Vista support

[mmace]

With so many tens of millions of copies of Vista sold, is DVDit! Pro HD likely to support it fully any time soon?

The RC's have been around for years for software developers to make their software compatible.

 

"Roxio - Windows Vista Premier Launch Partner"

 

Adobe Encore CS3 is looking more and more enticing

[Squid5888]

I have worked as a business project manager working with IT projects for almost 25 years. I have built hundreds of PCs and have spent thousands of hours trying to get the latest and greatest technology to work.

 

Some years ago I realised I was fighting a losing battle. Eventually I decided to only use proven technology and spend my leisure time living and enjoying life.

 

Whilst I thoroughly applaud those with the appetite and talent to resolve bleeding edge type problems, may I offer this simple advice to budding videographers .....

 

Get a good quality high definition camera to capture your memories in glorious HD. Save the original footage in HD format but for now, be content to create DVDs rather than Blu-Ray disks. You'll be surprised with the quality of HD video rendered in SD.

 

Enjoy and share your DVD projects with friends/family etc. One day technology will catch up and you will be able to create Blu-Rays as easily as we create DVDs today.

 

Until then, save yourself the frustration and the time. Life is way, way too short.

 

Just my 2 cents worth.

[gaper1]

Not even all Microsoft products are Vista compatible tho especially the ones released before Vista launch... Although there are tens of millions of Vista users, the majority of the market is still on Windows XP... As soon as Vista gains more market, I'm sure there will be a Vista compatible version...

[Roddy]

Not even all Microsoft products are Vista compatible tho especially the ones released before Vista launch... Although there are tens of millions of Vista users, the majority of the market is still on Windows XP... As soon as Vista gains more market, I'm sure there will be a Vista compatible version...

If you walk into PC World (one of the largest sellers of PC`s in the country) you will find you cant buy machines with XP any more. For those of us who have upgraded to better machines to handle large file sizes needed for HD or HDV then unfortunately we have no option but for Vista. Vista supports 8GB memory whilst XP supports 4GB maximum and 1/2 gig of that is for the system.

 

Whilst we appreciate it takes time to understand the new Vista SDK and implement the changes required to make DVDIT Pro HD compatible with Vista we also wait with anticipation so we can continue to work with your software. I personally am suffering as I run DVDIT Pro HD for business reasons and am stuck until the software works wih Vista. Im trying many different ideas to try and get it to work correctly and will update this thread if I find a solution.

 

One annoying aspect for me is the *.gi image created for Blu-ray when other standard burning software uses *.iso and *.p2i for HD images. I would be eternally grateful if these formats could be included for Blu-ray image creation in future updates.

 

Is there a rough ETA for 6.5 or Vista compatible DVDIT Pro HD?

 

Regards

 

Rod

[SS Scott]

There are many, many people using DVDit Pro HD on Vista. Everything from 6.31 should be Vista compatible.

[Roddy]

There are many, many people using DVDit Pro HD on Vista. Everything from 6.31 should be Vista compatible.

 

As you have stated yes it did work on Vista (just finished the compile and playback) here are a few tips to help others that may have encountered the same difficulties as my self.

 

My project was with *.m2v mpeg files and sound was wav 44 khts. I used premiere to export the Mpeg and sound files separately.

 

My first hurdle was DVDIT Pro HD wrote the image BUT couldnt identify my BR RW blank, I got message saying no valid recordable media found.

 

I made sure i was up to date with firmware on the Super Multi Blue Drive, installed the upto date Sonic Record Engine (PXEngine) from Roxio site (linked in a post). But after a restart, still no Recordable media found even though definately had a blank 25GB format BR RW i the drive which was also working.

 

I decided to uninstal DVDIT Pro HD, then reinstall. This was the trick, obviously I had installed DVDIT first then later added the Blu-ray drive so after the reinstall it picked the drive up no probs.

 

My next hurdle was I created A BR RW image as the medium VBR settings and went to burn disk and select the *,gi image file (smallest one). I got a message saying this image is incompatible with this media, I scratched my head and tried creating a normal BR R image to write to my BR RW but again to no avail. I retried another BR RW image but still invalid image for this media.

 

I went to the forums and followed advice from a couple of posts, firtly I altered the DVDITPRO HD icon to run in XP service pack 2 compatibilty mode AND when I ran the program ticked the box at the bottom "Open DVD", I immediately noticed my file size on the BR image was reported as having much more space now? I went to burn image, selected BR RW (same as image) selected the small *.gi image file and hey prezto burned fine, I have watched the disk and no error plays fine!

 

Hope this info helps some of those who have run into probs. As alwas there seems to be a work around or a fix.

Many thanks Scott for your support again!

 

Regards

 

Roddy

[upirons]

I have worked as a business project manager working with IT projects for almost 25 years. I have built hundreds of PCs and have spent thousands of hours trying to get the latest and greatest technology to work.

 

Some years ago I realised I was fighting a losing battle. Eventually I decided to only use proven technology and spend my leisure time living and enjoying life.

 

Whilst I thoroughly applaud those with the appetite and talent to resolve bleeding edge type problems, may I offer this simple advice to budding videographers .....

 

Get a good quality high definition camera to capture your memories in glorious HD. Save the original footage in HD format but for now, be content to create DVDs rather than Blu-Ray disks. You'll be surprised with the quality of HD video rendered in SD.

 

Enjoy and share your DVD projects with friends/family etc. One day technology will catch up and you will be able to create Blu-Rays as easily as we create DVDs today.

 

Until then, save yourself the frustration and the time. Life is way, way too short.

 

Just my 2 cents worth.

 

 

Word up! I agree totally. I am at the point where I'm just going to skip the blu ray build and just copy the .m2ts files over to my PS3 and play them that way - and forget about the hassle with blu ray authoring for now.