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I produced a CD this morning from a program I shot last night. I had 3 scenes totaling 61 minutes. I made 1 scene out of those 3 scenes and a scene sample out of the combined scene. The disc burned and I went to duplicate it. In my duplicator it went to 95% and I got an error that said Source disc error. I took the discs out and checked each one and they all had at least the first 10MIN or so on each disc. we had to go to a funeral so when we got back I called the service dept of my Duplicators. We went thru several test and discovered that it tested good. He instructed me to change the burn mode which I did and I burned another disc. Same result. I the took a Cd master I had burned last week and burned a copy of it. It burned withhout a hitch. I then put a copy of the CD I had burned this week and I fast forwarded and listened. It went to 59: 29 and it started repeating. It will go back to 59:17 and continue to 59:29. I went in to the Combined scene and went to 59:10 or so and Split it there and then played the remaining footage. It played thru this spot several times without a hitch. Does anyone have any suggestions. I have spent more time on this thing than I made. Thanks in advance. Bob...

Bob:
Unless you made a TYPO in your post, you stated you were trying to put about 60 minutes of video and a sample of that 60 minute video onto a CD. It just wont fit. There is not enough capacity on a CD to fit more than about 20 minutes of video on it. You could easily fit 60 minutes onto a DVD, but not a CD. It's like trying to put a gallon of water into a pint jar. There simply isnt enough room. Use a DVD.

Bob:
I realized I was not exactly correct in my previous post. I was the one mixing up CD's and DVD's. You cant put more than 20 minutes of raw uncompressed DV AVI files onto a DVD. Once compressed to MPEG-2, you can fit more depending on your chosen resolution. I really dont know how much video and audio you can fit onto a CD. I would just check your settings carefully, to be sure you are not trying to get more resoluiton out of it than it can handle.

Thanks guys for your input. I got an e-mail from Chet and he had me try a couple things , of which neither worked. I have the right media. I have now burned 4 discs of the same footage, with the same result. There has been no firmware change, the drives in Question have burned over 50 disc today with no trouble. The disc had to have finalized, I was playing them in a run of the mill DVD player.I am thinking it had to finalize to play there. The capacity is 72 minutes for the CD and my program was 61 minutes long. In fact I used the same process to produce audio from last nights program and the copied burned without a hitch again. The only scene I haven't address that Lou suggests is a corrupted file. That is in all probability the problem. I delivered the disc to the church and explained it to the pastor. He said it was ok, God just wanted to repeat those words from 59:17 to 59:29. LOL! I have a few ideas to try when I get time. At least I will make more chapters so I can narrow down where the offending file is. If its on the end I really coul shorten the program by 2 minutes or so with no problem. Thanks for responding. If anyone has other ideas let me know. It has now become a challenge. Whats going to be interesting is that next week I have to edit the video and produce a package of all nights of the revival. I wonder if I'll run into a problem then. Bob...