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PC burning of digital photos to DVD with NERO

mgorey
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Feb 14, 2006, 6:57 PM

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Hi: I'm a school teacher and amateur digital photographer; my tech coordinator colleague recommended that I pose my question on this forum. I would appreciate any help that one or more of you are willing to offer!

Here's my equipment: To use with my Dell 2400 Dimension desktop, I recently purchased an I/O Magic External USB 2.0 DVD +/- RW/+/-R burner so that I can save copies of my digital photos and movies on DVD. I installed the NERO DVD burning software that came with the I/O Magic burner. I am burning photos taken with an 8 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 8800.

Here's my problem: For some reason I am unable to burn more than say three or four photos or three one to two minute videos to a DVD, thus leaving the vast majority of the available space on the DVD-R disk empty. When I try to burn five or more photos, the burning process interrupts and a dialogue box reading "the burning process failed" pops up. When I read the report analyzing why the process failed, a lack of computer memory is cited.

The total physical memory of my computer is 260096; the available memory is 115920; the system cache is 168048. The kernel memory is total--53948; the paged memory is 39172; the nonpaged memory is 14776.
My tech coordinator colleague looked at the numbers and thought that there should be plenty of memory to do what I'm attempting, burn 10 or 100 photos if I wish, to a DVD disk.

I have had partial success; that is, when I've burned four photos and put the DVD in the TV player the images look great. But only being able to burn four photos indicates something's amiss.

Does anyone have any ideas as to where the problem might be?

Thanks in advance!

Mark

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Feb 15, 2006, 1:03 PM

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Hi Mark,

I use NERO, not for doing photos, but can offer several suggestions:

1) RESIZE those 8-megapixel photos prior to importing them into Nero. DVD video has a fixed frame size of 720 x 480 pixels, regardless of what your original photo dimensions are. Video is "72 dpi", so go ahead and batch them to something closer to 720 x480. Remember to write new pics to a different folder so as not to "overwrite" the originals!

2) Looks like you have 256mb of RAM, is this right? Not enough for operations like hi-res photo editing and DVD burning. You should have 512mb minimum. 256mb is barely enough to keep Windows happy, let alone any other apps.

3) Your external burner uses USB 2.0 - does your PC have 2.0, or the older, slower USB 1.1? May not be fast enough to sustain necessary data transfer for a successful burn.

So, add another memory stick and hopefully that is enough to solve your issue.

Good luck

Jeff
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arkychevyboy
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Feb 15, 2006, 4:57 PM

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There is no need to resize the photos if he is trying to burn a DVD Data disk.

arkychevyboy

ppatton
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Feb 15, 2006, 5:33 PM

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doesn't sound like it as he is trying to play it on his tv

faqvideo
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Mar 5, 2006, 9:04 PM

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I would not play with resolution change.
If you DVD player is able to play photos in general, you don't need to resize them in order to burn on DVD-R.

Insufficient RAM may be the problem and insufficient hard drive space may be another. In order to try to resolve both allocate extra virtual memory on hard drive. See if it works.

1. Go to Settings => Control Panel => System

2. Click on Advanced Tab.

3. In the section Performance click on Settings.

4. Go to Advanced Tab once more, then press Change button in the bottom section (Virtual memory).

5. Check Radio button in Custom size and try to allocate 1000 or 2000 MB as a virtual addition to your existing RAM.

6. If you have enough room on your hard drive it will do.

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