Hi,

I have just loaded some 1197 jpeg images into PD7 from 13 locations and from 2 different hard drives with PD7 positioned on a third hard drive (C). The images were made up of some 700 at around 4mb each and the rest were about 600kb to 1mb.

I have then place all 1197 images into the time-line using highlight/click and drag. All images were placed in the time-line successfully.

I then saved the pds file to a "Test" location on "C" drive.

I closed PD7.

The pds file is 7.16mb in size and re-opened the project next - Ok, it took a couple of minutes to bring everything in... but it did it.

I haven't attempted to edit the files as yet.

Please clarify what else you did so I can replicate it?

thank you.

Dafydd

Hi! Thanks for the quick reply!

Anyway, I selected and dragged 1,080 JPG images around 900KB in size each (dimensions 2272 X 1704)... I know they are large images. Anyway, after dragging the images down into the workspace, I clicked the "Magic Movie Wizard" tool, and I then selected seven MP3 songs for background music. The system generated my movie, I clicked the "home" button, and the software seemed to create a valid timeline, but when I saved (note, I save under a different name each time I save, which is to say, I never reuse a file name), the file size of the resulting PDS is always 1KB, and when I clicked on the "Create Disc" button, I get the "failed insert timeline" error message, and since the software never correctly saves the PDS, I have to start over from scratch. That's the sequence of events. I'm going to cut the number of large images I'm using in half to see if that makes a difference. Thanks for helping!

I found this topic when searching for "failed insert timeline" error message

Using PD7 V. 7.01.1714 with 1.5Gig ram + Windows Vista Home Basic

I created an 85 minute running time project with around twenty WMV clips and exported to AVI as a single 18.6 Gigabyte movie.

With the time line still being the twenty WMV clips and no chapter headers I decided to test create a DVD but on loading the DVD Create Disc page it ran about 16% progress in the popup message "Initializing" and then popped an error message "failed to insert timeline data"

I exited the current PD7 and restarted.

Loading the 18.6 Gb AVI on the timeline I tried again and got as far as being ready to burn, however the project requires 5.1Gb of DVD space.

Trying again I produced a single WMV (768Kbs WMV 9) which was 860 Mbytes. which should burn OK on DVD though I have not tried yet.

So the question is "Why did I get the error when trying to assemble twenty WMVs for the DVD Create Disc ?" I guess its related to the size of the project, though I have burned multi WMV files before of smaller runtime.

Should I send this info back to DP7 Development?

(Beta Team Member)
If you can't solve the problem - Change the problem

Ron,

I need to send you some data.

Dafydd