I've used VS7,9 10 & now 11 for years for work documentation without issues (mainly) However, these were all just simple distillations with title tracks- rarely more than 40 mins of finished dvd.
I bought my daughter a copy of VS10 to do a school film project; she seemed to grasp it quickly & I left her to it.
It now seems, after months of work, that she has a single .vsp that started with over 50 GB of .avi's, what seems like hundreds of intricate cuts, overlays, music & dialogue tracks, that goes for nearly 1.5 hrs.
She has the source .avi's & the .vsp on an external drive & the "working folder" on her C drive. Her laptop (XPsp2,1gb ram) is grinding to a halt. "Insufficient Memory" errors are cropping up ever more frequently. VS10 crashes. I tried plugging the external drive into my laptop (Vista Ult,2gb ram) & opening it in my VS11. Of course this led to a circus of relinking to music & image files that had to be transferred from her C drive. Now my laptop is having the error & crashing VS11.
Is this happening because the .vsp is too big? How can I split her nearly completed work into seperate vsp's without trashing her work?
Split oversize VSP into smaller VSPs
Moderator: Ken Berry
The VSP file itself is not too big. It's just the project file that contains pointers to all of the clips that make up the video, plus the titles, which transitions, etc., etc.
What you can do (and I have done this myself), is to start by opening the current VSP file successfully. Do a "Save As" to create a copy of the project file. Then go in and simply delete everything that comes after, say, the 1/3 point in the timeline. Save this and you now have a project (VSP) that is 1/3 the original length and much easier to work with.
Do the same for the middle and final third of the original project and you're done. This might all be a bit easier said than done, as you might have to cut some clips at the split points in order to get a clean break in the video, but as long as you note the exact time markers at which you do the split, you should be able to get it to come out reasonably well.
For the final video, you could output a video file from each of the subprojects, and then make a new project that just contains these three videos. That way, you could easily produce a complete full-lengh video or DVD.
What you can do (and I have done this myself), is to start by opening the current VSP file successfully. Do a "Save As" to create a copy of the project file. Then go in and simply delete everything that comes after, say, the 1/3 point in the timeline. Save this and you now have a project (VSP) that is 1/3 the original length and much easier to work with.
Do the same for the middle and final third of the original project and you're done. This might all be a bit easier said than done, as you might have to cut some clips at the split points in order to get a clean break in the video, but as long as you note the exact time markers at which you do the split, you should be able to get it to come out reasonably well.
For the final video, you could output a video file from each of the subprojects, and then make a new project that just contains these three videos. That way, you could easily produce a complete full-lengh video or DVD.
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You could also try changing the working directory of VS to a drive which has at least 100 GB free space on it for a project that size. Normally we recommend have free space which is at least twice the size of the project as VS has to create temp files etc when previewing and doing the other edits. It needs plenty of space for this. Since by default the working directory is in My Documents, and this is on your C:\ drive normally, and your C:\ drives are apparently getting rather full or at least don't have enough elbow room for VS, you need to change where the working directory is located. File > Preferences > General.
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