Can't export my finished project

[mortgageman]

I've tried a number of ways to export my project - now that it is finished.

Using, well, export - I tried both the mpeg and the avi option (the avi option I find on the file export). The mpeg gave me a unknown error C00D11CD (how can it be unknown if windows knows its number?). The avi played, but extremely poor. The audio was very very slow and totally out of synch. (It was not like this in the project itself)

I then tried the DVD option. When I tried to put the DVD to an actual DVD, it kept stopping in the middle and giving me a information pop up box with only an R in it. At the same time the drive would open.

I then put the DVD to a folder. That completed but there is not "executable" in the folder.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gene, "The Mortgage Man", Klein

[ATR]

Hi,

It is only me again.

First, let us start with Burn to Folder in the DVD options.

When you burn to folder, do you end up with and find the folder? If so, does this folder contain two folders Open DVD and VIDEO_TS?

Are you using Nero or Record Now for burning your folder to DVD? These are burn softwares that came with my drives. In Nero (Start Smart or Express Dialog) you have to go the Burn Image (DVD video files) Route (not create data disc). When doing this, you only use the VIDEO_TS folder with all its contents. The Record Now route is similiar.

This I do all the time and have unwrinkled all the wrinkles.

ATR

[mortgageman]

Hi,

It is only me again.

First, let us start with Burn to Folder in the DVD options.

When you burn to folder, do you end up with and find the folder? If so, does this folder contain two folders Open DVD and VIDEO_TS?

Are you using Nero or Record Now for burning your folder to DVD? These are burn softwares that came with my drives. In Nero (Start Smart or Express Dialog) you have to go the Burn Image (DVD video files) Route (not create data disc). When doing this, you only use the VIDEO_TS folder with all its contents. The Record Now route is similiar.

This I do all the time and have unwrinkled all the wrinkles.

ATR


First Re: only me - You have been VERY VERY HELPFULL SO FAR. I would not use the word "only"

Second: I do find the folder and it does contain those two folders. From the rest of your answer, I gather that I should not expect these folders to be a final working movie. I understand you to mean I need to do at least one more step in "converting" this folder to a playable disk. The drive I have is a LITEON and it came with 4 disks. I have not used any of them yet. The disks are LITEON,That's DVD+R (which I think is a blank disk), Sonic MyDVD installer disk 4.0 and Powerlink PowerDVD. I suspect the last one is the one I should use?

Does your silence on Premiere Element's own export features mean that I should expect them to be less than satisfactory?

Gene, "The Mortgage Man", Klein

[ATR]

Part 2....

Just to polish off Part 1, going Export, to DVD is essentially the same as going the DVD Module route to burn to disc or folder. Have you tried just going DVD Module, Burn Dialog, Burn to Disc and be done with it?

Now for the File/Export/Movie to get AVI. You say that you created an AVI that way, but that the playback quality is poor and the that there is a sound problem. What are you using for AVI playback? Is it the AVI on a DVD disc at this point? Or, are you just clicking on the AVI file and evaluating playback in the Windows Media Player? Windows Media Player is THE player for AVI. My TV/DVD player supports DVD VIDEO (MPEG 2), but not AVI. And, the CyberLink PowerDVD program that I use supports DVD VIDEO (MPEG2) and VCD, but not AVI.

If you say that you are getting good playback in the program (Premiere Elements 2.0, I presume), but what about Windows Media Player?

Part 3 (the Export/MPEG route) to follow if need be.

ATR

[ATR]

When I posted last (what is shown as #4), I thought that I was responding to your post #2 (did not see a post #3). I was away from the computer and saw your post #3 just now when I got back.

Everything depends on your goals. What I am about to describe assumes that you want to put your Timeline work on a DVD to play on the TV/DVD player and/or computer:

If you go from Edit Module (with Rendering et al.) to DVD Module you have more options (for one example, DVD menus) before you actually "author/burn" to get to the final product which is a DVD-Video (MPEG2). In the Burn Dialog you will have the choice of burn to disc or burn to folder (choice single or double layer DVD). Keep in mind that the "author/burn" is done by the Sonic software that is incorporated into Premiere Elements 2.0.

For some, their DVD Writer(Burner) is just not compatible with Premiere Elements Sonic burning software. That is when burn to folder is a life saver. Keys to burn to folder, (1) name and remember where you saved the folder (2) for Nero and Record Now, it is the VIDEO_TS folder that is burned to disc as DVD Video files (Burn Image). Other software may do it differently. Just look for the choice for putting DVD video files on the DVD.

By comparison, if you had gone directly from the Timeline to Export and chosen "to DVD", you would get the same Burn dialog as the one if you had gone the DVD module route. So, if you went the Export way, you would also have the choice of burn to disc or burn to folder. But, whatever the case, you only need to burn DVD files to DVD. No authoring additional software.

Now here is where it gets interesting and this authoring versus burning business comes in. If you go Export, MPEG, and select the DVD (MPEG2) option and you want to make a DVD-VIDEO, as one books says, you are in the wrong place!!! The output here, whether for DVD or VCD, requires that you put your "MPEG" export through another software (authoring). Nero can burn as well as author. Just have to pick the appropriate category. Check out your software offerings and match them up with what you want to do. Some software will offer content sensitive menus to help you along the way. (Just a side note before leaving this section...Premiere Elements 2.0 does not do VCD or SVCD. So to get that job done, Export/MPEG comes in handy to create the MPEG to be authored to VCD on CD but with another program (authoring).

In post #4, you will find my comments on File/Export/Movie (AVI). The problem that I have with that is that, for me, AVI plays great on Windows Media Player, but nowhere else.

Bottom line, think about starting at the top of these comments and working done if plan A does not work out.

Good luck.

ATR