Burn DVD from Vegas 10

[David Jasany]

I'm trying to burn a DVD from the timeline and haven't had any success. I'm running Win 7 with a DVD-RW. The writing lead-in reaches 100% then hangs there. Write buffer shows 0% wih no time remaining. Hit cancel and I get the blue spinning wheel and still no response. Hit cancel a few more times and I get the Vegas Pro is not responding message and Vegas closes.

I had the exact same problem on this system with DVD Architect 5 and after working with Sony I eventually gave up and used ImageBurn to burn DVDs. I was really hoping this problem would have gone away when I upgraded from 8.1.

I haven't tried DVD Architect Pro 5.2 yet. Can someone give this a try and let me know if it works on your system? Thanks.

[David Jasany]

I've also tried to burn with DVD Architect and the same results. This time the DVD-RW was trashed. This is exactly the same thing I experienced with DVDA 5. When I was troubleshooting the problem at that time I found several people having the same problem and also switched to ImgBurn. Looks like I'll be contactacting Sony and try to nail this problem once and for all.

[Edward Troxel]

Vegas 10 can burn one of two ways: Using the previous method found in Vegas 9 and earlier or using the Microsoft IMAPI drivers. If it's not working with the current setting, you might try changing to the other.

[David Jasany]

Thanks Ed! I unclicked the "Use Legacy Drivers" option in Vegas and it worked! By having it unchecked, Microsoft Image Mastering API disk drivers are being used. Default is checked.

Unfortanately, I did not have the same good fortune with DVD Architect. I made the same change, and at first I thought it was going to work. Progress of the burn continued until burning lead out with 99% completion. The it just stayed there for about 5 minutes and eventually came up with an unknow error message. The disk stayed spinning and after pressing the eject button several times and waiting for 3-4 minutes the disk was ejected.

At least the disk wasn't ruined this time. I view it's contents and it didn't show any files were burned, but there was no free space available.

So for DVDA, the symptoms changed for burning a DVD but the outcome was similar. I'm going to try it again a few times just to be sure.

Thanks again for resolving the Vegas issue, that's great. I wonder why the legacy drivers are not working on my system.

Dave

[Craig Longman]

What brand DVD burner do you have in your system?

[David Jasany]

Craig, the burner is a Pioneer DVR-218L with the latest and only firmware 1.02.

[David Jasany]

This is an update on my DVD burning problem. I jury rigged an old Pioneer PATA burner through a USB adapter and I was able to burn both DVD-R and DVD-RW disks. I then went back to my original Pioneer DVR-218L and was also able to burn both disks.

Ed - I think changing to the Microsoft drivers as you suggested did fix the problem both in Vegas and DVD Architect. I may have had a bad disk when I first tried the MS driver with DVD Architect.That's the only explanation I can come up with.

I've also researched the Pioneer DVR-218L and there are numerous problem posts with it. Apparantly the the drive is basically a Lite-On drive and it doesn't use Pioneer's usual NEC chip set.

Thanks again Ed!

[Richard Blanchard]

I discovered that Vegas 10 PRO will burn a DVD directly from the timeline, Just hit TOOLS/BURN DISC/DVD
and it makes a complete playable DVD. BUT, how do you control the file size? My 2-minute test video took up about one third of a 4GB DVD ! Would appreciate any help on this.

[Edward Troxel]

I'll bet a 4 minute one would have taken exactly the same size. For compatibility, if I recall correctly, a certain amount of the DVD must be used.