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Burners making a difference in Quality??? I don’t think so...
Burners burn away a reflective layer by Laser ON or Laser OFF commands. Those ‘pits’ are read as 1’s or 0’s.
There is no provision to burn a 'half pit' or a 1 1/4 pit
Now this is not to say that a Burner or Media cannot make a difference. I cannot recommend more strongly that you only use Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden as media. Lasers do wear out, they are sort of a glorified light bulb…
Get some Quality brand RW's and test them. If one is on the edge, they are cheap enough to replace.
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The VCC trick is meant to cram more on a DVD than is really practical and keep the Quality as high as you can.
In MyDVD you burn a Folder set at HQ. (has to be folder since ISO will limit you to 2 hours length!)
VCC — Use the
Copy DVD tab and in the dropbox, browse to the Folder.
Tkx Jim, I appreciate all. I can't believe I didn't think of Verbatim after having gone through this already with a BR deal last month! I did buy and try Verbatim -R.
Firstly, the 'Plan B' we spoke of locked. Created the files just fine... a ROXIOPLASMA & VIDEO_TS folder(s). Then on to VCC where the copy seemed to start well. I came a few hours later to see the dreaded "XXX Send Error Report to MS". Tried again, same results.
So I tried MyDVD. I don't understand why but I can't "Fit to Disc". It says it's 4 minutes too long (???). I thought FTD would... whatever. So I tried LP. I must admit, the pic looks a bit better than with the TDKs.
This thread may need to be moved now to the audio section...?
But... one common issue between all discs and scenerios I've tried is audio skips. When playing the DVD, about every 6 minutes or so there'll be a sudden and total failure of audio, about 3 seconds. Then the audio returns and all's normal (for about 6 minutes).
I experienced this when I first purchased 2010 and the LG BR Burner messing with DVDs, but had forgotten about it when working the BR project and all was well. Back to a DVD project, the problem returns. I dunno... My card is Creative SB X-Fi. I looked for drivers online, there's only about a dozen. I don't have the energy to open the machine and see what model # the card is at this time
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I found this in my notes: >>You will have to Extract the audio from the Golden One and add it to the Music track. Expand your Video track and mute the audio. Same for the overlay track.<< I did not do this. I muted all OL audio and left Native alone, where it was. I moved nothing to Music. Could this be the cause of the skips? Just a thought.
Anyway, I'm at a loss now. I need to put this down awhile, got too close and not thinking as objectively as I need to...
Tkx again Jim!
Doug
This post has been edited by 09RKC: 10 November 2009 - 05:03 PM
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. The alternative is to realign each of the 2nd half's OLs again. Beyond that, I shut down all audio on those OLs in the beginning as there was too much disparity between the two sources. Since it's far more accurate to use audio to align these things (to me), I'd have to re-enable all audio, one OL at a time. that too is an enormous amt of work.
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