The General PC Questions Thread

How the fuck do I burn a DVD of footage that I've recorded from my camera? Doing my fucking head in. I've got Sony Vegas Studio Platinum and Sony DVD Architect Studio. In Vegas I go to Make Movie and then choose burn to DVD, it renders it then opens it in Architect and then says the file isn't valid?!!?!? I mean WTF! Seriously it's doing my nut in. It should be simple, surely?!
 
what camera you got? is it a flash drive/hdd camcorder? or is it a POS bog standard digital camera?

Try and use eitehr pinncale studio or nero vision express. both can burn a dvd with cusom menu's for almost any type of video format
 
Tim7 said:
How the fuck do I burn a DVD of footage that I've recorded from my camera? Doing my fucking head in. I've got Sony Vegas Studio Platinum and Sony DVD Architect Studio. In Vegas I go to Make Movie and then choose burn to DVD, it renders it then opens it in Architect and then says the file isn't valid?!!?!? I mean WTF! Seriously it's doing my nut in. It should be simple, surely?!
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I usually convert anything I capture with a camera to AVI(Xvid) first(may cause slight loss of quality), then burn on DVD's or tinker about. Since AVI's are technically a format supported universally.

If u can't sort it out using Sony Vegas Studio try searching for a simpler DVD Authoring tool.
Haven't tried this but it looks simple enough, and there's a free version.
http://www.sothinkmedia.com/movie-dvd-maker/

and try nero vision as mentioned by jonney above. my sis uses it, no problems for her.

cheers
 
Does anyone know any cheap places to buy hard drives?

I'm looking for an 80gb IDE or Sata one for the least amount possible :)
 
Thanks i know there are some very good and cheap PC sites out there but i cant find any :LOL:

Crucial.com for example are cheap for memory (they were when i last used them anyway) but they dont do hdds
 
Yeah, do you know any sites?

Not porn sites i'm not into bestiality, i'm talking about cheap HDD sites
 
Coopz said:
Yeah, do you know any sites?

Not porn sites i'm not into bestiality, i'm talking about cheap HDD sites
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Oh fuck! I did not know what that meant so I searched it. Arghhhbakghaglghhfhabahsh! dam you coopz that is rank
 
I have had a look all over the place but was hoping someone knew somewhere i may not have seen :BLEH:
 
Help. :(

My DVD writer exploded a few days ago and I bought a replacement one, the Pioneer DVR-216D is supposed to be a really good writer.

Well, at the minute I'm ready to throw it through the fucking window.

Right, it's SATA. I've connected it all up. Windows starts and it sees the drive perfectly, except for one thing - it says there's an "Audio CD" inserted. There's nothing in the drive. Thinking it could use a firmware update I download the latest firmware but when I try to flash the drive it says "eject the disc first". :BRICK:

So I've looked around and someone suggested running the flasher in DOS. Which I did, but I get "this program cannot be run in DOS mode". Reading around there's issues with NVIDIA SATA controllers and optical drives but I don't have them, I have a ULi SATA controller. Interestingly NVIDIA have bought them out though. There's been no update to the driver in over two years.

Dodgy drive or SATA problem? I could kill the guy who told me to get a SATA writer seeing as the best thing in the world - you know who you are... :RANT:
 
Sounds like a dodgy drive, Chris. If it was the SATA connection it would keep cutting out or wouldn't show up at all.

SATA is definitely the best way to go and NVIDIA SATA controllers are compatible with most drives so it doesn't sound like it's that and that was good advice. Personally, I've only ever gone for LG and LiteOn drives, never had one fail on me yet. Pioneer drives are cheaper, but they break easily. LG/LiteOn drives are ultra durable and perfect for burning absolutely anything (including DVD-ROM disks :PIRATE:). Also there's no faffing about you just plug the thing in and it works, no upgrading needed.
 
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I've got a nice Sony DL burner brand new here Chris you can have for £25. Save me returning it.....
 
I only went for Pioneer because everybody recommends them. I did have someone recommend Lite-On to me but the drive that exploded was a Lite-On and I've had nothing but trouble with it, it would take 60 minutes to do a DVD-RW and when I'd come to look at the disc again, the first two things on it would work, everything else would give you an error.

What's weird with this Pioneer is that it will recognise discs, it's just that when you eject them it will say you've inserted an "Audio CD" again (even when you've ejected the tray it thinks there's a disc in the drive). Such a strange bastard of a problem.

Tim, I'll bear that in mind but I'm going to have to ask this guy for a refund or a swap, I'll keep you up-to-date...
 
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Jesus, Chris, I googled to try and find info and both possible leads turned out to be you asking for help just in different forums. Spammer.
 
I bought a LiteOn external DVD burner yesterday and so far its been brilliant.

£45 in argos but probably cheaper online,i needed it there and then.
 
Right fellas, problem. I have my pc on pretty much 24/7 for two or 3 weeks at a time. However, I have this strange problem as, living here in Japan it can get humid. My pc has frozen on a few occasions so I took the side cover off and aimed a huge fan at it. Worked for quite a while but even tho its not humid now it freezes without it on, or when I boot up I sometimes get a disc read error. Any ideas? Something to do with the hdd? same thing happened last year and i got it replaced but this year it is out of warranty. help appreciated.
 
thanks - I do wonder if its more of a software problem more than hardware as xp demands a disk check as well. Will go and see if can get a dehumidifier here though. Never knew such things existed!
 
hey guys,

wanted a bit of advice. I'm wanting to upgrade my laptop hard drive(HP Pavillion DV2815ea, only about a yr old).
What hard drives do I look for, looking for about 500gb or so.

Would i then be able to use get some sort of holder/device that would make my old hard drive an external USB hard drive?
 
why don't you just buy an external hdd now, and have the operating system off the internal hdd and everything else run off the external

would probably be cheaper that way
 
I would but cos I only have 2 usb slots I dont plug in my external devices much. Would be much easier to just slot in a bigger hdd so when i download stuff i won't need to go through the hassle of transferring
 
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