This is just a WAG, but it might be having trouble with one of your transitions. You can try hunting down which one it is.

What I would do, though, is use a binary divide and conquer approach.

Split your project into two separate projects, and try producing eash one separately. If you can't produce either one, then I hope someone wiser will speak up.

If either half your project produces, save that output, split the one that failed, and repeat.

With any luck you'll narrow down the problem (or it will disappear, which would be really annoying).

You can combine the produced pieces later. Jerry Schwartz

Thanks for the reply. No transitions in the video, just a lot of cut edits. Also tried just doing the first five minutes, crapped out at around 15%. Am in the process of reinstalling PD10 after removing a whole bunch of other video editing software. We shall see if that helps.

Quote: Thanks for the reply. No transitions in the video, just a lot of cut edits. Also tried just doing the first five minutes, crapped out at around 15%. Am in the process of reinstalling PD10 after removing a whole bunch of other video editing software. We shall see if that helps.

What happens if you try just the second five minutes? Jerry Schwartz

Haven't tried that. Once I get it reinstalled I will let you know.

Please send us your Dxdiag files. Win 10, i7

Dxdiag files are in the zip attached to my first post.

Okay, got everything reinstalled, tried just doing the first three minutes, then the second three minutes, then the last three minutes. Each got about 50% before crashing. Was able to export the first three minutes to avi, but as expected the quality was unbearably bad. A few seconds later, the program crashed again.

I was able to render a short intro (~20 sec) for the video earlier today, but that was just using a couple of jpegs and a short audio track with some titles.

Really reaching the end of my rope and hope I didn't waste $60 on this program.

Edit: Added new dxdiag files.

OK. Your PC should have no problems rendering any HD video.

For the heck of it, see if you can produce your video WITHOUT any edits first.

- check the following in preferences:
-General, do not select "Enable video processing"
- Hardware Acceleration, do not select "EITHER" option
- in Produce, do not select ANY Fast Video Rendering . .
- make sure Quicktime is updated and the video drivers for your ATI is UNDER revision 12.4 (see other threads) Win 10, i7

Ok, tried the suggestions twice. The first time, the program crashed before I even started producing, the second got about 5% before crashing. Any other ideas?

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JeffD76;
Your original post indicted that you are running "PD Build 10.0.0.1012 " (very old)
Please download and install the latest patch/version of the PD10 Software (now at .1703)
Many items have been fixed since 1012.
http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdirector/patches_en_US.html

You do NOT need to install the interim releases, but there is a new CONTENT PACK 1 (on that update list), that you should also download and install.

Applied the patch. Attempted to render the first three minutes of the edited video, crashed at 51% again. What else ya got?

Hi JeffD76,
Thank you for providing all the information asked of you and carrying out the request to update etc.

First off I'd like to start eliminating "possibles".
1. Please use the sample files and place the Nature.mpg into track 1.
1-1 Add the Nature.mpg x10 - to give the test project some "bite".
2. Go to Produce and select to output as an HD file in MPEG and MP4 selections.

I want to see if you get the same 50% cut off. Using a sample file we all have.

Dafydd

Ok, tried doing the nature x10 at multiple resolutions. Here are the results:

1. MPEG2 - HD 720: finished fine, no crash.
2. MPEG2 - BD 1440x1080: finished production, crashed a few seconds later.
3. MPEG2 - BD 1920x1080: first try, crashed at 10%, second try finished fine. Crashed when I was resetting for first MP4 test.

4. Standard Quality mp4: finished fine.
5. High Quality mp4: first try crashed at 30%. second try, got 93% before crash.
6. Best Quality mp4: first try 40% before crash. second try same 40%.

The only other programs running were iTunes in the background playing music and my browser open to this page.

UPDATE:

Tried splitting original video into smaller parts to produce as MPEG2 HD 720. Got it into four parts: 3 ~3min and 1 ~5.5min. All rendered fine but was getting random crashes during editing and after production. Attempted to combine the first two 3 min clips in the same format, crashed after about 20%.

Just to confirm, do you have shadow files turned off ? Preferences>general> Enable HD video processing> uncheck

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (see below)
Confucius
AMD Phenom IIX6 1055T, win10, 5 internal drives, 7 usb drives, struggling power supply.

Yes shadow files is turned off. Just downloaded a free program called blender. After some tweaking, got the full video to render as an mp4 with no problems. How is a free program able to do something that this one can't seem to on my computer?

Hi Jeff,
Thank you for the additional information. Like everyone one here we are guessing and trying to give you options and possible solutions.

So far your project has been eliminated as the cause of the problem (corrupt files are not present). We have to some degree pointed at your PC and a possible installation/running of the software.
PowerDirector uses all your resources and will reveal hardware failings in your PC quite quickly. You may have HDD failing or Ram that is failing. You may even have too much heat being generated and retained within your PC causing it (parts within the PC to overheat, a build up of dust a failing fan etc) to fall over at critical stress points. I'm more inclined to guess you have a stress problem within your PC.

Please uninstall PDr10 and re-install after a reboot. The aim is to correct any installation issue.
Procedure is:
go to the Control Panel,
Uninstall PowerDirector
Uninstall Contents packs (some leave these in place)
Reboot
Reinstall PDR10
Reinstall Contents packs (if you uninstalled them)
APPLY ACTIVATION KEY
Install latest patch

I am offering an opinion and guessing. I do not have a definitive solution for your issue.

Dafydd

Thank you for your responses, I realize that there could be many problems and I was just getting frustrated yesterday.

As for your suggestion, I already uninstalled and re-installed. I also removed all the other video editing software I had installed (Nero, Creative, etc) and ran CCleaner before re-installing PD10, just to eliminate any possible software conflicts and registry issues.

Also ran a memory test using memtest and a stress test using BurnIn and didn't have any problems with either. I was thinking I may have had some bad RAM because of the exception code contained in the minidump file indicates such, but like I said, the tests I did came back clean.

While I would like to believe that the problem is somewhere with my computer, the fact that I was able to use another (free) program to essentially do the same thing I was attempting with PD10, leads me to believe that it is a software issue.

I would really like to find a solution to this problem since I actually paid money for this and am looking for something that has a simpler interface with a smaller learning curve than Blender seems to have. Thanks for your help, and if you have any other suggestions, I am all ears.