Lost the ability to burn DVD disks in Premiere Elements

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November 7, 2022
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I don't know what happened by Premiere elements used to have the ability to brun my DVD movies from right in the program. However, PE seems to have lost the ability to detect my drive. I can burn an ISO and the use another program to burn the DVD, tedious and annoying. Has Adobe fixed this yet? I can't seem to find an answer anywhere, just similar complaints. I know my drive and driver are ok, because they are detected and work just fine in other programs.

I am on Win 11 64 Bit using a Lenovo 510A-15ICB desktop with 8GB ram, Core I5-9400CPU; DVD is a PLDS DVD-RW DA8AESH; driver Microsoft 10.0.22621.1 Build 160101.0800

Thanks if anyone can help.

Oh, I uninstalled the driver, restarted the PC and let it reinstall the drive. I also went to the trouble of uninstalling and reinstalling PE. Zip-zero-nada as far as any positive effects.

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John T Smith

Community Expert

I have PrE2021.4 (version 19) but I have never even tried to go direct to a DVD... I prefer to create an ISO and use ImgBurn to have more control over the burning process

If your direct burn used to work and stopped working I am 99% sure that the problem is due to a Microsoft update that changed "something" that is making PrE not see your DVD drive

You say you let Windows reinstall the DVD driver... have you gone to the vendor site to check for a driver?

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

"If your direct burn used to work and stopped working I am 99% sure that the problem is due to a Microsoft"

I had a cherished Blu-Ray burner that I used with Premiere Elements several versions back. A Windows update killed the connection to it. A thorough search provided no new drivers or other ways to fix it. I transitioned to sharing my videos with Vimeo and thumb drives. Most of my family were watching on phones and tablets anyway. Sticking to Blu-Ray limited my audience.

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Bill Sprague

Community Expert

You didn't say what version of Premiere Elements you have. The current 2023 version does not include DVD burning. It was dropped from the Apple version a year or two ago. DVDs have slipped off the Adobe radar screen!

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Photobob702Author

Participant

I have version 19.0 (20211007.daily.2243969)
So if burning was dropped from 2023, apparently Adobe must have included an update that disabled DVD burning in 2021. I must say, that was a short-sighted move in my opinion. DVDs are not gone. There are still plenty of people out there using them.
Since burning has been there it all along, how could it hurt to keep it?
Thanks for your response. I suppose I'll keep creating ISOs then, or maybe move to a new platform. Or, since I still have older versions available, maybe I'll go backwards

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Steve Grisetti

Legend

We can't speak for Adobe's motives in reducing features like DVD production - but most likely it has to do with licensing cost vs. demand for DVD software. They apparently felt the demand for DVD software wasn't great enough to justify the feature anymore.

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