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[ibtaits]

So far this has been my opinion. I've wasted a 30 pack of DVD-R's trying to get one to work. Not even 1 works.
I believe the info or pics are on the DVD's but not a one will open to view. I've even gone out and asked others to try to open them on their machines, hoping they may have a different way of doing things...no luck there either.
Each of these 30 DVD's took the Media Creator 8 program 4 hours to do or burn (I use the term "burn" loosely, since they do not work.).  All looked good in the pgm preview, but not even one would open or could I view even what files are there. I can only see that the discs are full. After burning I tried to run them and only get messages to the effect that there is no disc in the drive. I tried burning on two different DVD burners, one external, one internal.  As another test I get a simmular message when I try to run these  "burned" disc in a burner drive. Just to see what woud happen, nothing.

Needed is another option for adding more files or info from another source.....Burn another....if so how many....and then another to finalize the disc or what ever you may call it so it is there and can be readily viewed from that disc just burned. There is no option for this or to burn another like it, that I'm able to find anywhere. Not from a temp file from the pgm. Even if it's a re-rightable disc. So the user knows the info wanted is there.

If I'm NOT doing something correctly, Please inform me.  BTW, I printed out the help file for what I did and believe I did as stated.  But some link is missing somewhere.
Thank you in advance for what ever, pos or neg, reply I get in return.

[tbrewst]

Are you trying to create a slideshow or just a data disc with the pictures on it?If its a slide show then use Videowave or the Slideshow Assistant.If it's just the pics on a disc use Creator Classic.I used the Slideshow Assistant because I had never tried before and it came out just fine.If this is the case then they have to be viewed with a DVD player.If it's just a data disc then you should be able to look at them with Explorer.As far as the time it takes,from what I just did,it seems like it will take some time to encode depending on how may pics you add to your project.
Someone with more experience creating these can surely shed more light on this.

[grandpabruce]

In addition to what Terry said, what brand of media are you using?  Also, list your system specs.

What program did you use to burn the DVD's.  I hope you didn't waste time using Drag to Disc, because you can't burn a video DVD with that program.  The disc won't work in any DVD player.

[tbrewst]

Hope I didn't give bad info Bruce.There's definately much more experienced folks at this out there than I am.

[grandpabruce]

tbrewst, on Aug 12 2006, 01:05 PM, said:

Hope I didn't give bad info Bruce.There's definately much more experienced folks at this out there than I am.

You did not give bad information at all, Terry.  And you know more about EMC 8 than I do.  My use of it is limited.  I still prefer v 7.5 for video work.

Edited by grandpabruce, 12 August 2006 - 01:52 PM.

[T.O.T.G.]

To the original poster, one thing to check is to see if you had the "Read Only Disc" option checked.  If that option was not checked, then you would be trying to create multisession discs...

Make sure that option is checked off when you don't want to write anything else to the disc, and let us know if that solves the problem.

[d_deweywright]

ibtaits, on Aug 12 2006, 09:20 AM, said:

If I'm NOT doing something correctly, Please inform me.  BTW, I printed out the help file for what I did and believe I did as stated.  But some link is missing somewhere.
Thank you in advance for what ever, pos or neg, reply I get in return.

To clarify some of the other responses you've received, we can't really tell you if you're not doing something correctly, because you didn't tell us what you did.  You mentioned pictures, adding files, playing the disc... all indicate different types of discs.

About all we can clearly determine is that you were writing to some form of DVD media.

So, are you trying to create a disc that is playable on a standalone DVD player?  If so, then you'll want to start by creating your project in VideoWave.  Import that project into MyDVD to create your menus (if desired) then write that to a .ISO file and burn it using Disc Copier.

Or are you trying to create a Data DVD with a bunch of image files on it?  If so, start Creator Classic, add all your image files in whatever directory structure you want, and burn that.  It will only be readable on a computer.  (Well, a few standalone DVD players will display .JPG files, but don't count on it.)

Tell us what type of files you're starting with, still photos, video files, etc. and what type of disc you're trying to create.  Also, tell us what parts of the EMC 8 suite you've tried.

A click-by-click description of what you've tried would not be too detailed, because it's hard for us to guess what you've done, or want to do.

Let us know!

Edited by d_deweywright, 14 August 2006 - 09:25 AM.