error msg; PLEASEEE HELPPP!!

[blooies]

okay ive been working on this movie since friday-sunday. and on sunday i tried burning it and i kept getting an error msg. i've tried at least i shud say..11x. ive tried so many times but it keeps poppin up an error. i've tried everything. d/ling new programs. converting it. googling solutions to my problems. etc...but nothings working!! i tried changing whatever but nothingggg seems to be helllllllpinggg! please help! its already wednesday and i have a project thats soon due and i need it by then! thankss!!
btw; the error reads: unspecified error [5:0:0] thank you so much.

[Ken Berry]

That's a bit like a builder emailing us, saying he was building a building and it fell down -- why? We have no idea what kind of building it was supposed to be, let alone the materials that went into it, and the way he was building it.

Tell us exactly what you were doing: were you got your original video from, how it was captured, what its properties are (right click on captured files within Video Studio and copy them here). What are your Project Properties? What editing did you do? What exactly did you do to transfer the project to the burning module? And lastly, what are the specifications of your computer and its operating system?

[blooies]

ahaha alrie, alrie. i wont "builder mail" you then.

i got most parts of the video from a camcorder. there was this one part where i got from youtube that i downloaded off of vixy.net. there was another part of a video where i made on windows media which i transferred onto ulead.

"what its properties are (right click on captured files within Video Studio and copy them here)"
ermm; cus u specify where you want me to right click and what properties?

and for my project properties this is what it says:
file size: 3.3 MB
duration: 17:32
edit file format: MPEG files
NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 8000 kbps)
LPCM Audio, 48000 Hz, Stereo

what editing did i do? a lot. text/transitions/overlay/audio etc, etc. i put music in some parts. i put overlay in some parts. i put almost transition for every part and text for every parts.

what exactly did i do to transfer the project to the burning module? waht? lols. i clicked the tab "share" on top. (btw im using VideoStudio11) and then i clicked create disc, next, editing the menu, edited the 2nd menu (with transitions/words/video in bg/music/etc), clicked next agen, put the drive in my DVD-RW, clicked create disc- recording format: DVD-Video, then burn.

& what do u mean what are the specifications of my computer? lol, sry im not really a tech wiz. i got a dell and i use windows. and thats all i know ;D

who knows; maybe you can help me and this problem will finally be solved!

[Ken Berry]

OK, so now we know you used three different types of 'bricks' in your building project! And one of them is, I think, .wmv format (which is a highly compressed format which is often difficult to edit and re-process in its own right -- or at least takes ages to do so when it works...)

But as for the other two types of bricks, I have never used You-Tube, so don't know what the format might have been, though again I suspect it might have been a fairly compressed and probably low quality one. And the third one came from a camcorder. But what kind of camcorder -- an old analogue one or a new digital one? How was it connected to your computer?

File Properties: right, you have Video Studio open, and, presumably, these various video clips in the timeline and possibly also in the library pane up above it to the right, each represented by icons. Hover your mouse over a clip and right click. A pop-up menu will appear and down at the bottom is Properties. Select that, and you will get a window telling you the properties of that particular file. Do the same for each of the different 'bricks' and copy their properties back here, please.

Now your Project Properties. First, are you sure it says the project size is only 3.3 MB??? Megabytes??? That is an incredibly small size for a 17 minute 32 second project using those high quality settings. However, at least they tell us you were trying to 'build' a DVD...

Anyway, the picture is becoming clearer. You are in your construction site, and have a bench with your three different, and probably widely divergent (in type, size, properties etc) bricks lined up beside each other. Now how do you cement all these bricks together so you can build your DVD.

I suspect you just went straight from the timeline to Share > Create Disc. This would have opened the burning module and the various bricks of your project would have reappeared in the burning module. Right? And you presumably built your menus and pressed Burn.

Now here is why I wanted to know about the tool you are using: your computer. If your Dell is not a particularly powerful one -- or for that matter (given your mix of bricks), even if it were -- then the probably widely divergent collection of bricks have first to be processed into the single format which is used for a video DVD which is mpeg-2. So Video Studio has to chip away at the ones which are not mpeg-2, and do so until they all look like mpeg-2 bricks! But not only does the computer have to do this very demanding task, but at the same time you are asking it to convert your menu into video, and then also multiplex the video and audio of your project, and actually burn the disc, and all this in the one (burning) step.

Now, are you really surprised with all of that, that your worker, Video Studio, simply goes on strike, claiming that you are asking too much!?

Instead, to give the worker a chance, once you have finished your editing, you should select File > Create Video File > DVD. This will then blend all your bricks into a single shape, which is a DVD-compliant mpeg-2. And it will do this before you even open the burning module. So that's one massive job that the burning module no longer has to worry about.

Then you save your project, and go to File > New Project. This will clear the editing timeline. Now you're cooking, so you go to Share > Create Disc. The burning module should open but its timeline should be empty. You use 'Add Media' up in the top left corner of the burning screen, browse to where your mpeg-2 is located, and insert it in the burning module.

Next, make sure 'do not convert compliant mpeg files' is ticked in the second (middle) of the three icons down in the bottom left of the burning screen ('Project Settings'). Build your menu and burn. Hurrah! The DVD is built!!!

... we hope!!! Since we still don't know the exact format of the other two types of bricks you are using, it is still possible that your Dell might choke at the Share > Create Video File stage since the bricks might just not be capable of being cemented together... So do that right click trick and tell us the various properties...

