Out of memory- when adding chapters

SilverAlfa

Newbie Joined: Mar 30, 2008 05:55 Messages: 12 Offline

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Jun 06, 2010 12:20

Hi !

I hope someone could help me with my problem.

I have about 190 m2ts files imported from my Sony camera. I've created a project with all of them, did some editing and added a menu. The total duration after all of above - about 53 min. I've selected "Create disc", then AVCHD 8.5 GB, and started burning into a folder (estimated size 7971 MB). Everything went fine, the AVCHD perfectly playable in my PS3.

I have Windows 7 Enterprise, 4GB RAM. During burning, used memory (in task manager) dis not jump over 2.5 GB.

Now, the problem : I tried, after that, to add chapters (14). I've started burning again, and after a short time, (not even 10% of disc creation), burning stops and the following message is displayed :
Burning unsuccessful.
Possible causes:
Transcoding engine's front end stream error
Might be due to:
1. Broken or missing source file
2. Out of system memory.

During this burning process, used memory started to grow from 1.5 GB to almost 3 GB. Then, the error.

I've retried at least 4 times, and even restarted Windows.

Could someone, please, help me with that ?

Thanks,

Matei

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jun 06, 2010 12:27

Hi Matei -

It sounds like it may be a menu issue. On the first AVCHD DVD you burnt (successfully), was there a menu?

Cheers - Tony
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SilverAlfa

Newbie Joined: Mar 30, 2008 05:55 Messages: 12 Offline

Jun 06, 2010 13:17

Hi Tony !

Yes, it was a menu, one of the "original" ones, that came with PD.

Matei

Cap'n Kevin

Senior Contributor Location: Chebeague Island, Maine Joined: Dec 26, 2008 20:22 Messages: 2011 Offline

Jun 06, 2010 13:34

Hi Matei,

Could you specify which menu was selected that caused your problem. Thank you....

Regards,

Kevin

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SilverAlfa

Newbie Joined: Mar 30, 2008 05:55 Messages: 12 Offline

Jun 07, 2010 04:28

Kevin and Tony,

I wanted to say that I was no sure it was from the menu, but, in the mean time, I did the following :
- tried to create a disc with NO MENU, and it worked !
- tried again one disc WITH menu, but different than the first one. I didn't manage to do it with any animated menu. Looking in Task Manager, I can see that the application "MotionMenuGeneratior" starts using more and more memory, and when it goes over 1 GB (!) the burning process stucks, with no error message, every time at 45%. I have to kill the task using Task Manager.

However, if I use a static menu, it works !

Matei

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Jun 07, 2010 04:40

Hey Matei!

Good on you, for getting back and posting the results.

Glad you solved it with a bit of mucking about. I, personally, gave up on using the installed menu templates a while back. I have a few that I made from scratch & modify them whenever I need a menu. They work flawlessly every time.

Good job - cheers -

Tony
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SilverAlfa

Newbie Joined: Mar 30, 2008 05:55 Messages: 12 Offline

Jun 07, 2010 07:28

Thanks Tony !

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Jun 07, 2010 07:37

Hi SilverAlfa,

I've read through your post and see no-one has asked the below questions.

Please state what PD8 build you're using?
Have you applied the latest patch to bring you up to 2704? http://www.cyberlink.com/downloads/support/powerdirector/patches_en_US.html
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PART A
1. First Method:
PowerDirector Version build
Open PowerDirector
Select Help > About
Note down the information in the pop up display
The information is the version build of PowerDirector, used to identify what PowerDirector you are using.

2. Second Method:
Click on the name PowerDirector - top right of the User Interface

General Guide info:
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http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7958.page
Subject: PowerDirector - information we request and tasks to carry out.
PART A - name it
PART B - provide it
PART F - use them
PART E - an alternative
PART D - presentation is important

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Dafydd
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SilverAlfa

Newbie Joined: Mar 30, 2008 05:55 Messages: 12 Offline

Jun 07, 2010 07:50

Hi Dafydd !

Yes, I have applied the last build, 2704.

I'll browse through the rest of the info. you provided (General Guide info: ) and revert.

Matei