Render Crashing

[RickMen]

I am currently working on a 17 min project using DV AVI format, when I go to render the file it crashes at about the 70% mark, the dialog box justs disappears, no movie clip is created but VS is still up and running in all other respects. I switched off "smart render" but it still died at the same spot (70% stage). This has never happen to me before with any other project (whether using DV AVI or HD type formats & running times exceeding 17mins). I did try using the duration option on the Render dialog box where I set it to 30 sec, VS generated about 34 clips (of 30 sec each - it render 30sec then create a movie clip then move onto the next 30 sec and create another separate movie clip), I played each clip and all where okay.

Any suggestions on how I go about fixing it?

[DVDDoug]

I'm going to guessthat there is some corruption in the video-data at that spot in your original file. If you can work-around it by splitting the file, go for it.

Problems with DV are very rare, but when "weird stuff" happens with MPEG the file often plays OK, so you are not aware of any problems... But, a mysterious glitch causes problems with editing or rendering.

If you have the tape you can try re-capturing, but my other guess is that whatever is causing the problem also exists on the original tape.

[Black Lab]

I agree that DV-AVI usually doesn't cause problems. So what else is at your 70% mark? Transition, F/X, audio? Any of these can be come corrupt. Try eliminating one by one until you find the culprit.

[RickMen]

I found the issue, it seem to be crashing at a point where on the music track there was a cross fade between the end of a smart track and the start of another WAV file, when I removed the cross fade between the 2 files the problem seem to disappear and I could render the entire project. I'm sure that in the past I have had numerous other projects where I have cross faded smart tracks with WAV files without any issues but for some unknown reason it just didn't seem to like it in this instance - go figure!

Every cloud has a silver lining, on the upside I learnt how to render a small portion of the project, a good tool for any future debugging I may need to do.

Thanks for your assistance.