[blooies]

i used a pretty new..digital cacorder. it was connected on my frds computer then she sent over the files to me on yahoo.

okay, so im doing the properities thing for each of the "bricks" but there are alot of bricks..and wen i go to properties i cant highlight what it says, so i have to actually type it which is a pain...here i'll give you the properties for one of the "bricks":

file format: windows media video
file size: 11,264
duration: 44.366 seecs
dta rate: 2031 kbps
video: windows media video 9
24 bits, 640x480, 30.000 frames/sec
audio: windows media audio 9.1
44.100 KHz, 16 bits, stereo
aspect ratio: 1.33:1.00
is editable: yes

the properties for the youtube one:
File:
file format: microsoft AVI files
file size: 1,437 KB
frame rate: 30.000 frames/sec
duration: 40.567 secs
date rate: 33.59 kbps
Video:
compression: 3ivx D4 Video Decoder
attribtues: 24 bits, 320x240
total frames: 1,217 frames
Audio:
Compression: MPEG layer-3
Attributes: 64 kBit/s, 22,050 Hz, Mono
total samples: 872,640 samples

i have no idea what i just copied, but hopefully that will help you in helping me!

and yep ur absolutely right about how i tried burning it! yeah i see my timeline and everything. okay so i think i get what ur saying about my computer and the files..but anyways; i tried going to file>create video file> dvd..but the thing is wen i open my project and go to file..there is no create video file! all there is under file is: new project, open project, save, save as, smart package, project properties, preferences, relink, insert media file to library, insert media file to timeline, names of other projects i created, and exit.

my problem seems hopeless!

[blooies]

just wen there seemed to be hope...i get crushed agen!
i found "create video files" and i went to dvd..and it does it pretty slow, but halfway there a msg popped up saying unable to load library. or whatever..it always seems to stop at the same place! any suggestions?

[Ron P.]

Across the top you will see the Steps used for the whole operation. Starting from the left, Capture, then Edit, Effect, Overlay, Title, Audio then Share. The last one Share is the Step you need to click on. Then at the bottom you should see, Create Video File, and some other choices. Click on the Create Video File..

Ok so you found that before I got my response posted..

That is probably due to the video files Ken posted about, that may cause VS to choke. VS has a hard time rendering from highly compressed formats, such as WMV, DivX, MOV, and Xvid to name a few. In my opinion those highly compressed formats are meant for viewing only, not editing.

You might need to convert a couple of your video clips (ones that you downloaded from YouTube) to a format that VS can handle. You can search the web for a program called Super Video Converter.

[Ken Berry]

Sorry. Yes, that was my mistake -- I was typing too quickly and did not read it back. It should have been Share > Create Video File > DVD.

Ok, we now know you have at least two highly compressed formats in your project: .wmv and 3ivx... Do you know if you even have the 3ivx codec on your computer? It is not a common one and does not come already installed in any program that I am aware of. So VS11 will not be able to handle it without the codec... You would have to do a Google search to find it.

But I really think you have bitten off much, much more than you can chew with a project like this. As I have already said, .wmv is a difficult enough format to process in its own right. 3ivx is also a difficult one. And who knows what your third type is (the ones from the camcorder...)

And you are mixing these two difficult formats together and hoping for a miracle.

If I had to do this myself, I would be probably using another program to convert the .wmv to mpeg-2 and then the 3ivx to mpeg-2. And possibly the same with the third format that we don't know about yet. And only then would I put them into Video Studio...

[heinz-oz]

I would, instead of getting someone else to capture the files and send these to me via yahoo, do my capturing myself. That way I would have pristine files, unadulterated by someone else coding "prowess" and create my video from that.

[blooies]

okay i have now converted all the files into .wmv, but wenever i go to create a video file>dvd it always goes half way, then stops and says cannot load into library or whatever.

[Jim Viola]

Some members, like myself, have had problems with a failure to load error related to issues with some of Ulead's 3D transitions, especially the Flying Flip. Removing the 3D transitions, if you use them, may fix problem.

Good luck.

Experts, please chime in on my comment.

[Ken Berry]

And I am mystified why you converted everything to wmv format when, as I already said, it is a difficult format to handle and at the very least verrrrrrry slow to render to DVD-compatible mpeg-2. My suggestion was to convert everything to mpeg-2!!!

[blooies]

no, no , no. they were originally .wmv except for one of them so thats why i was like oh why dont i just make it all .wmv. anyways; if i convert to mpeg do i go to batch convert? gawd, thats gonna take awhile cus there are alot of diff clips. okay i'll try taking out the 3d transitions and then maybe converting them. i'll get back to u guys soon! thanks for all your helppppp!

[ronbuist]

Jim Viola, you are absolutely right! I'm experiencing the same problems; I found this thread while I was looking for any help on my particular problem with VS11+.

I bought the download version if VS11+. I installed all the stuff I was able to download (program, content pack and bonus CD). I've created a couple of DVD's with VS11+ (Sony TRV6E camcorder, capture, edit, add some effects, chapter points and titles, then share => create disc). No problems whatsoever.

Then, for the next DVD, I decided to try out some more features of VS11+. The project went OK, up until the point where I wanted to create a DVD in the usual manner (share => create disc). This time, I get an unspecified error. The rendering of the video seems to go OK, but after 5% it jumps ahead to 99%. Then VS+ starts with the menus (which seems to go fine) and after that the unspecified error pops up.

Thanks to the info in this topic, I tried share => create video file. This gives me some visual information as I can see the video while rendering. Right at the point where I threw in a "folding box" transition (which is indeed a 3D transition effect), I get a "library not loaded" (or similar words; I didn't write down the exact message).

After replacing al "folding box" transitions with "flow" transitions, it's al working again!

Jim, thanks for your valuable reply. It saved my day!

Ron Buist
(Ten Boer, The Netherlands)

[sjj1805]

May I suggest you read:
From camcorder to DVD with VideoStudio I am sure it will solve most of your problems.