Burning more than one DVD from a movie project

dan_lachance wrote on 11/21/2022, 11:09 AM

Hi,

I am working with Movie Studio 2023 Suite. I completed my movie project, burned a DVD and all is fine, just like expected. My question is : why does it go through all the rendering process when I burn a second DVD ? I takes a lot of time More than an hour). Is there another way to make more DVDs of a movie with Movie Studio 2023 Suite ? Just like we do with Nero Burning Rom or something like that ?

Thanx.

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johnebaker wrote on 11/21/2022, 11:40 AM

@dan_lachance

There are several ways of doing this:

As you have already burned the disc, why not duplicate it using Nero Burning ROM - the disc has to be read once to burn many copies ?

I prefer use either of two similar methods both save you wasting money of discs when you find an error.:

Burn to a rewriteable disc and test this to ensure everything is OK, if I have to make corrections I do this and burn once again to DVD-RW or BD-RE.
Burn the movie as an ISO disc image using the Image Recorder option in the burn dialog instead to the burner, test using VLC or Nero Blu-Ray Player to ensure everything is OK, fix if not and reburn to ISO image and test .

Once the disc/ISO image is correct I use Nero Burning ROM to duplicate the disc or burn the ISO image to DVD-R or BD-R disc(s).

HTH

John EB
Forum Moderator

dan_lachance wrote on 11/21/2022, 3:03 PM

Thank you for your answer John. I did not know how to create an ISO image with Movie Studio, now I know.

I understand I'll have to use another app like Nero to burn DVDs from the ISO image. Would be great if we could use this ISO image with Movie Studio though...

AAProds wrote on 11/21/2022, 6:25 PM

@dan_lachance

You can indeed burn multiple copies using MEP. I don't have access to MMS 2023 so it may have changed recently but in the older versions (2021), simply go through the burn process again. You'll eventually be presented with this dialogue:

MEP is asking you if you want to re-encode (ie re-render) the VOBs created from the first run or if you want to "Use them" (ie not re-render). Choose "Use All" and MEP will then use the previously rendered VOBs for the new disk, skipping the rendering step.

I agree with John re burning an ISO first; you can check it with a software DVD player such as VLC Player to make sure all the menus work, then you can go ahead, as I described, to actually burn your disk/s, or you can burn that ISO with Nero or other burning programs (I use IMGburn).

dan_lachance wrote on 11/26/2022, 3:00 PM

Thanx AAProds. I still wanted to find another way of doing this without Nero or another app like that.

I found out that Movie Studio creates a 'Disc images' folder where it keeps all the .BUP, .IFO and .VOB files you need to create a DVD. So I just created new VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders, put all the .BUP, .IFO and .VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder and burned a new DVD with Windows 10. Works just fine.

johnebaker wrote on 11/26/2022, 4:15 PM

@dan_lachance

. . . . . I just created new VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders, put all the .BUP, .IFO and .VOB files in the VIDEO_TS folder and burned a new DVD with Windows 10 . . . .

That reminded me - Windows can also burn ISO images to disc, the advantage of an ISO image all the structure is there ready for burning - no manual compiling necessary.

John EB