Unable to burn DVD's with Movie Studio 18

barry-e wrote on 8/5/2021, 11:50 PM

Just purchased Movie Studio 18 and have been unable to burn to DVD. I have tried several DVD burners. Each time an image is created on my computer and the dialogue box states that the DVD has been burnt but nothing happens. The DVD burner does not spin and the DVD remains blank. I have also tried multiple blank DVDs. My burner works with other programmes so I guess that I am doing something wrong but cannot see what. I have tried every setting in the options/encoder but to no avail. Anybody have any idea what I am doing wrong? It should be so simple to just press the burn DVD button but nothing seems to work.

Thanks

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emmrecs wrote on 8/6/2021, 4:16 AM

@barry-e

Welcome to the Magix user to user forums.

As a first check, on the DVD burn screen, top dropdown, is your burner drive selected for use, or is it actually showing "Image Recorder"? If so, you will find, somewhere on your computer, a file called Your project name.ISO which can be used in any burning program that can "Burn a Disc Image", to create your finished DVD. See the screenshot below:

If you don't want to create a Disc Image, click on that dropdown and select your burner drive.

HTH

Jeff
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barry-e wrote on 8/6/2021, 4:30 PM

Hi there, The drop down box does show the name of the burner drive and if I use another DVD burner it will also show that as well. There is not a iso option but that is all the process does (create an ISO) . The burners are ok as I have tried a test with NERO and I can burn files with that. Every time I tried to burn I get an error message saying insufficient memory to buffer until I select a file location and then the ISO is created. The burn process proceeds with creating and burning and ends with the message "burn completed" but during this process the DVD burner does spin and no error messages are seen. As I have said the burners work with NERO so I guess that somewhere one of the settings isn't correct. Burn speed is set to the minimum 3x.......Interesting....I have just tried installing the programme on another machine and the burn process works after prompting to download DVD burn permission (free download) and Mpeg2 (free download). Do you think that on my main machine for some reason these permissions didn't work and if so how do I force the permissions so that I can burn?

johnebaker wrote on 8/6/2021, 5:15 PM

@barry-e

Hi

. . . . There is not a iso option but that is all the process does (create an ISO) . The burners are ok as I have tried a test with NERO and I can burn files with that . . . .

The Image recorder is specifically for creating an ISO image of the disc. You can then use Nero to burn the ISO image to disc.

The procedure I use when creating discs is:

  1. Create an ISO image then mount the ISO image (Windows 10) and use disc playing software eg VLC, or Nero Blu-Ray player if you create a Blu-Ray disc, and check that the menus/chapters etc all function as intended and check the movies for errors.
     
  2. Burn to rewritable disc using Nero and test again on the TV - seeing the finished product on a larger screen you helps finding errors which were not picked up when playing on the computer.
     
  3. If all is OK, copy the rewritable disc using Nero to DVD-RW or BD disc. The rewriteable disc can then be re-used.
     
  4. Archive the ISO image to a backup drive, and create a master disc if needed.

This may seem overkill however it does stop mistakes getting through and avoids wasting discs creating 'coasters' and provides security in case of hard drive or computer failure.

. . . . Do you think that on my main machine for some reason these permissions didn't work and if so how do I force the permissions so that I can burn? . . . .

It is possible that your Antivirus/Firewall is blocking program access to the Internet to get the necessary program components.

HTH

John EB
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AAProds wrote on 8/6/2021, 8:01 PM

@barry-e 

 There is not a iso option but that is all the process does (create an ISO) 

Barry, the "Image Recorder" option is the function that creates the ISO. It's Magix-speak for "Create ISO", assuming, of course MS 18 has this feature. Movie Edit Pro does.

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johnebaker wrote on 8/7/2021, 5:05 AM

@AAProds, @barry-e

Hi Alwyn

. . . . assuming, of course MS 18 has this feature . . .

It does

and if there is no burner is detected, many laptops no longer have them, it uses the Image recorder by default.

John EB

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barry-e wrote on 8/7/2021, 4:01 PM

The thing is the burning part of the programme can see my burner but it just doesn't burn. Having tried on another machine and confirmed everything works I can only assume that the "burn permissions download' and the "mpeg2 permissions download" didn't download and that is why although the programme says the burn process is completed it hasn't in fact burn the DVD. I would be interested to find out how to force the downloads without having to reinstall the whole programme!