[Old Ranter]

I am trying to create a single AVI output made up from about 15 individual scenes each of which has been separately rendered as an AVI file using Videowave. If I create a Videowave storyboard including all of the AVI files, and then try to render that, it always crashes before completing, several times, frustratingly, only 3 frames short of the end. I don't get an error message other than "Videowave has to close, sorry" The total length is around 78 minutes. The individual scenes occasionally gave me the same problem, but persistance eventually produced a result in all cases. The scenes vary from about 2 minutes up to about 8 minutes.

I've tried using about half of the total length, just over 38 minutes, but with no more success.

There's plenty of disc space and I have recently defragged the disc.

Any suggestions? I've tried about 50 times so far. I'm starting to lose the will to continue.

[sierratech.net]

I am trying to create a single AVI output made up from about 15 individual scenes each of which has been separately rendered as an AVI file using Videowave. If I create a Videowave storyboard including all of the AVI files, and then try to render that, it always crashes before completing, several times, frustratingly, only 3 frames short of the end. I don't get an error message other than "Videowave has to close, sorry" The total length is around 78 minutes. The individual scenes occasionally gave me the same problem, but persistance eventually produced a result in all cases. The scenes vary from about 2 minutes up to about 8 minutes.

I've tried using about half of the total length, just over 38 minutes, but with no more success.

There's plenty of disc space and I have recently defragged the disc.

Any suggestions? I've tried about 50 times so far. I'm starting to lose the will to continue.

Have you tried output to MPEG-2 to see if it's just AVI related?

If the rendering fails on other formats, does it play in VIDEOWAVE without a hitch?

Are all the images on the local hard drive (Not external USB or Network)?

This post has been edited by sierratech.net: 10 April 2007 - 01:44 PM

[Old Ranter]

Have you tried output to MPEG-2 to see if it's just AVI related?

If the rendering fails on other formats, does it play in VIDEOWAVE without a hitch?

Are all the images on the local hard drive (Not external USB or Network)?

Thanks for the suggestion. It worked with MPEG-2, three times out of three, so I guess it's an AVI thing. MPEG-2 will be Ok as it will eventually end up on a DVD. Any thoughts why I'm having an AVI problem? Everything in the project has been AVI, from capture to final production.

[sierratech.net]

Thanks for the suggestion. It worked with MPEG-2, three times out of three, so I guess it's an AVI thing. MPEG-2 will be Ok as it will eventually end up on a DVD. Any thoughts why I'm having an AVI problem? Everything in the project has been AVI, from capture to final production.

Couple of things:

Do you have enough Hard Drive Space for a 78 minute AVI (about 15 GBYTES)?

Have you defragmented your drive lately?

An MPEG-2 will end up quite a bit smaller in size (due to compression).

One more question (this is an obvious one but sometimes people miss it): is your drive formatted as an NTFS?

-Bob

[John T Smith]

May (or may not) be related... I was having problems creating a DVD or ISO, and was told to go directly to MyDVD, instead of calling that application from the main program, due to "some kind" of conflict between the main program and MyDVD

http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=20685