Hi,
download the latest drivers from Nvidia not from windows update.
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I did get the latest drivers (released last week) - and everything else seems to be working fine

are you using shadow files? turn off if you can or wait until flag turns green before editing scanning the timeline

also check the "overlay" setting on the nvidia control panel. RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB GDDR6
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hmm, I don't know what shadow files are... I tried producing just with a few jpgs and that didn't work either.

The length of the produced video is correct, but there's just black screen.

Hi faceless -

Shadow files can be turned on or off in Preferences, under General... "Enable HD video processing (Shadow File)"

At what stage do you get the "Encoding Video" box? I don't recall seeing that???

What is in the project? Details? What format & profile are you using to produce? Details? Something is seriously amiss if you can't even get a working clip out of a few JPEGs!!!

Cheers - Tony
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For this test I put one jpg (tulips.jpg from the auto selection that appears) on the timeline and set it to process as mpeg2. The file output doesn't seem to matter, I've tried avi, mpeg1 and mp4.

I see it actually says 'rendering' and not video encoding... (bottom right corner), that box didn't appear before changing the video card and as you can see, there's no preview.

Oh dear... and it was all perfectly OK before the GPU driver update?

The Procuce screen in PD10 (here, at least) looks like the attachment, unless "Enable Preview During Production" is checked. Do you have the preview option checked or unchecked?

I'd go to Control Panel > Device Manager > Display Adapters... Right click on NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 > Properties. Under the Driver tab, it should say "Driver Version: 8.17.12.9573" - if not, it's not current.

If the driver is current, try selecting "Roll Back Driver" - after restarting the PC, try producing again.

If that doesn't work, then it looks likes a complete uninstall/re-install might be needed. Odd that the driver installation only seems to have affected PD!

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I tried without previewing and it showed similarly to that...

but I checked the driver details and it says it's only 6.14.12.9573 - but it says the date of the file is 09/02/2012 so that's probably got something to do with it.

I'll have a rummage about and get back to you - thanks for the help so far.

What card did you have previously? Often when replacing cards it may be necessary to fully clean out the old drivers and install the new. Nvidia offers details
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_13955.html

Jeff

it was a Radeon 512mb card that I replaced, so I don't think that particular issue should be a problem.

thanks though

It's the 64bit version I'm installing, would that affect the driver number so much?

Quote: it was a Radeon 512mb card that I replaced, so I don't think that particular issue should be a problem.

thanks though

It's the 64bit version I'm installing, would that affect the driver number so much?

You should have un-installed the ATI driver, before removing the ATI card. You can try now, but may get an error.

You need the Nvida 64 bit video drivers for W7 64 bit. Self Built PC - W7 Pro 64 bit w/ SP1
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Quote: it was a Radeon 512mb card that I replaced, so I don't think that particular issue should be a problem.

thanks though

It's the 64bit version I'm installing, would that affect the driver number so much?

It can be even more important when you change between the two brands as you did. Everyone's mileage various though, it's often best to start clean.

Jeff

ok, I'll try cleaning it all out and starting from scratch.

I'm on XP-64bit though, not W7

Quote: ok, I'll try cleaning it all out and starting from scratch.

I'm on XP-64bit though, not W7

You may need to uninstall drivers with the video card installed.

So try uninstall NVIDA, then remove card, put ATI back in and uninstall ATI. Then put your nvida back in and install new XP-64 bit drivers. Self Built PC - W7 Pro 64 bit w/ SP1
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8 gb DDR3-1600 / 1394 Firewire / LG SATA-2 Bluray Burner /
Internal Drives: SATA 3 7200rpm = 1.0-tb, 640 gb, 300 gb /
Pana TM90 / Canon HV30 / Sony HC 7 / Canon M40
Epson 810 DVD-CD printer.

hopefully I won't have to do that much - but I'll try if nothing else works

ok, that seems to have had some effect - I can now produce a video as long as it's only 1 clip long... if I add anything else to it, it won't produce (though it still works for as long as it would take to process normally)

that was just after de-installing the previous drivers though - so I'll try the full backtrack tomorrow.

I second KentuckyRandy.
Simple rule
Never pull out anything without uninstalling the driver that came with it. Going one step further
After uninstalling reboot and run a disk cleaner like CCleaner to shred remnants of the driver files that got uninstalled PC specs :
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