Jason13
@rogers.com
| My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long -
Okay I have a frustrating problem. I'm converting old VHS family tapes to DVD's on my DVD burner but anything over 1 hour is not completed and the DVD burner simply never finishes the job, the DVD's cannot be seen. Why? Don't DVD blank discs have 4.7 gigabyte capacity? My 2-hour VHS tapes only take up about 2.5 gigabytes. The longest VHS tapes I converted was a 90-minute one. I can only convert 1-hour-long videos into DVD and then the disc is full, why?
My VHS tapes are recorded into my harddrive as MPEG's videos by the way............. | |
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AB
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Leesburg, VA | Re: My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long What software are you using to burn? | |
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Jason13
@rogers.com
| Re: My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long -
I'm using Pinnacle's Studio 11 "Instant DVD recorder", but I also have Nero but since I'm not PC savvy I do not know how to use it, it's not user-friendly and it simply does not offers me a way to burn a DVD, it only has the choices of "data transfer to CD" and "data transfer to DVD" and "back up files to CD". Nero doesn't have a choice of "burn movie to DVD". | |
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AB
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join:2006-04-04
Leesburg, VA
| Basically, you need to convert those mpegs to DVD (.ts & .vob) format, then burn that to disc.
Two to get you started-- for video conversion, AVI-Demux:
»mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?p···avidemux
For burning, ImgBurn: »www.imgburn.com/
There are tons of others. Both of those are free, btw. | |
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howie
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join:2003-04-08
Little Falls, NJ
4 edits | The bottom line here is that DVD "high quality" uses 4+GB per hour of DVD video. Once you've captured your videos to disk, you need to find a utility that allows conversion to "standard play" which is the 2 hour mode or one that automatically fits your video(s) to a standard size (4.7 or 8.5GB) DVD. I've found nothing better (without spending hundreds) than TMPGEnc's DVD Author 3, or for a simple solution (no editing features), VSO's ConvertXtoDVD.
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Jason13
@rogers.com
| Re: My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long -
Thanks to everybody for the great answers and alternatives, what would happen if I simply downgrade the quality of my videos transferred from my VHS tapes to my harddrive? To make the space-gigabyte consumption smaller? I'm using a Dazzle device (ancient, from 2001) to import my VHS tapes into my harddrive and it has a selection menu what quality I want my videos in, I could downgrade that quality no? | |
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Jahntassa
What, I can have feathers
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join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC | Re: My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long Yes, you could downgrade the quality recorded it records with. You have to determine how low a quality you can stand to have by testing it. | |
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tomj1225
Premium
join:2001-12-17
Allentown, PA | If you have Nero installed, there's a good chance you also have NeroVision installed - check the start menu for it. NeroVision should let you add the video files and convert it to DVD format and fit the files on a standard size DVD. | |
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Jason13
@rogers.com
| Re: My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long -
Nope, there's no NeroVision, just crap like "NeroSmartEssentials", "NeroBackItUp" and "NeroCoverEssentials".
What a crappy, useless program this Nero is. I had DVD-burning software that was way better back in 2003 with my HP Pavillion computer. | |
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wings10
I Am Legend
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South Elgin, IL | Re: My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long Strange? What version of NERO do you have? I have Nerovision on NERO 6. | |
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Jason13
@rogers.com | Re: My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long It doesn't even says what Nero version it is, it just says "Nero" on the icon and when I click it the program opens but there's no version detail anywhere on the interface. | |
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wings10
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| Re: My DVD Burner Won't Burn Anything Over 60 Mins Long said by Jason13 :
It doesn't even says what Nero version it is, it just says "Nero" on the icon and when I click it the program opens but there's no version detail anywhere on the interface.
Go to Help then About Nero and it will tell you.
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