Video Recording/Playback/Editing/Converting/etc.

BOGCHI wrote:I finally got Nero7 :mrgreen:
makes it easier for me to convert stuff to DVD :dancing: :hehe:

Hmm.....it comes with Nero Vision Express, right? Feel free to post here when you have problems with overscan and adding subtitles to your video :mrgreen: :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Nuts, you figured it out. :sweat: :ashamed:

Give my regards to senator Palpatine :hehe:

I've got NeroVision Express..... I haven't used it with soft subs yet. Is there something I should know?

Anime Dad wrote:I've got NeroVision Express..... I haven't used it with soft subs yet. Is there something I should know?

You can't add subtitles with NeroVision Express, so you'll have to hardsub your videos before you encode them with NVE.

Saito_Hajime wrote:
Hmm.....it comes with Nero Vision Express, right? Feel free to post here when you have problems with overscan and adding subtitles to your video

well I had problems.. but it SEEMS to be fixed now (after wasting 10 DVDs) :grumble:
ill remember to ask here if ever i have problems again to avoid the waste of dvds

Saito_Hajime wrote:

You can't add subtitles with NeroVision Express, so you'll have to hardsub your videos before you encode them with NVE.

Ah, OK, i'll remember that. I think i'll try http://www.divxland.org/subtitler.php for subs.

BOGCHI wrote:
well I had problems.. but it SEEMS to be fixed now (after wasting 10 DVDs) :grumble:
ill remember to ask here if ever i have problems again to avoid the waste of dvds

Wow, 10 dvds went to waste. :sweat: Anyway, good luck with NVE. :mrgreen:

Saito_Hajime wrote:

Wow, 10 dvds went to waste. :sweat: Anyway, good luck with NVE. :mrgreen:

seriously man.. it sucks. i feel bad wasting them.
Well Nero was easy to use.. it was my writers fault (cant write 16x)

question: what do you guys do with wasted DVDS?
(I usually just crack them and throw them away.. and forget about how I wasted a freakin dvd)

BOGCHI wrote:


question: what do you guys do with wasted DVDS?
(I usually just crack them and throw them away.. and forget about how I wasted a freakin dvd)

Just like you, I throw them away. I don't see any purpose of keeping coasters and eating up some space in the shelf when you can put other useful (and working) stuff there.

oh i thought you could do something useful to it.. (aside from coasters)

does DVD-RW work on standalone DVD players?

BOGCHI wrote:oh i thought you could do something useful to it.. (aside from coasters)

does DVD-RW work on standalone DVD players?

Well, if it's re-writable then keep it. I haven't tried playing a dvd-rw on a standalone dvd player because I don't buy RWs, so I can't comment on that. :sweat:

Anime Dad wrote:

Ah, OK, i'll remember that. I think i'll try http://www.divxland.org/subtitler.php for subs.

I use Virtualdub with subtitle filter, but that software is also good. :mrgreen:

BOGCHI wrote:oh i thought you could do something useful to it.. (aside from coasters)

does DVD-RW work on standalone DVD players?

They should... I've tried them on my four-year old Sony and they work as well as on my Panasonic DVD recorder. :)

BOGCHI wrote:oh i thought you could do something useful to it.. (aside from coasters)

...

hang them from the rear view mirror of your car to defeat police radar guns.

:lol: :lol: :rofl:

BOGCHI wrote:well I had problems.. but it SEEMS to be fixed now (after wasting 10 DVDs) :grumble:
ill remember to ask here if ever i have problems again to avoid the waste of dvds

Whenever I use a new version of burning software and/or author a new DVD, I always burn to a DVD-RW first, just to make sure everything's okay... That way you won't waste a buncha DVD-Rs... ;)

bmwracer wrote:
Whenever I use a new version of burning software and/or author a new DVD, I always burn to a DVD-RW first, just to make sure everything's okay... That way you won't waste a buncha DVD-Rs... ;)

I should start doing that. Sometimes my writer goes crazy.. well a lot of times.
I just bought a new DVD-R pack. IMATION. cheaper than SONY.. should have added a DVD-RW :sweat:

BOGCHI wrote:I should start doing that. Sometimes my writer goes crazy.. well a lot of times.
I just bought a new DVD-R pack. IMATION. cheaper than SONY.. should have added a DVD-RW :sweat:

Maybe you should think about getting a new writer... What brand do you have now?

I've read that the Pioneers and NECs are the most reliable.

bmwracer wrote:
Maybe you should think about getting a new writer... What brand do you have now?

I've read that the Pioneers and NECs are the most reliable.

I think I got something.. bad.
MAJICSPIN
only had it for a few months and already writing at 16X doesn't work. I doubt it'll last me a year.

BOGCHI wrote:I think I got something.. bad.
MAJICSPIN
only had it for a few months and already writing at 16X doesn't work. I doubt it'll last me a year.

Try burning at 8X... Haven't heard much positive about 16X burns... Or DL media.

bmwracer wrote:
Try burning at 8X... Haven't heard much positive about 16X burns... Or DL media.

i do.. but everytime i set it at 8x.. the log says it was writing at 16x. I don't know. So I use Control Drive (comes w/ nero) and so far its working swell.. even if the log still says its burning at 16x (weird).
Is there a way to automatically set it to 8x?

Have you tried updating the firmware of your writer?