VS X8 Crashes while burning

[bc55]

I have used VS X8 to create DVDs or Blu-ray discs in the past without problems. The content includes video from my Sony Camcorder (.m2ts files), pictures (.jpg) and music (.wav files). My current project is no different in content than the others. However, when I am burning this project to DVD, it stops at a 23% completion rate, with the notice "a problem caused the program to stop working correctly" and VS shuts down. I have tried to burn the project several times, with the same result. I checked if any updates for X8 are available; none were. What can be done, other than starting from the beginning again?

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the forum!

There is a particularly useful post from lata which appeared just today, and addresses your exact problem. Have a read of it at http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php ... 04#p344504 But essentially it suggests first rendering your project to a DVD-compatible mpeg-2 (or Blu-Ray compatible AVCHD or m2ts) file and then inserting that in the burning module for burning to disc.

[bc55]

I followed the instructions and first rendered the project to mpeg-2 file, then attempted to burn it. I noted in the recommendation that when burning, the process would skip the convert title step. Mine did not skip it. It remained on the convert title step for quite a while. The process finally moved to the convert menu process, when it aborted. I tried doing this three times, with the same result. Note that when I was originally trying to burn my project (prior to asking for help from the user group) the project also aborted at the convert menu step.

[Ken Berry]

After you created your new mpeg-2, and opened the burning module, was there anything already there in the burning timeline? If so, then it was not the new mpeg-2 but the project file, and that would still require converting to mpeg-2. So the idea is to delete anything already there, then go to the top left of the burning screen and select Add Media to navigate to the new mpeg-2 and add that. Then proceed from there and you should no longer have the Convert Title during the burning process.

Another way of achieving the same thing is in the Editing module. After producing the new mpeg-2 you create a new project. Don't worry about giving it a name -- the objective is just to have an empty timeline. Then when you open the burning module its timeline should also be empty. And you go to Add Media and proceed as above.

[bc55]

Followed your instructions, and I was able to burn the project. Thank you. One final question...I was able to burn past DVD projects without saving them as a mpeg-2 file. I would complete the project, go to the burn module, and get a completed DVD. Why now a change in procedure? Could I have done something within the project that was causing the burn to abort?

[Ken Berry]

Yes, the way you did things in the past should normally work, but sometimes it doesn't, and it is difficult to pinpoint why. The method I outlined is in fact not a new way of doing things. It is in fact fairly old. A group of us here who have been using Video Studio way back to early versions were finding that sometimes the method you normally use would not work. So we decided to take things step by step to see if that got around the problem. And by using the procedure I outlined it usually did. Moreover, it doesn't take much more time or effort to use it -- just a few extra mouse clicks. And the time taken to convert from project to mpeg-2 will be the same whether done in the Editing module or Burning module. So you don't really lose any time. The whole burning process is a complicated enough process on its own, and throwing in a further complicated process like video conversion, only increases the possibility of something going wrong sometimes. So you can still continue to use your preferred workflow, but just bear in mind that if something goes wrong again, there is another way of doing things which may avoid the problem.