SD1 HD Writer Vista problem

I have a new Vista Ultimate PC and I am having trouble getting HD Writer to work. I did the HD Writer Vista update.

Using HD Writer everything works fine up until the point of burning the DVD. No matter what I try and burn it kicks out the DVD and gives the following error message:

HD Writer
An error occurred while the data was being processed.
(Error:105-E--2025834481)

I get this error with 2 different brands of DVD-R media and 2 different brands of DVD-R DL media. The same media burns fine with Studio and Nero. I have tried it on 2 different burners (Pioneer and LG).

I've tried short videos and long videos.

I've talked to Panasonic and they are researching it, but don't seem to have any ideas.

Despite its limited functionality I prefer HD Writer for making DVDs because it doesn't recode the video like Studio 11 does, which takes forever and degrades the quality some (I assume). So, as long as I don't have much editing to do I use it.

I can make a nicely edited AVCHD DVD with Studio 11, but it also has problems in that the menus don't play. When you insert the DVD it just starts playing - the menu just isn't there.

Nero 8 - I have yet to create an AVCHD DVD with Nero 8. The process for making menus is insane. There are Titles and Chapters. With an SD1 you get a "Title" every time you pause while filming. So, you can have quite a few Titles. You can create Chapters easily enough, but there is no way to get rid of the Titles and the Title menu seems to be set up as the root menu. I can't figure it out. Either you just can't do it or it is too hard for me. I always give up and go back to Studio.

A bit of rambling, but I'd welcome suggestions for any of the three - HD Writer, Studio 11 and Nero 8. None are are working well currently.

Also, does anyone know anything about HD Writer 2.0?

I had the same experience. What I wondered was that maybe it's expecting to burn a real Blue-Ray DVD, and not just a DVD or DVD-DL. When you think about it, these camcorders record what is essentially a Blue-Ray DVD image on the SDHC card. Burning that to a Blue-Ray DVD would be easy, since no recoding or even a directory structure need be made. A regular DVD has a very different structure and is encoded in MPEG-2 as 720x480, not AVCHD at 1440x1080.

Bye. :cool:

I had the same experience. What I wondered was that maybe it's expecting to burn a real Blue-Ray DVD, and not just a DVD or DVD-DL. When you think about it, these camcorders record what is essentially a Blue-Ray DVD image on the SDHC card. Burning that to a Blue-Ray DVD would be easy, since no recoding or even a directory structure need be made. A regular DVD has a very different structure and is encoded in MPEG-2 as 720x480, not AVCHD at 1440x1080.

Bye. :cool:

Nope, on my old XP system it works fine.

So, does it burn a conventional DVD with 720x480 16:9 content?

I have no trouble burning conventional DVDs with the HD from my camcorder with Nero 8. Nero does the transcoding down to 720x480 16:9 fairly fast.

Bye. :cool:

Nope, on my old XP system it works fine.

I have an SD1 and have not tried HD Writer 1.0 on Windows Vista. However, HD Writer works well on my Windows XP. It makes an AVCHD disk on a regular DVD-R and this disk plays on Bluray player (or PS3). HD Writer does not allow you to downgrade video to standard def.

I have also tried Nero 8 on my Windows XP to: (1) create an AVCHD disk, and (2) create a standard-def DVD. Nero 8 does these well, just took lots of time on my Pentium 4 with 2 Gb RAM.

I suspect that Windows Vista creates problems in your trials. However, without using Vista I do not know for sure.

HD Writer works fine with my XP machine, but I can'ty get it to burn any kind of DVD on my Vista machine.

My issue with Nero 8 is setting up the main menu. It is very complicated and they while I can set up my own chapters I can't get rid of the "Title's" menu it wants to create with a "title" for each segment of the movie. Since the SD1 creates a movie segment every time you hit the pause button while filming the result is a main menu with 20 or 30 "Titles", which you can't get rid of (at least I can't figure out how). It makes no sense.

I'm fairly sure Nero can consolidate multiple files into one. Essentialy creating one title out of several. Check the help or just poke around the menues.

Bye. :cool:

HD Writer works fine with my XP machine, but I can'ty get it to burn any kind of DVD on my Vista machine.

My issue with Nero 8 is setting up the main menu. It is very complicated and they while I can set up my own chapters I can't get rid of the "Title's" menu it wants to create with a "title" for each segment of the movie. Since the SD1 creates a movie segment every time you hit the pause button while filming the result is a main menu with 20 or 30 "Titles", which you can't get rid of (at least I can't figure out how). It makes no sense.

I read somewhere that Panasonic comfirmed that HD Writer 2 doesn't support SATA DVD drives - my new PC has a SATA drive so I didn't try it. Nero 8 and Pinnacle 11 both burn DVDs fine.

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My issue with Nero 8 is setting up the main menu. It is very complicated and they while I can set up my own chapters I can't get rid of the "Title's" menu it wants to create with a "title" for each segment of the movie. Since the SD1 creates a movie segment every time you hit the pause button while filming the result is a main menu with 20 or 30 "Titles", which you can't get rid of ...
After add all the video clips (m2ts files) to the project, you can merge two or more clips together by selecting them (click on the clips while holding down the SHIFT key). Make sure that the clips to be merged are all shaded indicating being selected. Then click the Merge button (icon showing two parallel film segments being merged with two arrows). Congratulation! you have the clips merged. You can use this procedure to trim down the number of items in the menu.