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Posted by Roberto Divia on 10/05/82 11:57
John Ricketts wrote:
> Please don't just tell me to use something else as I've been using Pinnacle
> now for 3 or 4 years quite successfully so far.
>
> I just sat down to edit an hours footage from my Sony of last weeks hols in
> France. However, I seem to be struggling now for some reason. I have about
> 120 scenes, with perhaps a dozen titles and clock fades. There are 2 slo-mo
> sequences near the end. When you run preview, the sound drops out (and stays
> out) at some random point between scenes 65 and 68. If you click on any
> scene after 65 and review it, the sound plays for a few seconds and stops.
>
> If I try to render the video, it gets to these scenes and hangs (even
> rendering to avi). I have done a clean boot with everything knocked out in
> msconfig, defragged etc and cannot seem to fix it. The source avi plays
> through fine in WMP. I can render successfully up to scene 65. If I delete a
> few scenes from 65, it still hangs in whichever one comes next.
Ciao John,
from your description it sounds like Studio and/or the O.S. are running
out of resources and/or having troubles to compile a specific part of
the project. The AVI way is - I think - the right one. I would break
up the project into smaller units (5 minutes or so) and render them
individually to AVI. Then combine the units either in bigger units or
simply concatenate them for the final product. Breaking the project
into smaller units is rather simple: make a backup copy, then select
from the first break point up to the end and delete, create AVI, back
to edit and undo (this brings back the original), remove the head
(between beginning and break point), save and repeat. If you have
a DVD menu you'll have to remove it first.
If there is a problem in a specific point of the project, by breaking
it you should be able to spot where the problem is. The position of the
scrubber the moment Studio freezes is - in my experience - not always
in the same point the problem lies. I had once a 30' project with a
problem around minute 27 where the scrubber would freeze around minute 1.
I found the faulty point by removing the tail (I had already compiled
when the project was 25' long without problems) and compiling OK.
If instead it is a problem of resources, breaking the original project
into smaller units should solve it.
If you choose to create AVIs with the same parameter as for the project
(you will find a button in the AVI setup screen that does exactly this)
the loss of quality will be zero.
In conclusion, I would like to signal a dedicated webboard for Studio 9:
http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/read_forums.asp?WebboardID=1&SectionID=227&lng=1
Ciao,
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