Dvd Burn Freezes And Won't Finish

[AudreyP]

I am using Easy Media Creator 10 and trying to copy and compile my home videos that I took with my digital camera. I was able to create my DVD without any problems. When I was finished I hit the Burn button and selected the various options I wanted for my DVD. I placed a blank DVD in the drive and the process started without any problem. The first burn got 57% of the way done and then just froze. It was stuck there for hours, so I know it was frozen. I then selected cancel. It said it was in process of cancelling and then the cancel option just froze and didn't want to give me my DVD back. The second time, another blank DVD, the process only got to 6% and froze and repeated same cancel cycle. The third time I got to 42% and it froze up again with the same cancel problems. I checked my drives and it says they are the latest version I need. I'm not extremely computer savy, so please use very detailed instructions for helping me with this. I'm extremely frustrated. Is there another way to burn the DVD without using the burn button option? When I do my videowave productions I can't use the express burn option--it doesn't work. I have to go about it a different way.

Thanks for the help!

 

Audrey

[Syrallas]

I am using Easy Media Creator 10 and trying to copy and compile my home videos that I took with my digital camera. I was able to create my DVD without any problems. When I was finished I hit the Burn button and selected the various options I wanted for my DVD. I placed a blank DVD in the drive and the process started without any problem. The first burn got 57% of the way done and then just froze. It was stuck there for hours, so I know it was frozen. I then selected cancel. It said it was in process of cancelling and then the cancel option just froze and didn't want to give me my DVD back. The second time, another blank DVD, the process only got to 6% and froze and repeated same cancel cycle. The third time I got to 42% and it froze up again with the same cancel problems. I checked my drives and it says they are the latest version I need. I'm not extremely computer savy, so please use very detailed instructions for helping me with this. I'm extremely frustrated. Is there another way to burn the DVD without using the burn button option? When I do my videowave productions I can't use the express burn option--it doesn't work. I have to go about it a different way.

Thanks for the help!

 

Audrey

Have you tried creating an .iso image?

 

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What brand dvds are you using?

 

[AudreyP]

Just so you know, I'm not very computer savvy, so to my knowledge I have not created an iso image. However, the screen you show doesn't even pop up as an option for me. I'm in the copy and compile option and it just says burn and there is no screen that allows me to change the format into an iso format--to my knowlege. That just means there may be and I don't know. Could you help me? Can you explain why an iso image would help?

I am using maxell DVDs which I used on other roxio projects and have not had problems with them before. However, I've now wasted 4 of them trying to get this to work.

I'm willing to try whatever. Let me know if you need further info. Thanks for taking the time.

 

Audrey

[Jim_Hardin]

Just so you know, I'm not very computer savvy, so to my knowledge I have not created an iso image. However, the screen you show doesn't even pop up as an option for me. I'm in the copy and compile option and it just says burn and there is no screen that allows me to change the format into an iso format--to my knowlege. That just means there may be and I don't know. Could you help me? Can you explain why an iso image would help?

I am using maxell DVDs which I used on other roxio projects and have not had problems with them before. However, I've now wasted 4 of them trying to get this to work.

I'm willing to try whatever. Let me know if you need further info. Thanks for taking the time.

 

Audrey

The very same options exists there too… Click on Burn.

 

 

You have been doing this long enough to know that you keep an RW disc or 2 around and use them when you have trouble.

 

You should have also noticed that MyDVD is where you do the final Authoring/Burning of your DVDs. You don't get computer savy until you learn to use the programs

 

[Syrallas]

Just so you know, I'm not very computer savvy, so to my knowledge I have not created an iso image. However, the screen you show doesn't even pop up as an option for me. I'm in the copy and compile option and it just says burn and there is no screen that allows me to change the format into an iso format--to my knowlege. That just means there may be and I don't know. Could you help me? Can you explain why an iso image would help?

I am using maxell DVDs which I used on other roxio projects and have not had problems with them before. However, I've now wasted 4 of them trying to get this to work.

I'm willing to try whatever. Let me know if you need further info. Thanks for taking the time.

 

Audrey

 

To add to what Jim said, creating an iso is helpful because if your burn goes bad, you can just re-burn that iso image onto another disc.

 

Speaking of discs, in addition to Jim's sage advice to get some rws for trial and error, please steer away from Maxell, Memorex and store brand, and consider Verbatim discs.

[AudreyP]

So, I selected the option to create an iso file and it didn't help at all. I stuck in another DVD and it got to the typical 10% and froze again. Then, I deleted half of the videos I was trying to burn to the DVD and tried again and it got up to 16% and froze again. I am sooo frustrated at not being able to figure this out. My computer can't even create an iso file or burn these movies onto a DVD. Any more suggestions?

I have 43 home videos from my digital camera. Most of them are about 30 seconds long. They were created with a Kodak digital camera that is only 4 megapixels--hardly anything. The videos are on my external WD harddrive and I copied them to the Roxio video program. When I start the burn process, I can hear the computer making noises and acting like it's running and then after a certain amount of time--only a few minutes, it just stops. When I hit cancel after waiting for more progress (waited at least 20 minutes) it says to wait while it cancells and even then it's not doing anything and I have to open the task manager and shut the whole thing down every time. I hope all these details might help to solve this.

[bimicher]

So, I selected the option to create an iso file and it didn't help at all. I stuck in another DVD and it got to the typical 10% and froze again. Then, I deleted half of the videos I was trying to burn to the DVD and tried again and it got up to 16% and froze again. I am sooo frustrated at not being able to figure this out. My computer can't even create an iso file or burn these movies onto a DVD. Any more suggestions?

I have 43 home videos from my digital camera. Most of them are about 30 seconds long. They were created with a Kodak digital camera that is only 4 megapixels--hardly anything. The videos are on my external WD harddrive and I copied them to the Roxio video program. When I start the burn process, I can hear the computer making noises and acting like it's running and then after a certain amount of time--only a few minutes, it just stops. When I hit cancel after waiting for more progress (waited at least 20 minutes) it says to wait while it cancells and even then it's not doing anything and I have to open the task manager and shut the whole thing down every time. I hope all these details might help to solve this.

 

Try this ...

Launch Videowave and add lets say 5 movies. THen us Output and output to DVD, best quality format. If that works add another 5 movies and output. See if you can output all the movies to the DVD quality mpeg. If not then there is a problem with those Kodak files. What format are they?