Video Studio crashes while making new mpeg file from project

becky62 · Post by **becky62** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:07 pm

Hi,

I worked the first time with Ulead Video Studio 11 and it was really easy to cut my films. The first project is a film of nearly 5 minutes length, some videos mixed with pictures and sound.

The problem began when I tried to build a mpeg-file from this project, Video Studio crashed (freeze) before the process began. I tried a lot of things and it seems that the film is to long or that the file is to big, cause if I shorten the length of the video (20 seconds) all works fine.

Is there a limit for the film length or filesize or are there other known problems?

Thanks,

Juergen

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:50 pm

It's not the project length or file size....

Most likely, Video Studio is having trouble converting one (or more) of your original video files, stills, or audio files. You may have to start a new project and add one file at a time to figure-out which file(s) are causing trouble.

What format are these files? Where did they come from? The more compressed formats (MOV, DivX, etc.) seem to cause lots of trouble. The same is true for stills and audio... The less-compressed formats are easier to convert.

Assuming you are not using AVI/DV files, try converting your video file(s) to AVI/DV* before editing. (Go to Share and Save As.) You can create an MPEG file when you're done editing. If Video Studio cannot convert the files, you've found your problem, and you may need to use a 3rd-party program to convert them.

Try converting your still images to bitmaps (BMP). You'll have to do that with photo editing software.

If your audio files are MP3s, try converting them to WAV. You'll have to do that with audio editing software.

* Make sure to use DV. AVI is a "container" format, and it can contain any type of compression.

becky62 · Post by **becky62** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:59 pm

Thanks for your reply. I will try it but don't think that this is the problem, caus e if I delete any part of my project it works if the part is long enough and it does nott matter which part it is (stills, videos, audios).

becky62 · Post by **becky62** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:07 pm

I made some more tests and it was not the problem DVDDoug suggested.

I devided the project in two parts and convert each of them - it works. Then I take the converted film of part 1 und put it to the project of part 2 - it don't work. Also if I put both converted films into one project and try to convert it to one film the software crashes. It seems that it really is the project length, but do i hve to shorten all my projects to less then 4 or 5 minutes?

Do anyone have another Idea?

Juergen

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:01 am

What format(s) are your audio/video/image files? Where did they come from? I still suspect that Video Studio is having trouble with your particular files.... But, I don't have a solution.

It seems that it really is the project length, but do i hve to shorten all my projects to less then 4 or 5 minutes?

5 minutes is really short for a DVD!

Most of us are making DVDs that are one or two hours long. You can actually squeeze more than 3 hours onto a single-layer DVD, but you have to use a low bitrate and the quality suffers. You can fit 3 hours of high-quality audio/video onto a dual-layer DVD. (Most commercial DVDs are dual layer.)

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:07 am

You still have not told us what the video files are in your project. Please right click on one of them (or more if they are from different sources) either in the Video Studio timeline or in the library pane, and copy down ALL the properties here please.

And yes, your project is tiny compared to most. We even had someone here the other day with a project which was 11 hours long. I still have difficulty believing that one, but there you are...