rendering

[john chapple]

Hi. I am trying to render a 40 minute project as a blu-ray H264 1920x1080 file that I can then play on windows media player. I normally have no problems on short 5 min projects but on this one it tells me "frame 2914 unreadable" how do i find frame 2914? please

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi John

You are in the UK and as such using Pal, that uses 25 fps.

Unfortunately the timeline rule is calibrated in Hrs-Min-Sec-Frames

Using a calculator you should be able to convert, dividing 2914 by 25 gives 116.56 seconds and so on.

Its just short of 2 minutes

0hr 1min 56sec 14 frames I think

[john chapple]

Hi Trevor, thanks for your help, I did what you suggested found the clip, deleted it and rendered again and the same message came up, so it can't be anything to do with the clip itself. Is it a fault of the programme, a glitch or something. It's no use if this programme won't allow projects over 20 mins to render as I want to make films of an hour and over at times....HELP! please

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi john

I don’t ever remember anyone else reporting this error?

Can you give details of your video file, right click a clip in the timeline and select properties, what are they.?
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The frame 2914 should be the project frame if you get my meaning.
What other clips if any are in that position on other timelines. ie at 1 min 56 sec

When you render the project I assume you are doing Share Create Video File – what do you choose then?

From the Create Video File window choose Options then deselect Smart Render, does that make any difference?

[john chapple]

Hi Trevor
The create video window doesn't seem to give an options so can't deselect smart render.

When creating a video file I choose H264 blue-ray

Properties of clip...PAL HDMV...File size 72,758 KB...duration 90.720 seconds Video H.264 video upper field first....total frames 2,268...attributes 24 bits 1920x1080 16:9...frame rate 25.000 f?s...data rate variable bit rate max 16800kbps Audio...Dolby digital audio...total samples 4,354,560 samples....attributes 48000 HZ layer none bit rate 256 kbps

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Go to Share Create Video File
If “same as first clip” is available choose that, this should render using the video files properties.

The following window allows you to give it a “name” and “save in”
To the lower right should be three buttons Save, Cancel and Options
Press the Options then deselect Perform Smart Render. (are you saying you cannot see the Options button?)

If this fails, I can only suspect a corrupt clip?
save your project giving it a new name, your creating a copy of the project.
Delete/remove everything from the timeline up to 2 minutes, that should get rid of any corrupt files/clips.
Try rendering again.