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[joanieliz]

I have used previous versions of Roxio Creator in the past to make standard def. home movies and last year bought Roxio Creator Suite 2010.
For my 60th birthday last November I was given a Panasonic camcorder which records AVCHD onto a memory card, but I did not attempt to export them to our old computer at the time as our old XP PC was struggling.  After yet another breakdown we recently invested in a new PC and I successfully installed Roxio Creator Suite 10.  It was bliss transferring the film from the card to the new PC and I looked forward to making the films of our grandchildren on the new speedy computer.
But I found that Videowave had a tendency to close down when I imported the media from the folder where it had been captured and saved, though I did managed to import one and happily completed my first home movie, which was just 25 minutes long.  
It went through the burn process and said burn successful and there was something on the DVD.  But I was unable to show it on either our HD ready TV and oddly it would not play on our PC, though the new monitor is HD and the disc drive can play blu ray and HD.
I read this post and as neither we nor our relatives have Blu ray players I seem to be in a complete pickle.
It would seem that my version of Creator is not compatible with Windows 7, though the Windows Compatibility Centre does not make it clear that this only applies to purchases before January 2010, which I just learned from this forum!
If I bought Roxio Creator Suite 11 would this solve my problem do you think?  That being the need to convert the HD film to SD.  We naively thought that a DVD player and TV which could handle HD would suffice.  The conversion application in the 2010 did not help.  I really don’t need all the additional things in 2011, I am unlikely to ever upload to youtube or whatever.  All I want is to be able to edit and burn a film to a DVD which we and our family can watch on the TV.

System - OS - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor - Intel® Core™ i7 CPU  860  @ 2.80GHz, 2801 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) 64 bit
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce GT 230,  
Disc drive - hp BD  B  DH8E2L










OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 CPU         860  @ 2.80GHz, 2801 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

64 bit

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB

Name NVIDIA GeForce GT 230,  

Disc drive  Name hp BD  B  DH8E2L

[sknis]

joanieliz, on 04 October 2010 - 03:12 AM, said:

I have used previous versions of Roxio Creator in the past to make standard def. home movies and last year bought Roxio Creator Suite 2010.
For my 60th birthday last November I was given a Panasonic camcorder which records AVCHD onto a memory card, but I did not attempt to export them to our old computer at the time as our old XP PC was struggling.  After yet another breakdown we recently invested in a new PC and I successfully installed Roxio Creator Suite 10.  It was bliss transferring the film from the card to the new PC and I looked forward to making the films of our grandchildren on the new speedy computer.
But I found that Videowave had a tendency to close down when I imported the media from the folder where it had been captured and saved, though I did managed to import one and happily completed my first home movie, which was just 25 minutes long.  
It went through the burn process and said burn successful and there was something on the DVD.  But I was unable to show it on either our HD ready TV and oddly it would not play on our PC, though the new monitor is HD and the disc drive can play blu ray and HD.
I read this post and as neither we nor our relatives have Blu ray players I seem to be in a complete pickle.
It would seem that my version of Creator is not compatible with Windows 7, though the Windows Compatibility Centre does not make it clear that this only applies to purchases before January 2010, which I just learned from this forum!
If I bought Roxio Creator Suite 11 would this solve my problem do you think?  That being the need to convert the HD film to SD.  We naively thought that a DVD player and TV which could handle HD would suffice.  The conversion application in the 2010 did not help.  I really don’t need all the additional things in 2011, I am unlikely to ever upload to youtube or whatever.  All I want is to be able to edit and burn a film to a DVD which we and our family can watch on the TV.

System - OS - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Processor - Intel® Core™ i7 CPU  860  @ 2.80GHz, 2801 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) 64 bit
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce GT 230,  
Disc drive - hp BD  B  DH8E2L

Phew, there is a lot of information there but there is some confusion here.  Please do not drop the "20" in front of the name.  Roxio marketing screwed up the names so there is Easy Media Creator 10, OEM software Creator 10.x (with a 2 letter designation, and Creator 2010.  How about editing your post to refer to the correct version.

The next question is what did you burn?  Although you started with HiDef video, you could have burned a standard DVD, a blu-ray disc or an AVCHD disc.

You said that you are familiar with the program, did you use Create DVD to create the disc.  Did you burn it directly to disc or did you burn to an ISO file.  For that 25 minute video, how long did it take to encode?

If you did not buy the Pro version of Creator 2010, then you do need a plug in to play blu-ray discs.  Did you use a blu-ray blank?  You shoulod use the software that came with your blu-ray burner to play a blu-ray disc.  If you burned a AVCHD disc, then it should play on your computer but unless you have a blu-ray player that plays AVCHD discs connected to your computer, then it will not play.

Why are you capturing from the camcorder?  You should be able to just copy the video to your computer.

