Im editing with Pinacle 12 now and I save all my edited movies a MPGs with the SAVE FILE tab. I also save a file for playback on a DVD player under the DVD TAB.. it saves them as VIDEO_TS.IFO files. However it doesnt let me name them. It saves them all the same.. VIDEO_TS.IFO.. Whenever I try to put them into my DVD making software it says that file is the same as one I already chose.. When I rename them , it somehow corrupts them and they wont play or burn.. Anyone have a clue how to get around this ?? Id like to burn several hunts onto one DVD for playback on Dvd players..

Thanks

I'm not sure if this helps because I am not familiar with Pinnacle. I use power director to edit with. It also has the ability to burn dvd's. I can take a finished movie that is in HD format WMV and add it to my timeline in my edit. I don't make any changes just press the DVD button and it opens the burner. I can add as many as I want to the burner. Now this is not the way I burn DVDs. I'm just saying that I have found it will work this way. My burn program which was included with power director will let me add files from any location. Maybe if you open the burner than try to add your clips from your original location instead of saving a seperate copy. Don't know! Hope I have helped a little.

Try naming them w/o changing the file type name. (Heatleys hunt .IFO) or (Heatleys hunt VIDEO_TS.IFO) One of these 2 should work.

SEAOSR.. I dragged the vids into the timeline like you suggested then rerendered them as one long vid. Takes a while longer but it worked.. THanks


LEE.. I tried renaming the files by right cliking on them and renaming.. Ill actually type the .IFO at the end and see if it works.. Thanks

It does the same thing when I rename my .avi files and don't use the file extension. I went back and put a .avi on them and un corrupted them.

To be honest the Nokia Video Convertor used at its max res gives unequalled results, even better than M3 imo. The files sizes are a lot bigger but the quality reproduction is great.

I'm running pinnacle 14 and video pro x2 and i also have the cs4 adobe suite.I use pinnacle the most because of user friendly and intuitive programing.But it doesnt do everything i want so once in awhile i go to my other programs for those tasks.love pinn 14ultimate hd.

" you said, Im editing with Pinacle 12 now and I save all my edited movies a MPGs with the SAVE FILE tab."

I'm no pro so forgive and correct me if i get some things wrong.
I believe the only thing you can save by going to file, which is located in the top left,where the file,edit, view etc… tabs are, and then save is the project which has the extension of .stx in pinn 14. this is your unrendered project that is on the time line..from the project you can render your project to all sorts of things.the choices at this step in the make movie tab are disc,file,tape,web.the choices under those catagories are many.



“You said,I also save a file for playback on a DVD player under the DVD TAB.. it saves them as VIDEO_TS.IFO files.”

The only ways i know to make video_TS.ifo files using pinn12 are to go to the make movie section then select the disc tab.then render what ever is on the time line.you have three choices here.
either render/create the disc content then burn to disc,
or just create the disc content but dont burn to disc.
or burn to disc from previously created disc content.
When you do the first two steps you need to either create a folder to put the disc content in or pinn will pick one out for you if you let pinn pick it out you might not ever find the files again so I would suggest you create a folder and direct pinn to put the disc content files in there.After pinn creates the disc content you will have two folders inside the folder you created one is audio TS which is always empty and the other will be video TS which will have .bup,.ifo and .vob files

The the .ifo file contains the information about the organization of tracks, menus, chapters, subtitles on the disc.

The .bup file is a backup of the ifo file on a DVD ,The BUP files are used in the event that the corresponding IFO file is unreadable, perhaps due to a scratch on the surface of the disc.

And the .vob files.vob stands for dvd video object.It basically contains the actual movie data.vob can contain video,audio,subtitle,and menu contents multiplexed together.

Video_ts.ifo files are not video files but information files that tell the program how to arrainge all the components of your video onto the disc.

“You said However it doesnt let me name them. It saves them all the same.. VIDEO_TS.IFO.. Whenever I try to put them into my DVD making software it says that file is the same as one I already chose.. When I rename them , it somehow corrupts them and they wont play or burn..”
I believe and I could be wrong but but programs that create/burn dvd discs look for a file called video_TS.ifo to get the information as to how to organise/burn the video onto the disc.so if you rename the .ifo file. When the program looks for the file and cant find the video_ts.ifo file because you renamed it, it will not be able to create the disc.
The way I organise my dvd files is by naming the FOLDER that I put the .bup,.ifo and .vob files in.
You can acatually play .vob files.
Id like to burn several hunts onto one DVD for playback on Dvd players..

If you still have the projects that are saved as .stx on pinn 14 cant remember the extension pinn 12 uses.
If you still have the oringianl projects you can just combine all the parts that you want on the time line and create a accumulative dvd.

Or you can make a file of each project I would save it as a mpeg2 file then put all the files from all the hunts on the time line and recreate on dvd which will be a composite of all the hunts. then you can put transitions and titles in-between the different hunts.

Or you can locate the .vob files not .ifo they will have no labeling as to what they contain,they will just be labeled
vts_01_1.vob
vts_01_2.vob
vts_01_3.vob

so you wont know what video is in the containers but you can open them them up in the edit mode of pinn 12 drop them into the time line and then if you want do some editing or add titles, transitions and re-render as a dvd.
Oh will just my one cents worth.