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[leftyjlaj]

Does anyone use this program? It came with my DVD burner and Ive heard great things about it. It works good for me. I even use it to print out my DVD covers. I want to do the stomps now but I had some questions. Hopefully someone one here uses it or has enough knowledge to help me out.


what kind of paper do I need to get? - I know that in the Nero program it has one disc space to put a picture in it but all of the paper comes with 2 disc spots on it. How does this affect it?

and will I need any software besides Nero? - I was reading up on it online and read some things about needing software to use some of the paper. But that was a review and I dont know if they have Nero too, or they were just bitching.



I hope my questions made sense. Once I get the hang of it, it will be easy for me, but I want to go get paper and get this thing started.

[Kathlib the Prophet]

I use Nero all the time, but not for printing covers or burning LightScribe disc stomps. For those things, I use CoverXP and Droppix Label Maker Deluxe respectively.

You mean those stickers you put on discs? The paper comes with two disc spots, but you use the paper twice--so you can get two stomps from one sheet of paper. However, printing onto those stickers is really inaccurate. It's damn near impossible to get the printer calibrated right so that the stomps are printed exactly on the middle of the disc, and also the extra weight of the stickers makes discs wear out faster. It's not really a recommended practice. Printable discs and LightScribe discs are much, much better (and LightScribe is cheaper in the long run, because it doesn't use any ink).

[leftyjlaj]

yeah. i meant that kind of paper. i just cant figure out how im going to put the paper in there and get ONE disc stomp to go on either of the TWO disc spots on the paper.

[leftyjlaj]

haha. a cover artist.... writing on dvds??? lol. its cool. im sure eventually i will end up doing that. but i just got a new printer and its like a toy. it will get old eventually.

and going to look at both programs you guys suggested now.

thanks again.

[leftyjlaj]

for anyone using nero or any other software. is there a way to take a dvd of a show and put the contents onto your computer to upload and send someone a link? hope this question makes sense.

[Kathlib the Prophet]

You can always just drag and drop the contents of the DVD to get the VIDEO_TS folder, or you could use Nero to burn an image file of the disc's contents onto your hard drive.

[leftyjlaj]

cool. ill try that.


you guys were right though. i bought some disc stomp sticker paper and it is impossible to get it lined up right. frustrating as hell. you would think with todays technology they could figure out a way to line it up right. i guess ill have to try out the lightscrib printers.

[leftyjlaj]

so nero shit the bed. for some reason the last few dvds i have attempted to make have come out bad. the audio and video are like a second apart, so there is a delay. this has happened with different shows too.

does anyone have any suggestions? should i uninstall it, then reinstall it?

would that even work? could it be my dvd burner? it dont think it is cause i downloaded another software for burning dvds and it didnt have the delay. BUT it wouldnt let me make a menu or create chapters, and when i tried to play it back in a dvd player it said there are no playback options on this disc.


does anyone know of any good programs that i can make menus, create chapters and burn dvds?



this is very frustrating because my harddrive doesnt have a whole lot of memory so i put stuff on disc as soon as i download it. so this has stopped my downloading... and i just cant have that.




thanks in advance for the help.