Share - Create Video File

[pinkhouse]

I am trying to share - create video file for a Project, and when I click the Icon, the programme just hangs. For other projects, the drop down menu appears, and the next steps are easy to follow.

I have absolutely no idea why this Project should be different. It behaves in every other respect just as do my many other projects, and has been "shared" in the form of a DVD burn before now.

Any ideas at all as to what I might begin to look for as having "rogue" features, please.

[Black Lab]

Please read the following and supply the requested info:
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959

[pinkhouse]

Hope that I have posted the pertinent information.

[Ken Berry]

Where??? That's why Black Lab posted that link -- to tell you the information we need before anyone can give a sensible answer to your problem.

[Black Lab]

You did fill in your system info, but we still need info about your project.

One area that I see that could be a problem is you have a 30 GB hard drive. Is that the total, or what you have free? Either way, it's probably not enough.

[pinkhouse]

Sorry - I must change that information. My hard drive free space is at present around 210 Gb.

I should also say that I have this problem with this PARTICULAR project (and no others) both on a laptop and on my PC.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Pinkhouse

Then the problem is probably a corrupt project. But we know nothing of your project.
That is why you have been asked to provide details of the project, in particular the project properties. Please read the link provided by Jeff in his first reply. http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959

But as you say its related to the one project then all the details of the used clips, there types there properties and editing used. Are they downloaded from the web, captured from a camera??????????

It is very difficult for us to fault your project and I feel it may be easier to start again, abandoning the faulty project. Although that being said it would be nice to find the culprit, only for you to avoid it later.



This is an extract from the link provided by Jeff


For problems not covered, please use this copyable format in posting your questions:

SUBJECT: Please use a subject that describes your exact problem

Describe your problem:

Properties of your source files (format, file size, where did you get it?):

What devices are involved and their mode of connection?:

Project Properties (important):

Output format (file, DVD, VCD, SVCD):

PAL or NTSC:

Error Codes (if any):

If you are unsure how to access the project and clip properties, please ask

[2Dogs]

for example, the most straightforward kind of project would have DV type 1 avi clips on the timeline, captured from a MiniDV camcorder.

When creating a DVD compatible mpeg2 file from the project, VS would have to transcode all the clips - which on your system might occur at around real time or better, depending on how much you have in the way of filters and effects.

Your system info shows you have 1Mb of RAM - I presume that's a typo. If you have 1Gb, it should be fine, but these days with RAM so cheap there's no reason for you not to have 2Gb.

Another type of project might have mpeg2 clips on the timeline - for example, footage captured from a hard drive camcorder. If the output properties are correctly set so as to maintain the properties of the original video, VS will be able to smart render an output file at very much less than the running time of the project.

As Jeff and Trevor have already suggested, the most likely cause of your trouble is a corrupted project, since you were previously able to work with it and it's the only project that's affected.

If you were having problems with other projects, I might suggest you check your DirectX version, since some windows updates appear to cause problems. There would be no harm in making sure you have the latest version of DirectX anyway, and installing the August 2008 update.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Other common causes of problems are mp3 audio files. VS doesn't get on with some of those, possibly depending on what encoder was used to make the mp3's.

Unless you've recently added clips or audio files to your project, however, it may just be that the project file is corrupted.

Depending on how many clips make up the project, one way to check it out would be to separately try to output each clip - or to save time, part of each clip - to a DVD compatible mpeg-2 file. If your project comprises many short clips, you could do the tests with groups of clips.

If all the clips check out OK, you should look at any audio tracks you might have, and test the effect of removing each or all of them on your ability to output the project to an mpeg2 file.

You can do all these tests fairly easily, maybe even making a renamed copy of your original project for testing purposes so that you don't have to worry about messing up the original, although VS has a useful "undo" function.

In order to reduce memory usage, you might reduce the number of "undo" levels to 10 or so. You'll find the setting in file > preferences.

Also try running Windows Task Manager in the Performance tab, so that you can see what's happening with your cpu usage and RAM availability when the problem occurs.

[pinkhouse]

Thanks for the support. I cannot bear the thought of going through a vast item by item check, so have decided to take a two step approach.

First, I am creating an ISO copy. This, I hope, will allow me to Unzip into its components and then go though Nero to recode the vob file. Not sure yet, of course.

[Black Lab]

Depending on how many clips make up the project, one way to check it out would be to separately try to output each clip - or to save time, part of each clip - to a DVD compatible mpeg-2 file. If your project comprises many short clips, you could do the tests with groups of clips.

I think the easiest way is to cut your project in half, then try to render each half. If one half works then fine, that half is not corrupted. If the other half also hangs, you are on your way. Split that in half again and repeat until you narrow it down.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Pinkhouse

When you create an Iso file Video Studio first renders your project to a compatible mpeg file.
Using this file VS makes the Iso. The iso is just a container a zip file.

Rather than creating an Iso create a DVD Folder a TS Folder. This contains the same files as the iso but you do not have to unzip.

If you can do that then there is no reason why you cannot Share Create Video File ¡V Selecting the DVD option or same as project settings. As this option seems to fails then I would assume that creating the iso/dvd folder will also fail.

[pinkhouse]

Thanks for the "do first half, then ..." suggestion. It worked, and I think (only think) that the problem may have arisen because of a couple of corrupted mini clips that were embedded at the end which had been uploaded via a USB link (from a tape camcorder) rather than via the firewire.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

That¡¦s good news, glad you are making progress in finding the problem.

[Black Lab]

[2Dogs]

...I think (only think) that the problem may have arisen because of a couple of corrupted mini clips that were embedded at the end which had been uploaded via a USB link (from a tape camcorder) rather than via the firewire.

Good job you didn't embark on my "one clip at a time" method, then! Mind you, I did also suggest you start with the last clips and work backwards, didn't I?