I probably missed something; please come back and let me know if you understood this disjointed replay.  What question did I not answer/ask?

[joanieliz]

Thanks for your response.  Oh dear.  I did not make myself clear, my poor use of terminology I think.  I meant that I did just copy the video the first time to the PC from the memory card, then imported it into Videowave from a folder on the hard drive.  After editing, I then went to My DVD with it and burned it from there. That is how I have created DVDs before.
The first time I tried to burn it I ticked the DVD icon but it showed an error whilst encoding 8004520C,I thought the reason for this was because it is a AVCHD film, so the second time I ticked that box to burn.  

I used an ordinary DVD blank disc as neither of the family have blu ray players.  I have to say I was surprised at the speed it completed as previously they take ages and I reset the power settings accordingly.  It was completed in about and hour and a quarter.  I burned it direct to disc.

Apologies for missing out the 20 part.  Yes its Roxio Creator 2010 I have.  Hope that helps.
Joanie

[sknis]

joanieliz, on 04 October 2010 - 04:43 AM, said:

Thanks for your response.  Oh dear.  I did not make myself clear, my poor use of terminology I think.  I meant that I did just copy the video the first time to the PC from the memory card, then imported it into Videowave from a folder on the hard drive.  After editing, I then went to My DVD with it and burned it from there. That is how I have created DVDs before.
The first time I tried to burn it I ticked the DVD icon but it showed an error whilst encoding 8004520C,I thought the reason for this was because it is a AVCHD film, so the second time I ticked that box to burn.  

I used an ordinary DVD blank disc as neither of the family have blu ray players.  I have to say I was surprised at the speed it completed as previously they take ages and I reset the power settings accordingly.  It was completed in about and hour and a quarter.  I burned it direct to disc.

Apologies for missing out the 20 part.  Yes its Roxio Creator 2010 I have.  Hope that helps.
Joanie

Ok, most of what you say sounds good.  You copied the files (what format were they?), opened them in Video Wave and editied them.  Did you remember to select 16 by 9 for wide screen?  Did you then save the project or did you output the video to a particular format?

Please clarify if you want a standard DVD which will play on anything or do you want a AVCHD disc? An AVCHD disc will play on your computer and many blu-ray players.  For the AVCHD disc, you use the standard DVD blank and your standard burner.  There is no need to use the blu-ray burner.

When you opened MyDVD (Create DVD) what did you chose for a format>  DVD, Blu-ray or AVCHD?

If you want an AVCHD disc,read this.  Darn, Roxio forum lost the images.

If you want a standard DVD, then when you go to burn, select to burn to an image file (ISO), select best quality,  When the burn finishes, use the "Copy ISo to Disc" application on the Home page to burn it to a disc.

Where is there a gap in what you want to/have been doing?

Happy Birthday for the last one and for the one coming up.  I've got a birthday coming up near Thanksgiving but I am several years older than you !    

[joanieliz]

Hello again,
The format I imported into Videowave was AVCHD.  Yes I edited it in 16:9.  I then saved the project to a folder.  The first time I tried to burn it through My DVD, I chose DVD and got an error message when encoding, the second time I chose AVCHD.

What I really want, given an AVCHD disc can’t be played on a most DVD players (I didn’t know this until I went into the forum today) is a standard DVD.  You mentioned Image file.  As it happens, I did ask for an image file to be saved and there is one in my folder.  An ISO of 2.64 GB, so that sounds about right I reckon.  I shall have a bash at burning that, it sounds a grand idea and may be the solution.

Oh you asked me to amend my post earlier to account for me missing out the 20 of 2010.  I couldnt work out how to do it, sorry, I wasn't ignoring your request.

Happy Birthday to you too, not sure when your Thanksgiving is, though I know its always in November (I am in England!).  I retired last year from work and it is wonderful!!!

Thankyou so much for your help.
Joanie

[Jim_Hardin]

I have never seen a DVD Player that can play an AVCHD format DVD…

Only Player that I have that will play an AVCHD on DVD are my Blu-ray Players.

So if you have a DVD Player that can play an AVCHD on a DVD, you will be the only one that is able to view it…

More likely, you are going to do like I do. Produce AVCHD on DVD for my Blu-ray Player relatives and produce DVD Movies for the ones that haven't made the switch yet…

Easy to do in MyDVD – One project will do both!

Without knowing what the error message was, we cannot offer any assist …

[joanieliz]

Hello,
The error message I got when I tried to burn the film to DVD in My DVD was during encoding, 8004520C.  
At least I understand more now.  I will have another try at burning a DVD.
thanks, Joanie

[joanieliz]

Hello,
I just had another go at burning to SD DVD. This time all the boxes were green ticked except the record menu and the error said  - error while encoding menu 8007000e.
I must be doing something wrong somewhere..
Joanie