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Taking Forever in "Producing"...???
William [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 19, 2008 11:02 Messages: 4 Offline
[Post New] Jan 19, 2008 20:50
Oh Boy......
I have been working on a Christmas
movie that is 43 minutes long....Its a special
deal cuse my 90 year old Mother from Connecticut got
to spend her first Christmas with my full family..a beautiful
10 day event... So I need to have this DVD come out in A#1
shape...!!
My PDS file is 4.2 Megs....
When I try to conver it to an MPEG2
file, I naturally go through all the
steps in setting up the "Production
Wizard", to creat a MPEG2 file, I
asume I need this before I can burn a
DVD.
I set up a MPEG2 Profile...Then go
into "Creating a Video File"......
The program took off and only
processed 59% after 11 hours, realizing
that this could be going on for 20
hours, and that it could not be
right...I aborted and tried again,
carefully checking my steps, after 9
hous it was up to 44% ...
I check the rendering issue and it was
all RED...
After 21+ hours I do have a MPG file.
it is the file above that I "Aborted",
so I know the system works..BUT THE
TIME ELEMENT...20 hours..and if you
were to make a slight correction you
film ..another 20 hours to see the
results of your correction...I am a
convetr'd from Pinnacle 10 and their process
took just minutes, etc..
What can I do to speed the process
up...I have reloaded the entire
program, regedit, etc, downloaded the latest
patch..
Once I had a MPEG file I proceeded to make
a DVD disk, after 8 hours I aborted "Making A Disk",
and took the file to NERO and burn't a DVD...it was only fair
quality, nothing I would want to show the family....

Help

-Bill



-Bill
kc4pe@mindspring.com
Dafydd B [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline
[Post New] Jan 21, 2008 13:03
Bill,

Thanks for the posting. The way the posting appears (copy and pasted) on the forum... have you already asked Customer Support for an answer? It isn't easy to read!

You have asked a number of points.
Basically you're opting to create an Mpeg2 by selecting Produce and it's taking an age. You are also opting to use Nero (A program I wouldn't have on my computer) to write the mpeg2 to disc.

You haven't mentioned the format you have in the time-line or the alterations and additions you've made. You also haven't stated what OS or PC capability you have. These are factors that need to be considered. What length is the video in the time-line?

Nero can clash with PD write and render process.

I suggest you check the contents of the project for a corrupt file. I also suggest you consider editing/outputting in smaller chucks as the professionals do.

Multiple save the pds (save as and then change a good number of pds') and reduce the contents in the project so you can edit in smaller chucks - isolate the problem yourself.

Read: http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/2405.page
Apply Part A and consider Part C

Dafydd

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William [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jan 19, 2008 11:02 Messages: 4 Offline
[Post New] Jan 21, 2008 22:12
Good idea ...redo the program in chunks...--produce---burn till you hit the problem.....
The machine is a 6600 dual core..3 Megs RAM...runing XP Pro....
Nero was the only thing I had lying around to burn a DVD out of the Mpeg file..
What burning program would you recommand as a backup...
The length of the time line is 43 minutes....

-Thanks,

-Bill
RobertJ/OZ [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne Australia Joined: Aug 14, 2006 02:26 Messages: 1209 Offline
[Post New] Jan 21, 2008 23:54
Hi William,

Neither Dafydd or I use Power Director to burn, we save to HD and then burn with Power2Go 6, you will have less burning issues.

Regards

Robert Intel i7 930, 16GB ram, Radeon HD 5770 1Gb,Ver. 14.12 Win7 64 bit
Intel i7 7700 HQ, 16 GB ram Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4GB dual drives 1 TB SSD + 1 TB HDD Win 10

PDtoots
Dafydd B [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline
[Post New] Jan 22, 2008 10:25
Hi,

I burn a project to a folder on my Hard Drive. I also use any spare capacity on a DVD to store additional files,such as the jpegs used to create a slide-show. I store the images in a separate folder.

The method comes from video editing when CPU size wasn't as big as they are today.

Dafydd

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