UVS9 Crashes when rendering jpg images

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Wed May 03, 2006 8:49 am

Hi,

I'm using UVS9 to produce a DVD of some wedding photos but it keeps crashing whilst rendering the jpg's.

It does some but then crashes at about 7%. I've removed the image and tried to render it again but it just crashes later on at 9% on a different photo.

I'm using fades between the images with some using the pan and zoom feature - but p&z wasn't applied to the images it crashes on.

I don't want to have to remove a load of images (there's 125 in total) because I have purposly selected the images in the project.

I'm outputting the project to an MPEG2 file. The images are fairly high res 1600 x 1200 if I remeber correctly - they might be slightly higher.

Anybody got any suggestions?

I'm going to convert them to BMP to see if that makes a difference.

Cheers

TGG.

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed May 03, 2006 10:50 am

Hi TGG, welcome to the forums..

First please complete your system information located in your Profile. This will help us troubleshoot your problem, now and in the future.

Next you might want to view any one or all of the following:

Read This First Sticky

Recommended Procedures

Ron P.

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Wed May 03, 2006 11:40 am

Hi Vidoman,

Thanks for the warm welcome

I've updated my profile and printed the Recommended Procedures off and I'll go through it when I get home tonight.

Watch this space...

Thanks

TGG.

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:34 pm

TGG,

It shouldn't matter if the photos are JPG, or bitmap. The size may be the issue. While VS should handle large images, having images much over the resolution size of your video project is not necessary. Unless you are doing some zooming in on them. Even then your image sizes may be too much.

TV and computers can only display a specific amount of data on the screen. So while you may have an image that is 1600 x 1200, they can only display 720 x 480 NTSC or 720 x 576 PAL. Large photo resolutions are intended more for print, then display on a screen.

However I also use a 1600 x 1200 resolution and have not had the crashing problems. So I will then ask if you have anything running in the background while editing or creating your DVD? Try to shut down all background apps, such as antivirus, spyware, screensavers, internet connections. This will allow more resources for VS.

Then lastly did you follow the recommended procedure? If you captured your video, edited, then went to Share>Create Disc, having a project in the timeline, that may be why VS is crashing on you. Always create a DVD-Compliant video file First. Then clear your timeline (File New Project), then go directly to Share>Create Disc (do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not add anything to the timeline

. Then add the DVD Compliant MPEG you just created. From there continue to create your menus, chapters, titles etc... and then you can Create an ISO or DVD Folders, or Burn to disc. Creating the DVD Folders (burn to Hard Drive), you are able to test your finished product before actually burning a disc. Then if all checks out ok, you can burn the disk from the DVD folders created, and burn as many copies of the disc as you like. The same goes for the ISO image file.

Hope that helps, and didn't confuse you too much...

Ron P.

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:07 pm

Thanks Vidoman

I will certainly give your suggestions a go when I get home.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Cheers

TGG.

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Thu May 04, 2006 8:25 pm

Hi Vidoman,

I'm still having problems

I'm not too sure what you mean by "Always create a DVD-Compliant video file First. Then clear your timeline (File New Project), then go directly to Share>Create Disc (do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not add anything to the timeline Smile . Then add the DVD Compliant MPEG you just created."

I've already created the project (which I have spent many hours on) and saved it, but not rendered it as a MPEG because UVS keeps crashing during the creation of the MPEG. I don't understand how I can render the MPEG with an empty timeline

because my project needs to be in it.

I've made sure I have no other apps running (AV, firewall, etc etc) but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

I'm not sure what to do next

Cheers

TGG.

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Thu May 04, 2006 9:45 pm

Hmm. I've just successfully managed to create an uncompressed AVI which is quite large (26gb!) but at least I'll be able to convert this and burn it to DVD.

TGG.

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:07 pm

Double hmm. I've just watched the AVI and the music finishes about 5 mins sooner than it should even though in VS it's perfect ????

If I render the project again but at a lower res, will this fix this and still look good when I convert it to DVD?

Cheers

TGG.

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri May 05, 2006 12:51 am

Hi TGG,

I don't know if you have read the recommended procedures yet, which provides a proven step by step protocol so as to minimize any problems.

1. CAPTURE your video, preferably using Firewire, to DV-AVI. The format (NTSC or PAL) depends on where you live.

2. EDIT, your video, with transitions, trimming, titles, music, voice-over narration, pictures and/or videos on the overlay track.

