Problem with burning to DVD from ProX2

[ianrose]

1.I am attempting to burn a 47' 45" project to a DVD disk.
2. When the process gets to "Detailed Progress" 15% and "Total Progress" 5% the error message "Corel Video Studio has encountered a problem and needs to cloe" is returned.
3. The project plays without problem on the computer and I can see nothing at either the 2.3 minute (5% of 47'45") or the 7.1 minute (15% of 47'45") points that should cause a problem.
4. Any idea of what the problem might be and any suggestion as to what I can do to resolve the problem?
Many thanks for your anticipated advice.

[Black Lab]

What are at those two points? A transition, title, overlay, change in music, etc.?

[Ken Berry]

I suspect that you have finished editing and jumped straight to burning (Share > Create Disc). Instead you might want to first try Share > Create Video file > DVD. This will prepare a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 of your project. Then you choose Share > Create Disc > DVD. Clear the burning timeline of anything that appears there, and instead, insert the new mpeg-2 file you just created. Then click on the middle of three icons in the bottom left of the burning screen and make sure 'Do not convert MPEG files' is ticked. Then build your menu and try burning again...

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Ian

Problems with Video Studio failing to render is most likely associated with the content of your project.
You have not provided any details of just what you have used in the timelines.

Ken has recommended creating a video file first, it is a procedure that you should use for your work.
If the render/create video file fails then we would need to investigate the projects content.

Ian your PC specification is also important, please update the details in your profile via the User Control Panel linked at the top of this post.

Burner Module
There seems to be some confusion here, the create disc is performed using several processes.
It may start with Create Title, then Create Menu, Multiplexing, and a few more which I cannot recall at the moment……….
The progress bars show the individual progress of each section (Detailed Progress) and the Total Progress
The % stage is not relevant but the process such as Create Title or Create Menu, will give us some ideas.

[BrianCee]

I do not think the two points you have inspected are valid for the points in the video which may be giving problems - total progress includes any conversion and title rendering plus disc burning and finalising - total progress does not just refer to the length of the actual video, I don't think it's as easy to identify as that.

[Trevor Andrew]

- total progress includes any conversion and title rendering plus disc burning and finalising -

Hi Brian,

that's what i intended to convey. when i said "The progress bars show the individual progress of each section (Detailed Progress) and the Total Progress "

maybe its just bad grammar, apologies.

[BrianCee]

Trevor - no need for apology - If you look at the post timings you will see I was typing as you posted, I was just trying to give the OP information, not correct/explain anything you posted.

Brian

[ianrose]

Thanks for the suggestions.
1. As Ken Berry suggested I ran Share>Create Video File>DVD
2. This failed with the same error messageat 15% again showing on the progress line.
3. The 15% of the total project length of 47' 45" is approximately 7.16' from the start. The content around this point is as follows:
Video Track: A still jpg picture ("Empty Space 2.jpg")
Overlay Track: A chroma key interview ("uvs070505_193509~0.mpg")
4. The interview clip length: 00:06:02:24 to 00:07:20:16
5. The interview was filmed against a green screen and overlaid on the jpg background to give the impression of it being conducted in front of the redevelopment site about which they are talking.
6. In case it helps imediately before the interview is a jpg picture and after the interview a black jpg clip

If the above looks OK would the next step be to delete the interview and re-run "1" above to see if the problen still exists for whatever reason?
Many thanks again

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Ian

As the failure seems to occur at a particular point, you have to explore the content at this point with a view to changing the timelines.
Obviously its difficult to find which timeline is causing the problem.
A matter of trial and error I’m afraid.

Jpeg Images, you indicate using a black Jpeg.
Video studio provides Colour Clips which could replace the coloured Jpegs
View the library Colour page.

I have had problems with Progressive Jpegs, Baseline seem to work better.
Right click a Jpeg and select properties, do they indicate Progressive or Baseline.

Video Content
Right click a clip and select properties, what are they?

[BrianCee]

Ian,

I don't think you taken in the point that Trevor and I made in our posts above - 15% of TOTAL progress is not 15% of video length - it is not that easy to identify exactly where 15% total progress is. - the faults may lie elsewhere in your project - I would suggest that both points are somewhat earlier in the video than you are looking if you have titles etc at the beginning which need rendering.

