Thursday, 18 November 2004
iDVD Burning Issues
I just burned my first DVD from iMovie using iDVD. It came out great, but I had some weird issues.
I'd edited down my movie perfectly in iMovie, exported it to iDVD, and set up my whole project with menus and everything. Ready to go, or so I thought.
When I clicked "Burn" in iDVD it would ask for a blank DVD-R and I would insert one off my spool of 25. iDVD would then proceed to spin for about 30 seconds and then it would eject my DVD-R.
How rude.
After a couple of times it became apparent that I needed a new game plan. By this point, I was pissed because the only reason I got this PowerBook in the first place was so I could burn DVD footage while I'm travelling the world. It won't do me a lot of good to be able to edit footage from my DV camera if I can't create a DVD out of it.
In the end, it turned out that I was using the wrong kind of blank discs. Don't ask how long it took for me to figure this out, but apparently there are two kinds of blank dvds: DVD-R and DVD+R:
DVD-R/RW was developed by Pioneer. Based on CD-RW technology, it uses a similar pitch of the helix, mark length of the 'burn' for data, and rotation control. DVD-R/RW is supported by the DVD Forum, an industry-wide group of hardware and software developers, and computer peripheral manufacturers. The DVD-R format has been standardized in ECMA-279 by the Forum, but this is a private standard, not an 'industry' ISO standard like the CD-R/RW Red Book or Orange Book standard.
DVD+R/RW is also based on CD-RW technology. DVD+R/RW is supported by Sony, Philips, HP, Dell, Ricoh, Yamaha, and others, and has recently been endorsed by Microsoft. DVD+R/RW is not supported by the DVD Forum, but the Forum has no power to set industry standards, so it becomes a market-driven issue.
Technical Answer
DVD+R is a dvd disc that allows multiple layers for one disc where as dvd-r only allows one layer. They will not compete to become the de Facto standard, because they are both here to stay. Multi layer DVD+R can allow extra capacity per disc than DVD-R hence its high cost!
Who knew?
Posted by SmooveJ Zao on November 18, 2004 at 03:09 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
could anyone answer my question, why is it when I burn my dvd off idvd the fade in and outs turn out choppy? Thanks.
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