8004520C Error While Encoding Movie 1

[mwhitner]

I recently purchased a Canon VIXIA HFR42 HD digital camcorder. I am recording in AVCHD/FXP format. I have Roxio Creator Pro 2011 running on a Dell XPS-8300, i7-2600 64-bit processor, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, AMD Radeon HD6670 graphics card with 2GB onboard RAM and the latest released driver installed and DirectX 11. My HDD is scheduled to be defragmented on a weekly basis and reports 0% fragmented. I create a new MyDVD, no-menus DVD target project and add about a dozen mts movies directly copied from the camera as a single movie. When I attempt to burn the DVD (either an ISO image or DVD folders) within a few seconds I get the error in the topic title. If I take that same set of mts files into a VideoWave project and export the project to a AVCHD (MP4) file and then use that MP4 file in MyDVD I can burn the DVD (ISO file and DVD folders). What am I missing? Why can't MyDVD handle the movie files without the intermediate step of converting them into a single MP4 file? Sorry for the lack of formatting in this post but, for whatever reason this tool is not allowing me to even insert line breaks.

[Jim_Hardin]

They work fine on mine but I set my Vixia to record in FXP mode...

 

Try setting it FXP and make some test files to see if that works for you

 

PS: Haven't had any issues with Creator 2012 or NXT. There I can use the MXP setting without a glitch.

[mwhitner]

Thank you for the reply! as I stated in the original post, "I am recording in AVCHD/FXP format."

[Jim_Hardin]

Sorry then, don't know what to tell you

[mwhitner]

Thank you again for taking the time to reply to my posts!

[Jim_Hardin]

Couple of other things that should help this...

1. Under Tools - Options - Render, set it to Software.
   
2. You may have to pre-render your clips in VideoWave BEFORE you use them in MyDVD.
   

Try these and let me know

[mwhitner]

Once again, thank you for your response.

 

Item #1 made no difference. It sill produced the error while encoding.

 

I'm not exactly sure what #2 (pre-render) means. If you are referring to processing the files in VideoWave first that's what I am trying to skip because that is just one more operation to perform and doubles the processing time. I'm not editing of these files so I shouldn't have to process these files in VideoWave before they can be used in MyDVD.

 

I am currently exporting the individual clips as a single MP4 file from VideoWave and using that MP4 in MyDVD without incident. MyDVD claims to support these MTS files but, converting in VideoWave is a work around. As I said before having to pre-process the files in VideoWave doubles the processing time from downloading to DVD production since the same video has to be encoded by VideoWave and then by MyDVD.

[Jim_Hardin]

 

I'm not exactly sure what #2 (pre-render) means. If you are referring to processing the files in VideoWave first that's what I am trying to skip because that is just one more operation to perform and doubles the processing time. I'm not editing of these files so I shouldn't have to process these files in VideoWave before they can be used in MyDVD.

 

I am currently exporting the individual clips as a single MP4 file from VideoWave and using that MP4 in MyDVD without incident. MyDVD claims to support these MTS files but, converting in VideoWave is a work around. As I said before having to pre-process the files in VideoWave doubles the processing time from downloading to DVD production since the same video has to be encoded by VideoWave and then by MyDVD.

 

That is what pre-rendering is

 

Don't trip over your attitude or expectations... You want this to work or just keep failing?

 

Besides, the first step is to find What Works, then go form there

 

And that IS the normal work flow with many advantages that you aren't even aware of

[mwhitner]

Sorry, no attitude was intended however, using non-verbal communications tone of the message can be lost.

 

I had the pre-rendering work around already in place when I opened this thread. Sorry I didn't realize that I had already been pre-rendering (I'm getting the jargon down). Pre-rendering adds about 60 - 90 minutes of processing. I can live with the work around if I must but, I was hoping that there was some setting that could be twiddled in MyDVD or patch applied to allow it to process the MTS files directly.

[sknis]

Assume that you are going to make a DVD video disc. If you pre-render to mpg2 for DVD (best quality) and then keep the amount of video on the DVD close to one hour, it will not be re-rendered. You will get a gray box that completes quickly. The only rendering in MyDVD would be for the menu. The burning will go fairly quickly.

[Jim_Hardin]

Sorry, no attitude was intended however, using non-verbal communications tone of the message can be lost.

 

I had the pre-rendering work around already in place when I opened this thread. Sorry I didn't realize that I had already been pre-rendering (I'm getting the jargon down). Pre-rendering adds about 60 - 90 minutes of processing. I can live with the work around if I must but, I was hoping that there was some setting that could be twiddled in MyDVD or patch applied to allow it to process the MTS files directly.

 

So it Works when pre-rendered and fail if you don't??? (by the way I really just made up that word, you won't find it in a dictionary )

 

IF they work when you pre-render, the next thing try is to edit a little in VideoWave and save a Project file (dmsm)

 

Then close VW, Open MyDVD and add the Project file (dmsm) rather than the actual movie!

 

See if that yields any improvement...

 

Doing a Proper Repair will make sure that any corruption in the program will be cleared out

 

First thing to do is to turn off your Anti Virus, Firewalls, Registry Cleaners, etc.

 

Now insert your Roxio Disc.

 

Be sure you accept the offer to Check for Updates (this is for Roxio, not Windows)

 

When you reach the screen where

Repair

is offered, choose that!

 

When the Repair competes, turn your AV & Firewall back on and reboot.

[mwhitner]

That is correct. It works fine when I pre-render the movies into a single file.

 

I will save that project next time and insert the project and see if that helps.

 

I'll try the repair also if that doesn't work.

 

Once again, thank you!

[Jim_Hardin]

Keep us updated!

 

I am hoping that you can have success by using the Project File from VW

[mwhitner]

Finally had an opportunity to try your suggestion. I added multiple MTS files into VideoWave and saved the production. No edits whatsoever. I opened MyDVD and selected the saved VideoWave production and was able to encode the video files without incident.

 

Thank you for the assistance! I would have never thought to use the VideoWave production as the source for MyDVD. So no need to take the journey through creating and MP4 file.

 

Thank you again!

[Jim_Hardin]

Grrreat!!!

 

I am really happy that worked for you!!!

 

I just completed converting some 10 hours of DVD's that I am combining on BD that like yours, just kept defying me every step of the way :angry: