Archive for November 9th, 2006
Corrupted DVDs using Pinnacle Studio 9
Thursday, November 9th, 2006 at 12:56 am
After completion of a huge personal project requiring the creation of amost two dozen DVDs I realized I had a major issue with data corruption. All the DVDs were unusable, corrupted in various ways. The video files seemed to be fine but once they got to a DVD all was lost. I spent two solid weeks on this project only to have to throw away all my work.
I was using Pinnacle Studio 9 to both edit the video and burn the DVD. Editing and creating the video with Pinnacle worked okay; burning the DVDs with Pinnacle, I found, was the mistake. Once I discovered all my DVDs were nothing more than coasters I started doing some research and found I wasn’t the only one who had the problem. Turns out the burning engine in the software is defective and creates corrupted DVDs.
I’d already spent $80 on the software …read more »
