Help! VS10 Keeps Crashing During DVD Creation

[robgold]

I have a Sony High Def HC3 camcorder, and have been following to the letter the recommended procedure on this board for editing a project from an HD camcorder and then down-converting for DVD. During the DVD creation process, however, the program keeps crashing when creating the menu.

I have spent an entire day trying to create a DVD (it takes 2 hours just to get to the point where it crashes) and I still get the windows error message. It does not give me a specific error code, it just says the program has experienced a problem and asks me if I want to report the problem to Microsoft.

The only thing I can think is that I have included some mp4 clips from my digital camera as part of the project. Does that change how I should be creating my project. This is getting extremely frustrating and I am almost ready to just give up. Someone help me please!

[sjj1805]

Are you attempting to author the DVD with files still on the VideoEditor timeline?

If so try creating DVD compliant MPEG2 files first and then clear the timeline. Start the Create Disc Procedure and then import those video clips.

For further details please view:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27

[jchunter]

I have a Sony High Def HC3 camcorder,...
The only thing I can think is that I have included some mp4 clips from my digital camera as part of the project.

Yes, including mpeg4 clips poisoned the project. VS can't edit any of the highly compressed video such as Divx, Xvid, mpeg4, etc. without choking. You can transcode mpeg2 or DV TO these formats but you can't edit them or use them as source clips. When you try to burn a disk, VS has to convert these formats to DVD compliant mpeg2 and gets lost in the weeds.

If you stick to your HDV video clips and jpeg slides, everything will work fine.