Always having problems when creating DVDs or Blu-ray discs

Zclyh3 · Post by **Zclyh3** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:56 pm

Windows Vista Ultimate x64 all updates installed
8GB of Corsair Dominator DDR2-1066Mhz
3 x 1.5TB hard drives so plenty of disk space
eVGA GeForce 7300 GS video card

Describe your problem:
Everytime towards the end of the rendering, I get a 5:0:0 Unspecified Error when rendering Blu-ray folders to be burned

Properties of your source files (format, file size, where did you get it?):
.m2ts format with various files sizes ranging from 180MB-1.2GB per clip. All shot and taken from my Sony HDR-HC9.

What devices are involved and their mode of connection?:
I'm not burning any files or folders. Just rendering.

Project Properties (important):
MPEG files
24 bits, 1920 x 1080, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
(HDMV-NTSC), 16:9
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 35000 kbps)
Audio data rate: 256 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio, 48 KHz, 2/0(L,R)

Output format (file, DVD, VCD, SVCD): Blu-ray or DVD

PAL or NTSC: NTSC

Error Codes (if any): 5:0:0 Unspecified Error

Product Version: Videostudio 12 Pro X2

YES I have installed the latest DirectX on the sticky.
YES I have installed the latest video card drivers.

So the original project with proper menus is 16.80(18.04) GB.

The main issue is that when I create menus, the project errors out at the end after all the encoding has been done.

When I take out ALL the pictures from my menus, the project will finish successfully. This happens with both DVD and Blu-ray creation. I've wasted so much time just trying to figure this out. Creating DVD/BR discs has now become a guessing game. I have to guess to see whether or not the project will actually complete successfully. I can't even create DVD DL discs anymore because of these issues. It's either out of memory or unspecified error every time.

But how can I be out of memory? I have 8GB of RAM! Ulead doesn't offer much help. They said you should try just rendering the video project into a file. That has no issues. It's the CREATION part that's the issue. The CREATION of DVD/Blu-ray disc. It's not like I'm creating some fancy menu or what not. It's just simple TEXT and a JPG file for the background. I'm willing to go as far as to use a video capture program to show you what's going on. This is ridiculous.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:16 pm

A couple of thoughts. First, your original video is .m2ts which is -- obviously enough! -- high definition AVCHD/mpeg-4. As such, it uses a field order of Upper Field First. But your project properties contain Lower Field First which I would have thought was wrong, and could be part of your problem.

Another thought, since you mentioned the menu as being a significant part of the problem, is to look closely and see if in the menu set-up, you are using the animated fade-in which is the default. I am sorry, but I cannot be more specific than that as I am away from home, using a computer without VS on it. But I found that this fade-in at best added hours to my disc burns, and at worst caused the program to crash. There is a little window with, IIRC, four icons, two on two. And to disable the fade-in, you use the circle with a diagonal bar through it, just like a road symbol for STOP!

Zclyh3 · Post by **Zclyh3** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:21 pm

Oh my bad. The files are m2t files. The camcorder records using HDV. M2TS files are from the Sony SR11/SR12 camcorders which I don't use. I still use tapes.

Zclyh3 · Post by **Zclyh3** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:25 pm

Ken Berry wrote:A couple of thoughts. First, your original video is .m2ts which is -- obviously enough! -- high definition AVCHD/mpeg-4. As such, it uses a field order of Upper Field First. But your project properties contain Lower Field First which I would have thought was wrong, and could be part of your problem.

Another thought, since you mentioned the menu as being a significant part of the problem, is to look closely and see if in the menu set-up, you are using the animated fade-in which is the default. I am sorry, but I cannot be more specific than that as I am away from home, using a computer without VS on it. But I found that this fade-in at best added hours to my disc burns, and at worst caused the program to crash. There is a little window with, IIRC, four icons, two on two. And to disable the fade-in, you use the circle with a diagonal bar through it, just like a road symbol for STOP!

I'll try changing it to Upper Field first to see if that can solve the problem. Second, I have disabled all menu fade-ins, outs, you name it. Those types of menus add more space needed on the DVD drive. As I have mentioned, my menus are all very simple. Just text and a picture. No fancy modes, fade-ins, etc whatever. The menu is completely reduced down to 3MB or 11MB in Blu-ray.

Zclyh3 · Post by **Zclyh3** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:31 pm

I do have one question though. What I normally do is have the Blu-ray folders created to be burned later.

Would it be a better idea to just install my Blu-ray burner onto my media encoding server instead of creating those folders? Everything I create is either created as an ISO or Blu-ray folders instead of actually burning it.

As a matter of fact, the encoding is fine during the process. It's when the folders are being created is when I have issues and the out of memory or unspecified errors pop out.