3. CREATE a DVD-Compliant video file (MPEG2). To do this with your Project in the timeline go to Share>Create Video. Then depending on where you live, it will be either a PAL DVD or NTSC DVD.

4. Start a new project FILE > NEW PROJECT. This is where you don't put anything in the timeline. Go to SHARE > CREATE DISC. Now bring in the DVD-Compliant MPEG that you created in Step #3.

5. Now you can add titles, chapters, menus, etc.. for your DVD.

6. Once you have your DVD Menu(s) created, then you can either burn to Disc or Create DVD_Folders, or Create an ISO file. If you choose to Burn to Hard drive (Create DVD_Folders), you will be able to use those to burn a disc. You can also burn a disc from an ISO file if you choose that. The ISO file contains all the DVD menus etc.. and can be used by any DVD burning application to burn a DVD...

Hope that cleared it up. I appologize for confusing you. I made an assumption that you had read or was going to read the Recommended Procedures. The don't pass go ect... is just an old "Monopoly" game saying....

Ron P.

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:45 am

Cheers Vidoman,

I had read the recommended procedure (I printed if of) but I was unclear and to be honest - still am.

This is what I've done:

1. CAPTURE your video - I'm using purely still images

2. EDIT - I've added simple fades with a few pan and zooms with MP3 music

3. CREATE a DVD-Compliant video file (MPEG2) - This crashes using MPEG output. I have changed this to uncompressed AVI which appears to work. I've lowered the resolution to 640x480 which has produced a 500mb avi file. I'm not sure how this is going to look on a TV

4. Start a new project FILE > NEW PROJECT - This is the confusing bit, but I think I understand. Seems a bit odd that UVS should have bugs in this part of the program, but hey, you guys are the experts and I trust what your saying. I've not actually got this far yet (it was passed midnight by the time I had got the AVI produced) but I'll give this a go tonight.

5. & 6. Not got there yet.

Thanks for your persistence!

TGG.

Post by **lancecarr** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:18 am

Ron's probably asleep so I will step in until he is awake!
I just noticed in your last post you mention you have been adding MP3 files.
Quite a few users have reported problems stemming from the use of MP3's especially when the files were created using the "LAME" codec rather than the Fraunhofer (I think I spelled that right!) codec.
As Ron pointed out, VS crashing on JPEGs is very unusual.
The safer method is to convert the MP3s to wav files before using them in VS.
I think if you did that (convert MP3s to WAVs) then render to a DVD compliant MPEG2 file you may be fine.
After that you do the whole start a new project go to share etc. etc.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:51 am

Since your project is all still photos, I would also set Frame Based as the Field Order for your mpeg-2 file. While you may have produced an AVI file successfully, it will still have to be converted to an mpeg-2 anyway, since to burn a video DVD, you must use mpeg-2 files. But if you go back a couple of steps, use a different audio format (such as . WAV instead of MP3) and go to Share > Create Video File > DVD, then use the Edit option to set the Field Order to Frame Based, you may have a better chance of success...

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:57 am

Thanks Lance & Ken for jumping in to help

TGG,

To be able to burn a DVD, the video file must meet the DVD standard specifications, ie; MPEG2 etc.. So the AVI file will still have to be encoded to an MPEG2, and the burn module (where you create DVD folders or burn your disc) is not very reliable in doing this. That's why the Create Video File step.

Lance is correct, that Ulead Video Studio has issues with MP3, so it is best to convert your audio files to WAV before inserting them into Video Studio. To do this, if you don't have an audio program, try Audacity.

So convert your audio to wav, then insert them into your project, and see if Ulead still crashes when trying to render your MPEG2 file. We do need to get that resolved, inorder to burn a DVD...

Ron P.

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Fri May 05, 2006 11:19 am

Cheers everyone

I'll convert the MP3 to wavs tonight and give it another go at producing the MPEG2.

I was going to use Nero or WinAVI to conver the AVI to DVD before burning it to disc.

Thanks again for everyone's contributions, I'll post the outcome later tonight

Cheers

TGG.

thegasgranny · Post by **thegasgranny** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:42 pm

Phew, I've finally managed to burn the project to DVD

I ended up Converting the AVI to an MPEG2 using WinAVI then I used UVS (as per the recommended procedures

) to create a menu and burn it to disk.

The upshot of all my toil is I have learnt quite a bit and found allot of resources (you guys included) to help me get the results I wanted.

Thanks allot.

TGG.