM
QUOTE (tsantee @ Aug 3 2009, 08:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What probably happened is the optical drive went to sleep waiting for the encoding to finish and Popcorn couldn't wake it back up.
I'm presuming you live where the format needs to be PAL. However, there are PAL DVD players that can play NTSC video DVDs. My understanding is that most of them do. You can tell if your source video is PAL or NTSC by looking at the description for the frame rate. If it is 25 fps it is PAL. Otherwise it is NTSC.
You can burn an NTSC DVD from those NTSC video files if you go to Popcorn Preferences and change your setting from PAL to NTSC.
To avoid the problem with the drive hanging up, choose Save as Disc Image instead of clicking the burn button to start your encoding process. When that is finished use the Image File setting to select the resulting .toast file and burn your DVD from that.
I'm presuming you live where the format needs to be PAL. However, there are PAL DVD players that can play NTSC video DVDs. My understanding is that most of them do. You can tell if your source video is PAL or NTSC by looking at the description for the frame rate. If it is 25 fps it is PAL. Otherwise it is NTSC.
You can burn an NTSC DVD from those NTSC video files if you go to Popcorn Preferences and change your setting from PAL to NTSC.
To avoid the problem with the drive hanging up, choose Save as Disc Image instead of clicking the burn button to start your encoding process. When that is finished use the Image File setting to select the resulting .toast file and burn your DVD from that.
Yeah, i also have Toast Titanium. I used that and made it Disk Image, i tried burning it like that using Popcorn but it just stayed at Preparing forever. 5 mins+. I dont know why. Should i try updating the program? dont think i've done that yet.
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Posted 04 August 2009 - 05:55 AM
QUOTE (Frostey @ Aug 3 2009, 08:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah, i also have Toast Titanium. I used that and made it Disk Image, i tried burning it like that using Popcorn but it just stayed at Preparing forever. 5 mins+. I dont know why. Should i try updating the program? dont think i've done that yet.
By all means update to the most recent version of Popcorn. Was Toast able to burn the disc image?
I'm just a fellow Toast-user so please don't blame Roxio for any misguidance I may provide. And do let me know if your issue gets solved. Cheers from Eugene, Oregon!
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Posted 04 August 2009 - 08:50 AM
Yeah, it burned it to the disk image. And i used Disco (another burning program) to burn it and it did it in no time. Wondering why Popcorn isn't doing so. Im updating everything right now - hopefully that will fix it. Ill get back to you once its done =].
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