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[tgause]

Hello All,

I recently purchased EMC8 in order to "smoothly" burn a WMM project to DVD.  I have now been at it for over 35 hours.  HELP!  Summary:

a) Project created in WMM.  Length of project is approximately one hour and was saved as a movie (DV-AVI file) on my computer's hard drive successfully.

WMM movie was then imported into EMC8 successfully.  Simple menu was made. And this all was saved successfully as a project using EMC8.  Play is fine at this point.  EMC8 indicates that size of project is around 4.3, leaving a significant room on my 4.7 blank DVD.

c) At this point, I attempt to burn my project to the DVD, and without fail, I get a message saying "Destination drive doesn't have enough space".  This has been driving me CRAZY, (and if I can't get this to work, I'm returning EMC8 and asking for a refund.)

To see if this is really a size issue, I've cut the original WMM movie done to as little as twenty minutes and still have gotten the same message in EMC8.

Any suggestion from the experts out there would be greatly appreciated.

tg

[sknis]

How much free and unfraggmented space do you have on your "c" drive or the drive where the temporary files are stored?  You might want to do a clean up of all tmp and temp files and a full defragmentation.  The program does all the encoding on the hard drive before it is burned to the disc.

tgause, on Jul 10 2006, 02:04 PM, said:

Hello All,
I recently purchased EMC8 in order to "smoothly" burn a WMM project to DVD. I have now been at it for over 35 hours. HELP! Summary: a) Project created in WMM. Length of project is approximately one hour and was saved as a movie (DV-AVI file) on my computer's hard drive successfully.
WMM movie was then imported into EMC8 successfully. Simple menu was made. And this all was saved successfully as a project using EMC8. Play is fine at this point. EMC8 indicates that size of project is around 4.3, leaving a significant room on my 4.7 blank DVD.
c) At this point, I attempt to burn my project to the DVD, and without fail, I get a message saying "Destination drive doesn't have enough space". This has been driving me CRAZY, (and if I can't get this to work, I'm returning EMC8 and asking for a refund.)
To see if this is really a size issue, I've cut the original WMM movie done to as little as twenty minutes and still have gotten the same message in EMC8.

Any suggestion from the experts out there would be greatly appreciated.

tg

[tgause]

I did that this weekend, but I'll try it again.  I'm not at my computer right now, but if I remember correctly, my C: drive is about 75% occuppied.  However, my D: drive is only about 25% occupied.  Is there a way to change the temporary drive that EMC8 uses?  I looked for a way to do this last night and was unsuccesful.
tg

[sknis]

tgause, on Jul 10 2006, 02:44 PM, said:

I did that this weekend, but I'll try it again. I'm not at my computer right now, but if I remember correctly, my C: drive is about 75% occuppied. However, my D: drive is only about 25% occupied. Is there a way to change the temporary drive that EMC8 uses? I looked for a way to do this last night and was unsuccesful.
tg

Yes, there are other posts on how to do it.  Do a search for your issue "destination...."  You do it in Windows.

[DVDRom]

Hello
I have the Same problem get the message " Destination Drive doesn't have enough space"
What I have done tried so far.

Moved location of Temp file to D:
Tried different Types of Media ( Different brands eg Verbatim Sony ect, Formats eg DVD+R DVD-R DVD +rw) Different DVD Burners 2 internals Model DHW1160 and HP model (don't know the model number) and  1 External SONY DVD +-RW .
Un installed and re-installed Roxio EMC8, Carried out repair installs ect.
Currently the only way I can burn a DVD is to go through the process and save onto the Local Drive as an iso image from within EMC8 then burn the DVD from that which not Ideal.

I'll talk you through the process  Record a Movie on a Sony Handycam ( EMC8 will not import directly from the camera as it should) save the Movie to the hard drive, open EMC8 DVD creator create new movie, import from file location, preveiw  all runs fine, press burn select burn to disk get " Destination Drive doesn't have enough space" select burn to file get the Video_tsu??? that saves fine  try burn that to disk  get the same error  " Destination Drive doesn't have enough space" so try burn to image.iso  thats works fine. Open CD/DVD Creator Classic burn from image select image that works a treat.

These movie are only about 1 gig in size when saved onto the PC  thats both saved either wm format and avi how they measure over 4 gig when burning only leaving about 65 megs available i don't know why  but that is having the setting set at fit to disk selected, I have not tried playing around with those settings as yet
Cheers
Ron
ps  Roxio Customer service isn't much help  have had an open ticket on this complaint for over 48hours and not had a responce apart from the initial webticket.

[John at Roxio]

DVDRom, on Jul 11 2006, 11:29 PM, said:

Currently the only way I can burn a DVD is to go through the process and save onto the Local Drive as an iso image from within EMC8 then burn the DVD from that which not Ideal.

Actually I would call that "The best possible way to do it".  Thats how professional studios do it, and the Gurus on these forums recommend it all the time as the best way to get things done.

Also customer service has a bit of a backlog right now.  They are just a little more swamped then we had anticipated.  For now, these forums are the fastest way to get help.

[myguggi]

DVDRom, on Jul 12 2006, 01:29 AM, said:

Hello
I have the Same problem get the message " Destination Drive doesn't have enough space"
What I have done tried so far.

Moved location of Temp file to D:
Tried different Types of Media ( Different brands eg Verbatim Sony ect, Formats eg DVD+R DVD-R DVD +rw) Different DVD Burners 2 internals Model DHW1160 and HP model (don't know the model number) and 1 External SONY DVD +-RW .
Un installed and re-installed Roxio EMC8, Carried out repair installs ect.
Currently the only way I can burn a DVD is to go through the process and save onto the Local Drive as an iso image from within EMC8 then burn the DVD from that which not Ideal.

I'll talk you through the process Record a Movie on a Sony Handycam ( EMC8 will not import directly from the camera as it should) save the Movie to the hard drive, open EMC8 DVD creator create new movie, import from file location, preveiw all runs fine, press burn select burn to disk get " Destination Drive doesn't have enough space" select burn to file get the Video_tsu??? that saves fine try burn that to disk get the same error " Destination Drive doesn't have enough space" so try burn to image.iso thats works fine. Open CD/DVD Creator Classic burn from image select image that works a treat.

These movie are only about 1 gig in size when saved onto the PC thats both saved either wm format and avi how they measure over 4 gig when burning only leaving about 65 megs available i don't know why but that is having the setting set at fit to disk selected, I have not tried playing around with those settings as yet
Cheers
Ron
ps Roxio Customer service isn't much help have had an open ticket on this complaint for over 48hours and not had a responce apart from the initial webticket.

File size means nothing when burning to DVDs, its the timelength of the video that is important. At best quality, you will only get 60 minutes on a DVD. Burning first to a iso file and then using  DiscCopier to burn the iso to DVD will allow you put more then 60 minutes on a DVD with slightly reduced quality depending on the time length of the video.

Are you capturing from Sony DVD handycam or a dv handicam? I have no problem capturing from my Sony digital DV handicam but of course you have to use a firewire connection.

Edited by myguggi, 12 July 2006 - 07:02 AM.