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| Thread ID: 27976 | 2002-12-08 00:18:00 | What does "finalise" mean in regard to burning a CD in Nero? | Clueless (181) | Press F1 |
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| 104110 | 2002-12-08 00:18:00 | I've just burnt some rather large files onto CD, the files just scraped in within the magic 700 meg limit. Nero gave a warning that the files were to large to burn onto CD unless Nero "finalised" the CD now. I tried the disk, and there appears to be nothing missing from the file, so what does this actually mean? .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 104111 | 2002-12-08 00:40:00 | Finalising a CD - Well if you finalise a CD, it means you can no longer write to it. If you left the "session open", then you could (supposedly, I've never managed) write to it again and again. In this way acting similar to a CDR-W. If you don't finalise a CD, I don't think it will woork on another computer. (again, not sure) rads:) |
raddersnz (684) | ||
| 104112 | 2002-12-08 00:42:00 | finalise is usually to make the cd so you can't write any more data onto it later. eg you may have a seesion on the disk (closed session) and then write another session to the dik later. if the disk is to full you can't add another session on to it, which is why it gets finnalised......roughly put that is ;-) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 104113 | 2002-12-08 00:49:00 | OK... um well i still don't quite get it.. I never write in open session, it's just one of those things i put on the "why bother" list. It makes little sense to me that one can finalise and then write the data... but hey atleast i have some misleading idea as to what just happened, rather than no idea at all! .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 104114 | 2002-12-08 00:57:00 | you can write multiple sessions to a disk(provided each session is closed) unless the the disk is finalised which means no more data can be writen to disk. for max compatibilty with cd roms finalise the disk. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 104115 | 2002-12-08 01:17:00 | Let me try to explain. Nero allows you to create a multisession CD when you first create a CD. say you only put 100MB or data onto the cd. in the future when you get more data you want to put on to the CD, you can choose continue multisession CD, you then get the old data from the CD and then put in the new data as well. Nero seems to know that the first lot of data is there and so only puts on the new stuff. However if you finalise the CD then you can not put any more data onto the cd. I don't know what Nero does to do this I guess it just fills up the rest of the cd or something. it isn't important how it does it, I think the only reason for it is to somewhat protect your data. I hope you understand that better now. Cheers |
NathanTheKind (472) | ||
| 104116 | 2002-12-08 02:56:00 | Closing/finalizing the disk, stops the index track being written to, therefore the disk will be closed (finished) or something like that I guess. A |
Archibald (180) | ||
| 104117 | 2002-12-08 03:17:00 | I spose the bit i didnt get is why, as a responce to it being close to the 700meg limit, it finalised before it wrote the .mpeg file itself. Normally i see it write the files, and then the lead in/lead out. I am assuming the lead in/ lead out is the "index" or what ever data finalises the disk Perhaps getting the index (or whatever it is) over with by saying "there is one file and it is XXXX, end of story" leaves a definate amount of room for the single 690meg .mpeg file. Or am i whey off track here? .Clueless |
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