insufficient memory

hoenth · Post by **hoenth** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:26 pm

I recently downloaded version 9, drive before buy.

I am trying to create a video file with the following settings:

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
MPEG files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
(DVD-NTSC), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 8000 kbps)
Audio data rate: 224 kbps
MPEG audio layer 2, 48 KHz, Stereo

I am running on a
Pentium 4
2.4GHz
1Gig Ram

90 Gig NTSC harddrive

I am getting an "insufficient memory" failure.

Most of the video are pictures, using scan and pan. At the point of failure, there is nothing special about the picture (jpeg, like all the rest). Using Task Manager, memory usage tops out at 500Meg.

Any thoughts?

Tom

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:33 pm

At what point do you get that message? If you've been able to isolate the picture that's causing the problem, have you tried deleting the other assets from the project, and just doing the pan & zoom on the problem picture?

Also, Task Manager lets you add columns to the Processes display (using Options -> Select Columns), one of which is Peak Memory Usage -- see if UVS did in fact grow beyond the 500MB you observed.

hoenth · Post by **hoenth** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:44 pm

I created a new project with just the lead in picture and the problem picture.

Same result.

I added the peak column, and at the time of the error, vstudio.dat was at 220,000K.

All of the photos were scanned, many in the same batch. All are jpegs.

I am loath to remove the photo, as there are some bits of timing that i am concerned will get thrown off. And since this is the 6th photo out of about 70, I am concerned I am going to run up against this anyway later on.

hoenth · Post by **hoenth** » Thu May 12, 2005 8:52 pm

Ineresting. When I remove Pan and Scan, I don't get the error, but the picture does not display in the video. The screen goes to black where the picture is supposed to be.

Here are the specs on the picture.
Attributes
Jpeg, RGG 24-bit color, 76,835KB
File size 1,995 KB

hoenth · Post by **hoenth** » Thu May 12, 2005 9:10 pm

OK, so it appears that the jpeg contained too many bits. Its dimensions were too big. Once I reduced it to smaller dimension 720 X 600, the picture no longer gave me any issues.

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Thu May 12, 2005 10:18 pm

I'm not aware of any limitations in UVS for picture dimensions, though I'm sure some exist. It's just that nobody else has reported such a limitation yet in these forums that I remember. I think it's more likely that you had a damaged JPEG file or ran into a bug where the program couldn't handle the picture data properly.

If you are planning on panning and zooming, it's important to start with as much picture detail as possible so that the image doesn't need to be scaled. Therefore, if you can, stick with the full-size / full-resolution image.

One thing you could try is taking the problem picture, and performing a "Save As" in your favorite image editor (Photoshop / Gimp / whatever) to create a new file. If the original file had some bad data in it, this will hopefull clear that up.

mchunter · Post by **mchunter** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:06 pm

I have had a similar problem. Everytime I have tried to produce my video file, VideoStudio reports "Out of memory" on the final slide.
The slide in question is a panoramic JPEG picture and I'm using the pan feature to pan across the whole picture from left to right taking approx. 30 secs. I also have titles running during this clip. After numerous attempts to fix the problem, suspecting my PC setup etc I finally managed a workaround by producing a new project with just this clip in, then replaced the panning slide in my original project with the MPEG file and I was then able to produce my video file.

Has anyone else suffered from this problem? If so is it due to the size of the JPEG file as suggested above. Is there a better way workaround.

Any comments gratefully received.

bop · Post by **bop** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:42 pm

I as well had the same trouble this week the original size was 1915 x1331 pixels and VS9 coughed up the same error until i resized to 1600 x 1112 pixels i didnot try any in between sizes but i remembered somthing heinz-oz wrote a while back so i resized it and it worked

Brian

mchunter · Post by **mchunter** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:15 pm

I checked the size of my panoramic picture. It was 15659 x 1902 (18Mb).

That probably explains why I was having a problem.

Martin

Bytheseaside · Post by **Bytheseaside** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:46 pm

I have the same problem as mchunter had back in 2006. I have a huge panorama in the middle of my project of stills & movies. I use VS8. When I tried to render the project I got the Insufficient Memory error. I tracked it down to the panorama - mine is about 20000 x 1800 & the pan took 54 secs!

My real problem is that I have rendered this project before, about a year or more ago, with no problem. Since then I've done a re-edit to shorten the whole project, & now it crashes with the error. I followed mchunter's solution, just rendering the offending panorama, then re-inserting it back in the project - problem solved.

So what could have changed so the it won't work now when it worked before??

John.