Help!!! I'm in trouble--

screwball2 · Post by **screwball2** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:56 am

Disaster - my wifes latest compilation of an incomplete 40 min video on her laptop was juddering and making it difficult to edit. So brains here decided to help by suggesting she rendered it - all went very smoothly until approx half way through. It stopped and said insufficient space. We viewed what it had rendered - lovely. But then noticed that the hard drive was 100% full!!!!
Nothing is going to run properly until we remove the video file or copy it to another drive. But- she has spent months on this project and I'm already in the doghouse big time, to lose her work would mean certain death. Where can I find the file to transfer? Of course I know what the video is called, but when I look at the file size of its name, its only a few kb's, the video is about 25 gb. The settings and directories are the default place where UVS decided to put them on initial installation. Anyone help?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:01 am

Which file did you view to judge it was lovely?

As long as the video file is not completely rendered, there is nothing you can use.

Delete the temp folder for VS. It will take longer to render but might free enough space to finish the render.

screwball2 · Post by **screwball2** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:09 am

Are you saying I cannot move the complete file to another drive?????????
Once it is moved surely I can re-render?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:15 pm

You told us it was not complete -- only half way there. The small file you saw was only the project file which is not a video file -- it is a text file which tells the program what video is in the project, where it is, what editing has been done to it etc. You can certainly transfer that to another drive, but but unless all other associated files are transferred to the other drive, and you relink evreything, then your project is pretty useless.

I am intrigued, though, that you have a 25 GB project. DV video runs at about 13 GB per hour of video, so that suggests you have nearly two hours of DV involved. Or were you talking about uncompressed AVI which runs to about 65 GB per hour of video...?

Anyway, your working folder is normally in Documents\Ulead Systems\Video Studio\11.0 so if there is a whole or partial video file, it will be there...

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:19 pm

Since it didn't complete the render, where is the file coming from? What is it called? Does it have a vsp extension?

In order to move this project to another machine, mind you I have never done this, you would need to replicate exactly the same folder structure, put all the relevant files in exactly the same place with exactly the same names and start the project from there. If you get a message about missing files and relinking those, make sure to point to the exact same file on the new machine. Maybe you get lucky.

screwball2 · Post by **screwball2** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:46 pm

Thanks both - need to go out for a while - wifes getting stressy, will have a drink later and try to find the files to transfer. Wish me luck, or it may be the last time I'm heard of.