Burning DVDs and Ulead issues.

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Hi.

As a newcomer to this area, it is very noticable how much comment is generated on DVD production from PTE when users try to use Ulead software, so I'd like to throw a few points into the melting pot, if I may.

Let's leave out the custom avi approach for the time being.

PTE offers what appears to be a simple and straightforward way of producing DVDs, by simply ticking checkboxes to use Adobe, Pinnacle or Ulead software, then loading the relevant package and burning the disk, remembering of course NOT to click on the 'Finish' button in PTE until the whole job is finished!

It would appear that it generally works fine with Adobe and Pinnacle, but Movie Factory generates quite a few comments.

This is what I have found.

Observation 1 : When you tick the box for Adobe or Pinnacle, PTE will produce a file with an .avi extension, as you would expect. With Ulead, it creates a .ptev file.

Observation 2 : PTE uses Movie Factory version 2. This program has long gone - we are on version 5 now! I have used version 5 for the DVD process and it doesn't recognise the video file produced by PTE. I'm led to believe theat the same is true for version 4 as well. A number of comments in different threads seem to confirm this.

So, is it that PTE has not moved on to take account of changes in Movie Factory? Where would you get Movie Factory 2 from now, and why would you want to anyway?

yes, I know that every time this issue crops up, people chip in with workarounds using custom avis, but that clouds the issue and is missing the point of why the tickbox approach doesn't seem to work for certain versions of Movie Factory.

It would be helpful if Igor could clarify whether the problem is related to which version of Movie Factory is used, and what the situation is likely to be in PTE 5 when that element is implemented.

(Is ptev an old codec? I can't seem to find it anywhere now?

Thanks.

[Ken Cox]

I will throw an additional question into the pot

if you do not select pinnacle adobe or ulead , will ulead 5 accept the resulting temp vid/avi

and if so how does the resulting dvd perform

I think the ptev is part of the program but Igor will have to answer for sure

using this proggie

AviCodec - Download and install this freeware.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...rs/avicodec.cfm

how to guide

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/wh...decs_to_use.cfm

it shows that i have the ptev on the system

ken

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I will throw an additional question into the pot

if you do not select pinnacle adobe or ulead , will ulead 5 accept the resulting temp vid/avi

and if so how does the resulting dvd perform

I think the ptev is part of the program but Igor will have to answer for sure

using this proggie

AviCodec - Download and install this freeware.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...rs/avicodec.cfm

how to guide

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/wh...decs_to_use.cfm

it shows that i have the ptev on the system

ken

That's an interesting option Ken. I'll try it when I get a bit more time.

I hadn't thought of trying no ticks because that's a bit of an oddity in itself - you would expect PTE to say "Hey, you haven't ticked a box yet, you can't progress any further". indeed, that is exactly what it ought to do, and will be a bug otherwise.

If it does let you progress further without ticking boxes, it begs the question as to what settings it is using to create the avi - maybe the ones currently active from the custom avi settings??

[Ken Cox]

I use nero, roxio, winavi,windvd,dvdsanta etc depending what i want to do so there are no boxes to check therefore not a bug

- i just use the default p2e codec which one does not see if not making a custome avi

ken

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Thanks Ken - that obviously makes sense.

And now............an apology.

I've just got my new laptop - installed the relevant software (making sure it was the latest version 4, ie 4.48) - and it all works with Ulead!!!!!!!!

So sorry for wasting your time.

I'm still puzzled as to what the problem is on my desktop - can only think that something has been corrupted at some stage to cause Ulead not to recognise the file.

[Ken Cox]

Can you maybe write something up on what you did or how you went about making a show with ulead ver 5 so that we can refer other people to this thread who have problems

and you did not waste my time -- we aim to please:)

ken

[Nathan]

I will throw an additional question into the pot

if you do not select pinnacle adobe or ulead , will ulead 5 accept the resulting temp vid/avi

and if so how does the resulting dvd perform

I think the ptev is part of the program but Igor will have to answer for sure

using this proggie

AviCodec - Download and install this freeware.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...rs/avicodec.cfm

how to guide

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/wh...decs_to_use.cfm

it shows that i have the ptev on the system

ken

Ken, I use Ulead's Video Studio 7 to render AVI to DVD. When creating the AVI in Pictures to Exe I untick the default Movie Factory box and just click on create AVI file. VS7 recognises the file when importing, from there it's rendered to DVD format and saved. Creating disc in VS7 I don't think is any different to Movie Factory and results are as good as you can get when viewing on TV.

[Ken Cox]

thanks Nathan

ken