Insufficient space previewing

ericas · Post by **ericas** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:34 pm

When I try to preview my video I get the message "Insufficient space on this drive". There is 67GB free space on the drive so that is surely not the problem. When I look at what happens at C:/MSP6 Preview Files, the .avi file goes to 1.042.058kb but stops there. What is the problem? I did not limit hard disk usage under File/Preferences/Preview.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:59 pm

How big is the source file? When did you defrag your drive the last time? Did you empty your preview temp folder prior to this project?

ericas · Post by **ericas** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:06 am

The video is about 50 minutes, the avi-file about 400.000kb and the .000 files about 10GB. The drive is quite new so I havent seen needs to defrag yet. There are no other files in the preview. I use Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6.0 and my system is Windows XP. Is that a problem?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:37 am

Where did the AVI file come from? 400 MB for 50 minutes seems a bit small. Is it DivX or some other exotic file format?

Don't know what you mean with the .000 file, but around 10 GB for 50 min DV-AVI seems about right.

Can you explain step by step what you are trying to do?

ericas · Post by **ericas** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:05 pm

In order to look at the video so that I can edit it, I open it (file/open and then I choose the .dvp file). After that I push the play-button in the down-left corner of the preview box. The picture starts moving in the source-box and it tells estimated time, elapsed time remaining time, free disk space etc. Earlier Unlead did this for the whole video and after that I could watch any part of the video by choosing a spot to start at the timeline. Today Unlead never finnish the first phase, but stops after about 13 minutes (of about 50minutes) It seems it is trying to create a preview file, but some restriction somewhere stops this process and makes Unlead belive there is not disk space enough, even though there is more than plenty of it.