DVD will not play in DVD Player

Are you trying to burn HD DVDs? Are you using the Compressor Presets for DVD, and then taking that into DVD SP?

Here's a pretty simple workflow:

#42 - Quick and dirty way to author a DVD

Shane's Stock Answer #42 - David Roth Weiss' Secret Quick and Dirty Way to Author a DVD:

The absolute simplest way to make a DVD using FCP and DVDSP is as follows:

1. Export a QT movie, either a reference file or self contained using current settings.

2. Open DVDSP, select the "graphical" tab and you will see two little monitors, one blue, one green.

3. Select the left blue one and hit delete.

4. Now, select the green one, right click on it amd select the top option "first play".

5. Now drag your QT from the broswer and drop it on top of the green monitor.

6. Now, for a DVD from an HD source, look to the right side and select the "general tab" in the track editor, and see the Display Mode, and select "16:9 pan-scan."

7. Hit the little black and yellow burn icon at the top of the page and put a a DVD in when prompted. DVDSP will encode and burn your new DVD.

THATS ALL!!!

NOW...if you want a GOOD LOOKING DVD, instead of taking your REF movie into DVD SP, instead take it into Compressor and choose the BEST QUALITY ENCODE (2 pass VBR) that matches your show timing. Then take THAT result into DVD SP and follow the rest of the steps. Except you can choose "16:9 LETTERBOX" instead of PAN & SCAN if you want to see the entire image.

Why is it bigger than the DVD? Out of compressor it should come out the right size. Are you choosing the appropriate preset? If it is under 90 min...use the 90 min preset. If it is between 90 and 120, use the 120 min preset...between 120 and 150...150 min preset. If you have a film that is, say 126 min, and you use the 120 min preset...it will be too big.

Hi

Usually the problem is one of these

• BRAND of DVD - Most Cheap brands are not OK for Video-DVDs as Memorex, NoName etc. Maxell - I don't know - I don't use

I only use Verbatim (more organic dye in them)

• Type of DVD used

- DVD +/- R - usually don't work or give major problems - mine get a solid blue picture

- DVD+R - are a modern standard - but doesn't play on older DVD-players

- DL-DVDs - usually are more problematic than SL-DVDs

I only use DVD-R - as I don't know how old the viewers devices are

• BURN SPEED - Major contributing problem - Higher Speed ===> More Burn Errors ==> DVD doesn't play

- Best is NOT BEST at all

I set this to x2 or x4 at max.

Yours Bengt W

Bengt, I always use dvd-r's and they seem the most consistent to me. First question I ask when someone has a problem getting a burned disk to play on a set top player is, "did you use dvd+r? If so, try burning dvd-r." This usually solves the problem.

My understanding is that write speed is no longer the issue it was 10 years ago. I always burn at the maximum possible. I've read this many times on various message boards. Of course, we both know that isn't necessarily rock solid as a source.

FWIW, I always just do a build in DVDSP and then burn in Toast doing a verify after burning.

That said, I don't think I've had a disk get rejected in 5 years UNTIL about a month ago when I disk I burned on a thermal printable blank (cause I've got a casio disk printer) wouldn't read on a client's dvd player. I burned a replacement using a memorex blank without any issues. And then another client had a problem playing a dvd-r I burned in a blu-ray player (which she said didn't have any problems with other dvd's."

I usually (if I have the time) at least throw the burned disk into an old set top player I have here to make sure it works.