Mixing MPEG and AVIs equals frozen system upon export

[meshuken]

I found a solution, but just FYI...

I wanted to merge two projects in VS 10+. Each project was a mix of AVI, BMP, JPG and mp3 clips.

I elected to export the shorter project (3 minutes in length) to an MPEG2 and insert it into the longer project (a 30 minute production). So in effect, what I had was a project that was mostly AVI with an MPEG inserted in the middle of it.

Here's the thing: When I went to export the final project (the combined project) VS 10+ would go up to 99% rendered and freeze. Then I would close VS 10 and look in my folder file and there was the new MPEG waiting for me - BUT it was only 10 minutes long (should have been 30). I exported the project three times and each time VS 10 would freeze at 99%. When I played the MPEG that I managed to save it was only 10 minutes long, not the 30 minutes it should have been. And the funny part was, the end of the ten minutes coincided *exactly* with the end of the 3 minute inserted MPEG clip from the shorter project.

It was as if VS 10 was looking at the overall project and deciding that the end of the inserted MPEG clip was the end of the entire project when in reality there was another 20 minutes of AVIs, etc, to render. Very strange.

So I went back to my original short project and exported it as an AVI clip. Then in the longer project I removed the 3 minute MPEG and replaced it with the 3 minute AVI and - viola - it rendered into MPEG2 perfectly, completely and with no crashing.

So my lesson learned was don't try and mix AVI and MPEG clips. Maybe the MPEG I was inserting was corrupted? I don't know. But since the rest of the video was AVI quality wise it made no difference MPEG or AVI, so I went 100% AVI.

M

Pentium 2.8
1 gig ram
Libra

[Terry Stetler]

"Lost" in the memory slot isn't a proper system profile

Could be that mixing formats created enough temp files & swelled the swapfile enough to cause your C drive to run out of space. That would cause an out of (virtual) memory error.

[meshuken]

Hi Terry,

I use a 80 GB dedicated drive for my Video editing, so that's probably ok - about 40 GB are empty right now.

As for swap file, I'll have to check that out, maybe change teh settings...

M