Error message: The maximum number of video clips is 99

[rwalker66]

I just got back from a cruise and my HD camcorder makes each scene a clip, so I have 362 clips. I tried to do "add clips" in DVDMF7 and got the error message "The maximum number of video clips is 99". Well 99 clips only comes to 37 minutes and I would prefer not to have to make 4 DVDs to contain the 362 clips. Is there a way around this? Can I do "join clips" 4 different times and then join the 4 joined clips together?

[Ron P.]

Merry Christmas..

It seems that DVD MF7 is treating your clips as Chapters, and not Titles. As far as I know there is a 99 Chapter limit [per title. Yes you can join clips. Select the clips (titles) you want to join, then the Join Clips button will be available.

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[rwalker66]

Merry Christmas. I combined the 99 clips to one clip and hit save. I went to add some more clips to the clip list so i could combine them and the program crashed before I could even add them to the clip list. Now every time I try to re-open the program it shows the one clip but then crashes before I can do anything. I have Windows 7 and notice there is a compatibility issue, so I am running the program in Windows XP mode. Could this compatibility issue be causing the crashes? Even after telling Windows to run the program in Windows XP mode I still get the below error message saying it's an incompatible application. Any advice?

[Ken Berry]

That's very strange. I run Windows 7 now on most of my computers, and have MF 7 SE on this one, and MF 7 Pro on another, but running Win 7. On neither of them have I ever received any compatibility message. I am running them, moreover, in straight Win 7 mode.

[rwalker66]

Here's another message where it says DVDMF is incompatible with Windows 7. I switched to Windows XP mode as you can see, but it still crashes.

[rwalker66]

OK, I think I've found out how to stop it from crashing when loading the project file - just don't touch anything when the project file opens. I think I need to wait for this blue line thing to go away from below the clip. The red thing is flashing too. Does this mean the clip is loading?

When adding the 99 clips I had to also wait until this blue line thing went across every clip before I could combine them or do anything, or else the program crashed. This blue line thing has been there about 40 minutes now. Not sure if it will ever go away. Also you can see it says my project is too big at 5.26 GB (it goes well into red at the other end) but I did a DVD project a couple months ago where the video came to over 8GB and it fit on a standard DVD. Is this because it compresses the video before burning or something like that? I remember it showed well into the red, but when I got to the last screen where you burn it the project showed all green (acceptable for burning on a standard DVD).