Automusic crashing X2 on rendering

[Zippy]

Hi all!

Last night I was putting together a small peice of introductory footage on which I (unusally for me) decided to use some Automusic.

All was fine & dandy, I set the project to render and went to have my tea. On returning to my PC 1/2 an hour later, the project had stopped rendering, but there was no sign of my output. I repeated the render, and sat getting bored watching it go - it crashed at 43%. Didn't bring down X2, just stopped rendering.

Changed from rendering HDV 1080i For PC, to just regular Pal DVD 16:9 (source is AVCHD) - stopped at 43%.

Selected a section in the middle of the footage that should have contained the sticky bit (figuring it might be a corrupted source file?), renders OK.

Play the project through in pre-render, OK

Hmmm - render again using custom MPEG settings - fails at 43%

Remove Automusic & render - Perfect (but quiet!)

So the conclusion is a glitch with the automusic (New standard, Absolute oblivion) - anyone had similar experiences?

Cheers,

Zippy!

[Black Lab]

I haven't use SmartSound in quite some time, but when I did I often encountered problems (but I don't recall crashing/hanging as one of them). My fix at the time was, after editing was complete, to go to Share>Create Sound File. After my WAV file was created I substituted that for the SmartSound and other audio files in my project.

[Zippy]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the response... I did try creating a .wav - that bombed out too!! Yesterday I removed the auto music, popped it back in and all was sweet

No big issue to me as it's not a feature I generally use, but it was a good cheap expedient in this instance.

Cheers,

Zippy