Posted by DVD Workshop on 01/11/14 11:57

John,

Use something else!

Pete


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.
>
> System is P4 2.4gig, 1Gb ram, XPpro, Audigy2 ZS Radeon 9500 pro graphics all
> SP's and a/v checked. There is plenty of disk space. Video is on a lacie HD
> connected by firewire. I've never had this problem before.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
> John

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