Movie Factory Pro 7 keeps craching during burning

[redsunset]

I have put together a one hour video with meuns with my new pro 7. It burns well until it gets to 33% 'Building Motion background of the menu page 3/3' and always crashes at the same place. I have tried reinstalling. I have installed both patches. I have cleared everything off my computer to give it tons of space. What should I do?

Sarah

[Ron P.]

First I would try not using the Menu-In/Menu-Out options. There have been problems reported when using them.

[redsunset]

-Many htnaks. It worked brilliantly.

I still have one last (I hope) problem.

When I edited a couple of the videos in Video Studio 3 and published them in AVI they had a very light scuffing sound which was not on the mpg that I made for Youtube.

Now that I have made a DVD with Movie Factory Pro 7 the sound has appeared on more videos and is more severe.

I am not sure if it is a problem in VS or MF or both.

What can I do about it?

Best regards

Sarah

P.S. This forum is brilliant.

[Ron P.]

First I see that you're talking about 2 different formats (compression) just with the video aspect, AVI (which could be any one of hundreds), and MPEG. We need to look at the codecs involved. When you say "published them in AVI", are you referring to RAW uncompressed, DV, Xvid, DivX..? Looking at the drop-down menu for Compression on the AVI tab here's what my VS X3 has available:

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Then for several of the AVI codecs, we have these options available for Audio Codecs and attributes:

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PCM or LPCM audio is RAW uncompressed audio and would provide you with about the best there is to offer. Whereas MPEG audio, Dolby are compressed. Some of the attributes could provide you with a less than desirable result. For example if your source is recorded at 16bit Stereo 44.100kHz and you render your project to 8 bit Mono 2200kHz the audio quality would not be that good. Then on the flip side using a very low mono setting then rendering it to high Stereo or Dolby Surround could result in poor quality.

If you did not have this scuffing noise in the MPEG file you rendered for YouTube, look at the properties of that file, and try to match them (the audio) if possible. It could also be that the source files had this scuffing noise but was not detected until after processing, where it was recoded, thus degrading the audio quality enough to make it noticeable. Did you use the same source clips in your projects with scuffing noise, as those in the YouTube MPEG?

[redsunset]

Thank you for your answer. Took a bit of time to get my head around it. In answer to your questions:

a) I was using the default AVI setting under Make Video - DV 4:3
b) Yes I made the AVI one and the Youtube MPG at the same time from the same material, same project, just used the send to Youtube function.

Have looked at my settings which might have been slightly reset subsequently (before I knew I had this problem by a friend). I They are now:

Compression - none
Format -PCM
Attributes - 48,000 Khz 16 bit stereo

Many thanks

Sarah