Stuck at 3% creating disc

[dschild]

I'm using a trial, so I'm new to Ulead, but not new to video editing.
I've created a project mixed with audio, video, stills, etc. It's about 2.5 minutes long.
I can burn it to MP4 or other file formats. But when trying to create a disc, it jumps to 3%, then stays there forever. I've left the PC on overnight. It doesn't do this for other projects, just this one. (I've only created to other small projects).
I've tried changing the work directory, I've cleaned out the work folder. I've tried just creating ISO and not a DVD. Still has the same problem.
The project previews through just fine. And like I said, it dumps to MP4 or other files ok. But if I do a dvd or dvd image, then it fails.

Any ideas? I really don't want to redo the project, so hopefully the answer isn't that.

[Ken Berry]

One little thing you might want to look at is in the menu creation stage in the burning module. When you open the burning module (Share > Create Disc), you first insert your video in the burning "timeline". If you want to add Chapters, then click the Add/Edit Chapters button. Then you click next, and the page where you choose a Menu template appears. Once you have selected a template, you click on the Edit tab on the same page to select background music, change the background photo etc.

Down in the bottom left corner of the Edit page, though, is an innovation in VS11, and I have found that it slows down my burning stage enormously, and even brought it to a complete halt. Now I never use it.

There are two icons, one above the other, labelled Menu In and Menu Out. Using them is supposed to animate the transition from the menu to a selected video clip. You will see that the Menu In icon is disabled by default (circle with diagonal line through it). But the Menu Out button is enabled. And this was the culprit. Click on the icon and it brings up a choice of animations. Choose the disabling one identical to the default for Menu In. Then proceed to burn. I think you should notice a considerable improvement in the speed.

[dschild]

I was not creating a menu, but even still, I checked to create one, and then disabled the option you're referring to. Still no luck.
It stuck at 3% for 12 hours before I ended task on the program.

I've done the normal cleanup (temp files, deleted files, etc)

I have 4 300GB drives in the system. All Sata2

2GB Ram and a dual core 2.4

Again it only seems to be this one project. It's a 2.5 minute video.

I can dump it to an MP4 no problem, but burning a disc doesn't work.
Even tried just creating the ISO. Same problem.

[Black Lab]

What workflow are you using? Are you going straight from your project in the timeline and clicking Share>Create Disc? If so, that can cause problems for some people.

For that reason a Suggested Workflow was devised. After your editing is complete go to Share>Create Video File and make a DVD-compliant MPEG-2 file. When that is finished rendering you clear the timeline, then choose Share>Create Disc. When the burning window opens you use Insert Video File (or Insert Media ?) to insert your MPEG-2 in the burning timeline. Then you proceed to burn. Make sure your burn properties match your project's properties.

Suggested Workflow