vs10 refuses to create iso image and keyboard is locked

[dadidu]

It works now. I found the solution to get my DVD image
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If there's an Ulead project manager out there - torture him with one month of assembler coding on an oldstyle 8 bit home computer for this product quality, the only food will be water and bread.
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I have now discovered that having two files with a filesize more than 4 GB inserted in the time line causes the error 257:0:0 or an hard crash after 90 minutes of processing time, and this hard crash just disappeared when I cutted a 5 gig and a 6 gig file in some 2 gig files. But I did not change the encoding of the source files.

Then I resetted all preference and projeft settings to default. Maybe also some Ini files have been corrupted

(1)
I Created a new project, added my files with the movie wizard, used 'make disk' without ANY special settings and IT WORKS!!!!
The wizard didn't detect my three-file-scene, added some unwanted fadings and clip transition effects and the main screen of the DVD needed a more intelligent title than 'My Project 10' and the default background sound. So further investigations were taken out.
(2)
Next attempt: new project, adding the files by hand.... no games with the DVD menu and chapter settings - IT WORKS!!!!
(3)
Then I enabled the dualpass encoding, and VBR, and I have gotten the error 257:0:0 but no real crash so far. Just a dialogue box.
(4)
Next attempt: using the same project file from (2) , did some personalizing in the DVD chapter menu like adding background pictures and setting the chapter names, disabling the dualpass setting, enabling CBR and I kept the default of 70% in the speed/quality slider, set the bitrate to 5 MBit - IT WORKS. But the quality is not the best.
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RESULTS AND FACTS:

(1) now 75% success rate....
(2) 512 MB of physical memory in Windows XP pro is not enough for my movies.
(3) the DVD creation process does not show all of the allocated memory.
(4) the hard crash which causes Windows to send an error report is definitly caused when processing the big files with too few memory.
Unfortunately I cannot double-check it now because I changed from 1x512 MB to 2x1GB mem

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a note to ken and Heinz:

I wrote down my system config. And why just don't tell the people that the mpeg encoder in the dvd burner module is different from the mpeg encoder of the main program? CRAZY!

[jchunter]

Dadidu,
Thank you for validating, once again, the benefits of following the Recommended Procedure for success (avoiding problems) with Video Studio...

[dadidu]

So you are all right. I was wrong. I was really willing to use some steps of the recomended procedure. I could create 10 minute movies for yutube this way, but for stronger stuff I need a stronger and more stable program.

I just want to turn directly to left and not 15 times to the right though I get the same result. The ulead way is to turn 15 times to the right because the left indicator toggle is like a 'not-to-use' button. Who ever uses it will be frustrated.

I see the disadvantages of this procedure and also the advantages: having 16 titles, making one DVD-compliant mpeg file.... my chapters are lost and must be recreated. The chapter creating tool of the DVD burner is not that userfriendly....

The two advantages is a better stability and the improved speed if I would like to create several different DVD images from one source.

I thaught I could batch process my avi files and create the mpegs for keeping my chapters - and VS refuses to batch-encode more than one file as mpeg. No information what went wrong and also this window with the 16 failure notices came AFTER batch encoding all of these files, not after failing with the first file. Another hour of time burned. Just another 'not-to-use button', an user lure. So now it's definitly enough and you'll find this item at Ebay in some days.

To play around with some 10MB files from my cellphone it's ok, but to create (in a simple way) a one-hour-DVD from files in a real-world-quality like DV it's too buggy and too instable and too restricted.

I wanted a simple program - drag, drop, add a title, create a chapter menu, and BURN. Sony's Click2DVD can do it - Movie maker 2 can do it, Nero Vision Express can do it. And I already did it.

But it's impossible with VS10. I Have to do tricks. I should use Mpeg instead of raw material or DV encoded (mjpeg) . I cannot batch-process... I cannot create a DVD.... in the old catalyst it causes a distorted preview window, in the newer catalysts I cannot change the Rage Theater/AV200 input from SVHS to Chinch, the DVD preview freezes the program when switching to the second chapter.... I cannot this and I cannot that. I have to create my chapters twice.... wait one hour.... bang. Error 257:0:0 or the sound was - censored f-word - bad ... incredible.

So I got my axe and chainsaw, cutted some wood to calm my mind, placed a bid on Magix movie maker 2007, placed also my VS10 at Ebay and see what happens, and in the meantime I do the DVD creation task with the Nero tools.

For batch processing I will use Nero recode and the Vision Express, and it has also a basic title and chapter generator, and it also creates DVD folders / images.

[heinz-oz]

Amen to that, I wish you luck. Thank god we all use it wrongly and have success rather than trying the impossible. Some people are just too easy to please, you are different but...

[Black Lab]

When you find the perfect video editing application for $100 you let us know.