how to save the final menus in the created ISO project

buercky · Post by **buercky** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:16 pm

VS 10 VS 11
This may be something i am overlooking but. when i create a disk. I go thru the process of creating the chapters and menus for the TOP menu and SUB menus then create the disc or ISO file.
I would like to SAVE this entire information including the MENUS , my choice of menu template i used and the chapter names into the project for the next time. so i dont have to recreate it. I see that when after the burning i select close it saves the project.. but it never saves my menus and template into the project. WHAT am i doing wrong>

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:41 pm

This is due to a misleading message when you close or exit the authoring stage "Saving Project" - It doesn't.

What you need to do is BEFORE you enter the create disc stage, is to save or save as and give the project a meaningful name. Now enter the the create disc stage. When you exit the create disc stage this takes you back to the VideoStudio Editor. Now manually save the project.

If you now close VideoStudio and re-open it, load the saved project and return to the create disc stage you will find your menus etc are intact.

buercky · Post by **buercky** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:41 pm

OK why dont they just have a SAVE PROJECT button. throught the creation... That way a user could save as they go along the building.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:48 pm

buercky wrote:OK why dont they just have a SAVE PROJECT button. throught the creation... That way a user could save as they go along the building.

Now that is a very good question.
Why there has never been a Save or Save As option from the burner module is beyond me.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:57 pm

It is a question which has been asked many times before -- and just as often ignored by Ulead (and now Corel).

Just as it has remained a total mystery to me why users cannot assign their own names right from the start to video files they are capturing...

buercky · Post by **buercky** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:00 am

YEA thats another one would be nice ... but ya have to go out to the UVS file rename it then relink... sucks...

lgcharlot · Post by **lgcharlot** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:56 pm

sjj1805 wrote:This is due to a misleading message when you close or exit the authoring stage "Saving Project" - It doesn't.

What you need to do is BEFORE you enter the create disc stage, is to save or save as and give the project a meaningful name. Now enter the the create disc stage. When you exit the create disc stage this takes you back to the VideoStudio Editor. Now manually save the project.

If you now close VideoStudio and re-open it, load the saved project and return to the create disc stage you will find your menus etc are intact.

The problem I am having is that VS10+ keeps "freezing up" during the Create Chapter Menu process, usually when editing menu text or adding a music track to a menu, so I never get the chance to "close" the Create Disc module normally and re-save the project from the main editor window, per your workaround quoted above. Task Manager indicates VSTUDIO.DAT is "NOT RESPONDING", so after a few minutes, I have to force-kill the process and start over. For some reason, the auto recover file never seems to have saved whatever Chapter Menu edits I did manage to complete before the crash, so I end up having to do all the Menu edits over again - after the fifth or sixth time this gets really annoying. These freeze-ups happen even if I have used your recommended workflow of first creating an MPEG of the whole project and loading it into a new session. I have been trying to complete this project for a week and have yet to make it through the entire process to a finished folder of DVD-VOB files even once. I would upgrade to VS11, but I have been told that it requires a CPU that supports the SSE instruction set, and my Celerom M powered laptop apparently does not, so for the time being I guess I am stuck with VS10+.

Is there any other way to make VS10+ save the chapter menu edits, considering that there is no "SAVE" button in the Create Disc module? (has this oversight been fixed in VS11?).
My movie is 150 minutes total length and consists of a mix of MJPEG/AVI video clips and regular JPEG stills from my Fuji S-9000 camera.
Is this too long for VS10+ to handle, and it's the length of the project that's causing the crashes? I can usually get VS10 to generate a video file output (per your recommended workflow), but even this sometimes causes the program to hang, requiring a force-kill and restart. I am also occasionally getting those crashes with Windows saying "YOUR APPLICATION HAS ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO CLOSE", that others have reported in this forum. After one of these crashes, I could not run VS10 again even after rebooting - whatever happened apparently corrupted Windows itself and I had to reformat that drive partition and reinstall everything before VS10+ would run again.

Finally, is my problem possibly in the hardware I am using? Is this laptop simply underpowered and has not enough RAM (466 mb) for VS10+ to run reliably? I have noticed that Windows usually has to increase the size of the Page file to 2 gigabytes, and the hard drive is sometimes thrashing wildly for a long time while VS10 is trying to render the MPEG file.

Thanks!

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:12 pm

First, yes your laptop is on the light side. However if you make sure you disable all unnecessary processes, it still should work.

Secondly what is probably causing VS to choke is the MJPEG/AVIs. It has nothing to do with them being 150 mins, even though that would have to be reduced to fit on a single layer disk. Your bitrate would need to be at the lowest end used for a decent quality DVD.

Since you are wanting to burn a DVD, try converting your MJPEG "avi"s to a format that VS can handle easier, like MPEG-2. Then bring that into VS, do your editing, ect..

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:50 pm

I have an old Dell laptop with almost identical specifications to your Acer -- though the graphics card doesn't steal any of the system RAM as yours apparently does. Yet I find it just can't handle VS10 at all which demands just too much RAM by itself for the more complex processes, even with all background process possible closed down. I have VS9 on it, and even that tends to thrash a bit (and takes a couple of minutes even to open fully) but works. In any case, I am probably in the lucky category of having several computers, so the Dell is only very much a third or fourth level back-up...