Can't make an ISO? Help

[Harhash]

I've made a 24 GB project from several clips from HDV Sony HVR A1E PAL camcorder, the clips were rendered with sorenson squeeze as 1080 25p... the files were accepted by DVDit but mentioned they were not blu ray compliant... my first attempt was successful creating a hard disk folder and playable on powerdvd ultra however the menus were black although the sound was working... but otherwise all is fine... I discovered that I missed a chapter and a link in the hard disk folder so I returned to the project and added them... when I asked to produce an ISO image it went fine with all the encoding etc. till it came to making the ISO image it said I/O error then burning was terminated...??? this is very frustrating as every attempt takes about 9 hours on my opteron 165 system... by the way I could not find in DVDit project settings as choice for 1080 25p only 24 and 23.9 fps so I opted for 1080i 25 fps....

Any Ideas? I'm disperate....

[SS Scott]

not sure what the issue is. What version are you using? (on the Help > About screen). What is in the projects? I do have a few suggestions:

 

1) 1080p 25 is not a Blu-ray legal resolution. only 23.976 and 24. So, that will always be transcoded

2) your transcoded files are in a folder called Project in the location you have specified in your preferences dialog.

3) create your project, hopefully it works this time. if it does not, go into the transcodes folder and pull out all of your transcoded video. Import all of those transcodes into your project and use those instead of your original footage. This way the next time you try to go out to ISO, there will be no transcoding and your file building will take more like 15 minutes.

[Harhash]

It worked this time... God only knows how... all I did is repeat the attempt only with a blank disk in my sony blu ray burner (in the previous attempt it was empty) and left it overnight to wake up in the morning showing the message iso image created successfully....!!!

Now I'll extract my iso with winiso and see how is the compilation and may be I'll write a success story...

By the way my version is DVDit Pro HD 6.3 and the project is in the form of PAL HDV clips from my sony HVR-A1E and converted using sorenson squeeze 4.5.3 into 1080p 25fps *.m2v and *.m2a files... DVDit didn't recognize the *.M2a files so I renamed them into *.mp3 and it worked fine no synch issues....

THe only thing I want to check after extracting the iso is the menus as in the first attempt outputting into a hard disk folder the menus were black (any ideas why?) I'll check this time.... wish me luck....

[Artmos]

Hi!

 

I'm having the same problem. When I finish the autoring, put a BD on SONY BWU-100A drive, conceted as a SLAVE (EIDE), at close to the end comes the I/O ERROR and the BD is not recorded. What can this be?

 

Thanks.

 

Peter.

[Harhash]

It worked this time... God only knows how... all I did is repeat the attempt only with a blank disk in my sony blu ray burner (in the previous attempt it was empty) and left it overnight to wake up in the morning showing the message iso image created successfully....!!!

I think I narrowed the reason for the I/O error I had... I think now that DVDit pro HD needs all the temporary files as well as (better be I'm not sure) the source video files and the output ISO direcotory to be in the same partition as windows XP you are running your copy of DVDit... I tried importing sources from a different partition but it gave me the I/O error... I tried to output into a different partition and it told me that the file size exceeds the maximum of your partition make sure it's NTFS formatted.. and I'm dead sure it is NTFS formatted... I tried to make the temporary folder in a different partition and gave me the same file size message....

By the way.. winiso won't recognize blu ray iso images... for those who are interested....