[ianrose]

I did take your point, Brian, about the 15% but I was just answering the question posed by Black Lab on 1st September.

I've tried various things and out of interest tried the Optimise MPEG option. It resulted in the same error message as might be expected.

Is their any way of nattowing the problem down? Does the following content of the project help at all?
Video track Clips : avi; jpg; panorama jpg; transitions; mpg; VSP
Overlay Tracks: 5 in use
Title Tracks: 2 in use
Audio: .WAV; audio split from mpg
Music: wav; wma; mpa; music from library

Any suggestions welcome as things are getting a bit desparate.
Many thanks
Ian

[Trevor Andrew]

I did take your point, Brian, about the 15% but I was just answering the question posed by Black Lab on 1st September.

I've tried various things and out of interest tried the Optimise MPEG option. It resulted in the same error message as might be expected.

Is their any way of nattowing the problem down? Does the following content of the project help at all?
Video track Clips : avi; jpg; panorama jpg; transitions; mpg; VSP Overlay Tracks: 5 in use
Title Tracks: 2 in use
Audio: .WAV; audio split from mpg
Music: wav; wma; mpa; music from library

Any suggestions welcome as things are getting a bit desparate.
Many thanks
Ian

What do you mean VSP, Have you nested a VSP within your project.?
If Yes
Open the nested VSP and render it to a video file.
Then use the video file in the main project.

If you have trouble opening the VSP or it requests a Re-Link, then you may have found your problem.

[Trevor Andrew]

Quick Time

This has caused some problems for some users, it depended on which version you used, the latest version causing problems, the fix being to un-install and then install an earlier version.
The library audio may use QuickTime.

Do a search of the Forum or Knowledge Base for more info

I have edited this post

If the nested VSP or the Quick Time version is not the problem you have to give us a lot more info……………

You say :- Video track Clips : avi; jpg; panorama jpg; transitions; mpg; VSP

1 / Telling us that you have a Avi doesn’t tell us anything.
Avi is just a container, the video file could be anything.
Right click a clip and select properties, what are they?
Where did they come from?

2 / Jpg Images, as mentioned earlier Progressive jpg have caused me problems
Right click a clip and select properties, what are they?

3 / Did you replace the black Jpg for colour clips from the library?

4/ Panorama Jpg, ?????????? Right click a clip and select properties, what are they?

5 / Mpg video are they HD or standard, Right click a clip and select properties, what are they?

Any one of these could cause problems, so you need to split your project into sections, saving each as a new VSP.
Start by creating two VSP's, rendering each, again split the one that fails, and render again.

Just hard work..........

[ianrose]

Thank you Trevor for your suggestions. Please bear in mind that I am new to VideoStudio, this being the first DVD using this software that I've had to produce.
1. Yes I had nested a VSP file within the project. I have now rendered it and inserted the resultant mpg file without a problem.
2. I didn't realise that mentioning the avi file wouldn't tell you anything. This avi was a Micrposoft avi file pulled in from the Video Library called "HM_Happy Birthday_ Start AVI"
3. The jpg images are all "Base Line"
4. Yes, I replaced the black jpg with the black colour clip from the library.
5. The panorama jpg was also "Base Line"
6. Clicking on Properties for the mpg video produced "MPEG-2 video, Upper Field First, 24 bits" Does that tell you something?
7. I retried to produce the video file and it got to 98% before the error message encountering a problem was returned.

Because of my ignorance of the software, is there any cleaver way of splitting the project into 2 VSP files or is it purely a case of physically deleating half of it?

Many thanks again
Ian

[Black Lab]

Because of my ignorance of the software, is there any cleaver way of splitting the project into 2 VSP files or is it purely a case of physically deleating half of it?

Yes. Let's call your main project Project A. "Cut" it in half. Delete the second half. Save the first half as Project B. Open Project A again, "cut" it in half again, this time deleting the first half, then save the second half as Project C. Now you have the entire project (Project A) and the same project in two halves (Projects B & C).