no video

[cedarchoper58]

I have roxio 9.0 when I make a dvd I preview it and all is good. Then I burn it and the menue is there on the burned dvd but when i play the movies in the menue there is sound but no video. I made a dvd with my computers windows dvd movie maker and it burned and played just fine. But with Roxio there is only the audio. i have been working on this for days and have tried all different DVD formats (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW) with all the same results no video with roxio but video with windows dvd movie maker can you please help.thanks

[gi7omy]

Please - do NOT post all over the board

[Larry]

Update the drivers for your video card.

[cedarchoper58]

I discovered that I had imported my video from my camera to the computer in wmv format because it took only 2gig a bytes per hour on my hard drive and i reimported it in avi format and it fixed the problem but avi format is 13gb per hour and is huge on my hard drive. is there any way to convert the wmv format to avi so that it will still be a small file? or is there any way to make roxio use wmv format? thanks

[grandpabruce]

I discovered that I had imported my video from my camera to the computer in wmv format because it took only 2gig a bytes per hour on my hard drive and i reimported it in avi format and it fixed the problem but avi format is 13gb per hour and is huge on my hard drive. is there any way to convert the wmv format to avi so that it will still be a small file? or is there any way to make roxio use wmv format? thanks

 

If you really want the best quality for making video DVD's, then you capture the files as .avi, like you found out. I have to assume you were connected via firewire, which is good.

 

Now, the files will be huge, so get a huge hard drive. You will be glad you did, 20 years down the road, when you are watching those videos, from the past.

[cedarchoper58]

If you really want the best quality for making video DVD's, then you capture the files as .avi, like you found out. I have to assume you were connected via firewire, which is good.

 

Now, the files will be huge, so get a huge hard drive. You will be glad you did, 20 years down the road, when you are watching those videos, from the past.

 

thanks its not so much the hard drive as i can delet them off if i want and keep the dvd's and the tapes from my camcorder. It is that a 4.7 gig dvd will only hold about 20 min of material at a rate of 13gb per hour. so that is why i want to convert. what do you think and how could i convert? thanks

[james_hardin]

thanks its not so much the hard drive as i can delet them off if i want and keep the dvd's and the tapes from my camcorder. It is that a 4.7 gig dvd will only hold about 20 min of material at a rate of 13gb per hour. so that is why i want to convert. what do you think and how could i convert? thanks

You can import in mpeg2 but there may be problems…

 

I don't understand what you think the relevance of the capacity of a DVD is to an AVI file??? Since your HD is your 'work area' a DVD does not enter the picture until you burn…

[grandpabruce]

thanks its not so much the hard drive as i can delet them off if i want and keep the dvd's and the tapes from my camcorder. It is that a 4.7 gig dvd will only hold about 20 min of material at a rate of 13gb per hour. so that is why i want to convert. what do you think and how could i convert? thanks

 

What I do is capture in 10-15 minute segments. This has been recommended many times. It seems that capturing in smaller segments reduces audio/video sync problems that some people have experienced.

 

It also gives you smaller files sizes that will fit on a 4.7GB DVD, as data. For burning, as a DVD movie, size isn't what matters. Time does. You will get 1 hour of video, on a standard DVD, at best quality.