Canot finalize dvd

Sometimes mine does this when the battery needs to be charged.

I have this video camera. It seemed like a good deal at $200 at Christmas time. It is suppose to be able to record on DVD-R, +R disks. (re-writable and write disks) I have had issues with not being able to finalize the disk. I found you needed to keep at least 5 minutes on the disk to finalize it. It will not play in any DVD player or a Computer till it is finalized. The info stored on the disk is in RAW form. Finalizing it will create a "lead in" and "lead out" and a menu for your computer and/or DVD player to understand. A large part of whether it will play or not, is what is your DVD Player or DVD Drive on you computer capable of? DVD Players usually will play anything that has been finalized, same with your DVD drive on your computer. BUT! Yep there's a but, sorry. DVD players and DVD Drives sometimes can only read one type of disk. Either a DVD-R or DVD+R, some may not be able to read a re-writable disk too. Look through your manuals on your Laptop and your DVD Player(s) and try to match the correct media (i.e. DVD-R or DVD+R Write or Re-Writable) I found that between my PC and my DVD Player, that DVD+R would work without a hitch for both electonics. Download that software that Samsung gave you in with the video camera. It may end up loading the driver software to help you're computer to recognize the video DVD you are trying to play. Oh, and make sure you really do have a DVD player/burner drive installed. I went to play a movie on my wife's Laptop and found it came with a CD drive and no DVD drive. That's not what I ordered and I was about a year to late to complain to the company. :( Hope that helps.

is that a 30-min disc??maybe you used up the whole 30 min that's why you cant finalize it..you should have at least 5min remaining tike on the disc

Sounds like not correctly finalize??

Finalizing - try keeping it plugged and finalizing

ALSO
you can pnly use the roxi program to upload files
It came with that CD
so install the program
and if you want to use Windows Movie Maker
or something else like that
export the file form roxio program

Hello, I can watch and enjoy my DVD on the camcorder only.
I have finalized it, but when I take it out to play on my laptop or any computer it doesn't work. It says it is blank, but I know it isn't because when I put it back in the camcorder it works fine.
I have also tried connecting the camcorder to my computer and I still can't get any of the video off. Please help!

You can view it through the windows media player. Open my computer, find the file in your dvd drive. Right click and select open with windows media player.
To do any editing you will need to convert it from a vro file to mpeg

There's no way you can continue the finalization of the disc, the disc has been marked as finalized already, even a single power fluctuation when you are using ac power adaptor can affect the disc finalizing process, so it is better to use battery when disc finalizing

Make sure your camcorder is oon camera mode(when you can shoot videos) then finalize shoukd be written in black.

I know it won't play in a dvd player till it is finalized. Leave it in camera mode, hit menu, and scroll down till you see the option to finalize. If you finalize it, it should play in a dvd player. I am having a problem with my camera(same model) where it won't finalize the disc. Any help out there?