JanI
June 9th, 2006, 04:59 PM
My son and daughter have done some videoing of our cats for a school project. They've made a super job and are very proud of themselves, but are now trying to transfer to DVD. We haven't had a DVD burner very long, having had it fitted specially on the acquisition of a new camcorder!
When they captured their material, as it was a first attempt, they thought it would be simpler to keep each project short, so they captured each "chapter" for want of a better word, as a separate project, thinking they would be able combine it and burn it on to a DVD at the end. However, they don't seem to be able to do this. PE will only let you burn the project that is open at the time, if you try and add more, wants to overwrite the first (we're using re-writable DVDs at the moment, to avoid ruining recordable only DVDs). If we try and burn with Nero, which came with the burner, we drag the first project in, then when we try and add the second, the files inside the project have the same names, so it won't let us either.
So, they tried opening the first project and adding the others on the end, thinking they could combine the lot in PE, then burn it as one project. Nope. "Add media" just ignores us when we try and add the other projects. We tried adding photos, etc, just to test add media was actually working - that worked fine, but not to add one project to another.
Are we trying to do something that's impossible. Should they have put them all as one project in the first place? The reason they did it this way, is the "Premiere Elements Made Easy" book told us not to attempt to burn more than half an hours video onto a DVD. If you can't combine projects and can't burn more than half an hour, then it means you're chucking away one and a half hours on every DVD you burn. We're baffled.
They're now resorting to trying to export the whole lot back on to dv tape and recapture it as one project, but as you can see from my other posting on this forum, that's not going smoothly either!!! Eternal gratitude for anyone who can help please?
When they captured their material, as it was a first attempt, they thought it would be simpler to keep each project short, so they captured each "chapter" for want of a better word, as a separate project, thinking they would be able combine it and burn it on to a DVD at the end. However, they don't seem to be able to do this. PE will only let you burn the project that is open at the time, if you try and add more, wants to overwrite the first (we're using re-writable DVDs at the moment, to avoid ruining recordable only DVDs). If we try and burn with Nero, which came with the burner, we drag the first project in, then when we try and add the second, the files inside the project have the same names, so it won't let us either.
So, they tried opening the first project and adding the others on the end, thinking they could combine the lot in PE, then burn it as one project. Nope. "Add media" just ignores us when we try and add the other projects. We tried adding photos, etc, just to test add media was actually working - that worked fine, but not to add one project to another.
Are we trying to do something that's impossible. Should they have put them all as one project in the first place? The reason they did it this way, is the "Premiere Elements Made Easy" book told us not to attempt to burn more than half an hours video onto a DVD. If you can't combine projects and can't burn more than half an hour, then it means you're chucking away one and a half hours on every DVD you burn. We're baffled.
They're now resorting to trying to export the whole lot back on to dv tape and recapture it as one project, but as you can see from my other posting on this forum, that's not going smoothly either!!! Eternal gratitude for anyone who can help please?