Problems with Producing Movies to Hard Drive

max0331

Member Location: Iowa Joined: Dec 29, 2010 13:58 Messages: 52 Offline

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Dec 29, 2010 14:11

I just got PD9 and finished my first movie. Its about 21 minutes long and everything went smoothly enough. Lots to learn still.

So I click on PRODUCE and I have a list of options for file types. I will ultimatly create a DVD with multiple movies on it so I figured I'd go with MPEG-2 (for some reason I thought this would be the best file for DVD's, but not really sure).

It takes about 30 mins to render. I open the folder it was saved to and there it is. A Thumb of the start of the movie. So I decide to watch in on the computer to see how it turned out and an error message popped up saying it was an invalid file type (or something of the sort).

So I decide to re-produce it in the AVC format (decided on this by reading the descriptions). It finishes and the same thing happens. There is an error.

So before work this morning I try again with the .MOV file type. Havent tried it yet to see if it works....

I'm just wondering if anyone may know what the problem may be. I would think that these files should be able to be viewed on my PC (Vista).

Anyone have any ideas on what to check? Thanks in advance.

All vodi

Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

Dec 29, 2010 20:58

Max

We need MUCH MUCH more detail to be able to help you out. Give us another try. Win 10, i7

max0331

Member Location: Iowa Joined: Dec 29, 2010 13:58 Messages: 52 Offline

Dec 30, 2010 20:52

I will be more specific if what I'm trying right now won't work..

I currently have Windows Vista 32bit. After going through to make sure the Computer was up to date, I realized it has been trying to download Service Pack 1 for quite some time now. I would go to windows update, it would tell me that SP1 is ready to be downloaded. I would start the download and it would stay at 0% then eventually "time out."

After several attempts, I went directly to Microsoft to download it there. It downloaded, but wouldn't install. I bought my PC from Dell a few years ago and called them. They are sending me new disks, the 64bit version this time. I'm guessing something along the way has been corupted and I'm not computer savy enough to figure it out on my own. Since my PC was mainly for gameing until recently, there isn't a bunch of stuff other than Pics and Vids to back up which I'm currently working on.

Once done, I'm going to do a clean install and basically start over. I have an XPS 420, which is a Quad 4 processor (I forget the speed, am posting this from work), with 4 gig of Ram. I've upgraded a few things along the way, ie graphics card and power supply.

I will post a proper response if this whole process dosn't work with all the information you would require to help me resolve this problem.

Thank you for your interest in helping me. I'll update this thread either way and let you know how things went.

-Max

PepsiMan

Senior Contributor Location: Clarksville, TN Joined: Dec 29, 2010 01:20 Messages: 1054 Offline

Jan 01, 2011 00:24

hey max see my answer to your ? on http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/15013.page production file type.

turn over, crawl, walk, then run!

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