Hi Mijo,

I believe my sister has one of those or similar, are you try to finalize the disc in your PC or the camera? Will your PC read / copy the disc to the hard drive? Sorry I am not very familiar with the Sony, I have not used it maybe once or twice since she bought it.

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the good fortune to run into the ones I do
and the eyesight to tell the difference.

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The sony camera is DCR-DVD301. It makes small 1/2 hour discs and after the disc is full, the camera finalizes the small disc without the problem. The finalized disc can they be watched on almost all DVD players. Now the problems start when I want to edit those movies. With the camera I received a software program that successfully turs this taped material from the disc into the mpeg files one the computer. They can be edited and cut etc. My next step is to try to burn these mpeg files onto the larger, regualr size DVD disc using RecordNow from Sonic. The program does that as well. The end result is the DVD disc about 2 hours long that can be watched on the computer just fine. But, I would like to finalize this DVD disc so that I can watch it on the normal DVD players. And this is what I can not do. Even though the software from Sonic has a finalizing option in it, when I try to finalize the disc, i get the message "insert an d appendable write-once DVD..." I have no clue what that means even though I went through their help manual thoroughly. I even tried to contact Sonic about it but without success. I was kind of hoping that someone knows the way around this.
My next step will possibly be to try if MACs can do it.

Thanks to all who respond.

Mijo

Message Edited by mirkvort on 05-15-2005 06:54 AM

Hi Mijo,

A very well written post, see if the following update/patch from Sonic fixes this issue:

http://support.sonic.com/dwnld/engine.asp?type=desktop&product=recordnow

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God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do
and the eyesight to tell the difference.

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CD/RW Link

I don't think Finalizing is the problem, format is!

RecordNow has no native ability to make a DVD Movie. By using it to burn you have created a Data DVD that is probably already Finalized. A Data DVD cannot be read by a DVD Player.

You would need to use MyDVD to make one from your edited file.

Hi Jim,.

My first, and most common, guess is that you may have ripped the mpeg files directly off the miniDVD's from the camcorder without re-encoding them first. The raw files on those discs are at a MASSIVE bit rate (way above the 9.8 MBps standard for DVD compliancy)  to be burned. The solution, which I hope is the case for you, is that you have to use the video editing software (usually Pixela) to convert the file to MPEG-2 files before imprting into MyDVD. Here's a turorial of Pixela:

http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/support/tutorials/dvimag/vlpix0002_viewlet_swf.html

and ImageMixer:

http://www.imagemixer.com/e/sony/index.htm

Both of which are included with Sony camera's.

Take Care,

-G-

Got it. Then it sounds like a simple Firmware type issue. Sonic Has a pretty simple step by step article/shot gun solution for basic buring issues.

Obviuosly the media isn't being recognized which brings it to your burner or the media. Just go through thier step by step dealio and see if it helps you out. Long link below:

http://cs.sonic.com/scripts/texcel/swise/ksearch.dll?DisplayDetail?12&0&0&1&12&601&12&solutions%20

-G-

No, the software that came with the camera (Image mixer version 1.5) converts the mini disc fils to mpeg-2 files. Than I use MyDVD to create a DVD disc. Upon the cration of that DVD disc (takes about 40 mins to creat a disc of about 2 hours), I try to finalize it and than I get the message "insert appendable wrtie-once DVD disc etc"

Hope this helps clarify it

Jim Hardin's suggestion is the correct one. You are converting the video to MPEG, but then this needs to be encoded to DVD video format. I'm not sure Sonic can do this. The full version of Nero can.

Osprey4,

Sonic`s update supposed to improved the program very much, but as you said Jim Hardin`s advice is the best.

X`sO`s,

Linda Sue