Combining projects

nblecher · Post by **nblecher** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:24 pm

I have captured 3 DV tapes as separate projects. I would like to combine all three tapes as one new project without loosing the scenes in the timeline. The purpose would be to then edit the project and create 1 dvd. Is this possible using VS9?

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 6:34 pm

Hi Nblecher,

This is easier then what it seems..

EDITED

1. You have 3 clips, (however you have them as seperate projects). You should still have 3 seperate video clips on your system.
a. In each project go to share>Create Video File, and choose Same as Project Settings (DV-AVI).
2. Start a New Project. Then insert the 3 DV-AVI files from your projects. To keep the scenes seperate, just insert a black color clip, a transistion like Cross-Fade between the clips.

3. Now go to Share>Create Video File, and choose NTSC or PAL DVD. This will combine the three clips into one, in a DVD-Compliant video file.

4. Then clear your timeline (new project), with nothing on the timeline go to Share>Create Disk. Then insert the DVD Compliant video file you just created from the 3...

5. Build your menus, and either burn to disk, or uncheck the Burn to Disk, and click on the drop down arrow for more options. Then you can select Create Video_TS folders or Create ISO file.

Creating a Video_TS folder allows you to check your work before committing to burning the disk.

Ron P.

nblecher · Post by **nblecher** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:49 am

Thanks Vidoman for the advice. I have started to convert the first project into an AVI file, but I have run into another problem, which I'm sure you can help. The process of creating a video file start and progresses awhile and then I get a message "Insufficient memory" and that confuses me completely. I have 1 GB of RAM, 58.6 GB of free space on the drive with the working folder and 116 GB on the drive where the final output is to reside. Where is my insufficient memory?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:20 am

How large (or small) is your pagefile? (otherwise known as a swapfile).
What else is running on your computer?

Press the [ctrl] [alt] [del] keys together and check the memory usage graph and the number of running processes.
Please complete your system specifications on your profile page.

nblecher · Post by **nblecher** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:20 pm

I checked the swapfile and I have 7175mb of swap file. Nothing else is running on the system but VS9.

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:42 pm

The 58 gig working drive could be the problem. It depends on the file sizes you are working with, which depends on if you captured to DV (13 gig per hour) or Full Uncompressed AVI (65 gig per hour).

If you have 3 DV clips each 1 hour long, that's 13 x 3 = 39 gig just in the file size of the clips. I would then suspect that you would need at least 39 x 2 = 78 gig free space, to edit the video clips.

Try changing the working folder to the larger hard drive and see if you get any better results.

Ron P.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:57 am

nblecher wrote:I checked the swapfile and I have 7175mb of swap file. Nothing else is running on the system but VS9.

I think you need to double check that statement.
either you mean 7175kb (thats 7MB) which is too small or if indeed you are using 7175mb (thats 7GB) then its way too big.

nblecher · Post by **nblecher** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:14 pm

Let me try to understand. Are you saying that too much is not good and that I should change the swap file to something lower? Why would too much space cause an insufficient memory error? I'm confused.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:00 pm

Please view:
All you ever wanted to know about pagefiles

nblecher · Post by **nblecher** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:09 pm

My work files are on a drive with 134GB free space. The output file is on a drive with 81GB free space. When I try to convert the first project to AVI, I noticed while monitoring that the preview screen has completed the whole project but the system says that 91% of the project was rendered. It is at this point that I get the "Insuffient memory" message. Is there any correlation between preview screen having completed the viewing of the project and the rendering not having completed?