Movie missing the first second on final DVD?

laer wrote on 2/25/2009, 10:32 AM
I created a DVD where I have a menu screen with a link to a video. Looks fine in the preview, and the final burnt DVD works as expected on a computer. However, when I played it on my home tv DVD player, the video seemed to be missing a 1/2 second or so from the front of it. Is this a fairly common occurrence? Do you normally counterattack with by adding a bit of a 'black frame' buffer for the first second of the video?

Maybe it was just a fluke... I'll be rendering and trying another burn to see if it has the same thing happen.

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/25/2009, 11:32 AM
I think the fact that the disc works fine on your computer's DVD player would indicate that the issue is with your DVD player.

DVD players vary in the way they handle home-burned DVDs. Most newer ones do play them (many older ones did not), but you can certainly increase your odds of having a good experience by using quality discs. Memorex, for instance, or notoriously inconsistent. Verbatim makes excellent discs, and I've never had a problem using them in DVD players.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/25/2009, 11:33 AM
audio or video or both?

Audio normally lags on many DVD players because it takes a fraction of a second for the ac3 decoder to kick in. using WAV stereo audio doesn't have this problem but then there's no surround sound, just two speakers.

if it's video or both, I have no clue.
autopilot wrote on 2/25/2009, 11:33 AM
I always put 3 seconds of Media Generated black at the beginning & end. Two seconds of black with one second of fade-in. Problem solved.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/25/2009, 6:33 PM
when I tried that the audio encoder still did the quick lack-of-sound because it didn't load up yet for some reason. But it may work on newer players (this was a player from a few years ago).
laer wrote on 2/26/2009, 8:20 AM
Hello, guys...

I did a few copies of the project, and got different results.

There's no sync issue, but in one of the versions, the first fraction of a second of the audio gets clipped. Odd thing is, the audio starts (intentionally, in the project) a beat after the video starts... so even if the first bit got clipped, it wouldn't be an issue... but oddly enough, it still does! It ends up just being the first note of the music getting a bit clipped. The video seems fine (fades up from black). In another version, it's a bit better.

The DVD player I'm using to test it is new, but I totally hear you about different performance on different units. Works perfect on the computer, though... so at least I know that it burned properly.

Yup, it was a stereo wav file (exported from Cubase.... it was music I composed for the video).

I'm using TDK DVDs, but I also have high quality archival discs as well that I'm using. Ya, I totally avoid Memorex, among others.

Just kind of ironic that I had the music start a beat in (and not right from the start), and it ends up getting clipped! No biggie... I was considering (as suggested) putting black and silence in as a header... I just didn't have time to rerender this all, as I was racing the clock to get this done. I tried inserting a black clip before the video in DVDA, but for some reason I couldn't push the video clip forward to make space for the black.... Something simple, I'm sure, but I just couldn't figure out why it wouldn't let me move it.

No biggie... Just being picky. Next time I'll know to put some extra header into my rendered video.

Just wondering if any of you guys had this issue before, and what may be causing it.

Cool, thanks...
laer wrote on 2/26/2009, 8:25 AM
Oh, since I have you guys here... another related question:

I noticed that it seems to take a little bit of time before the burnt DVD ends up playing. A bit of 'chugging' first.... (a few seconds). Seems like some discs are worse than others... although I'm not sure if each disc's performance is the same each time.

Just curious what is going on there. I've had that happen before too.... burnt discs working, but taking a bit of time to start up. Any setting in DVDA that I can adjust to help that?

Figured I'd ask...