[TCT]

Problem is random. I have a production that has about 400 pictures in it. Periodically, and especially during the last one-fourth of the production, a picture will get encoded as a black screen. If I rerun MyDVDExpress, the problem will occur on a different picture each time. Does not seem to be any pattern to this happening. All my pictures have auto-motion or manual pan/fade actions. There is a "dissolve" transition between most pictures. The problem will happen on pictures that have transitions and pictures that do not have transitions. I can observe the black picture by observing the encoding preview window. Of 400 pictures, sometimes the project only gets 2 pictures erroneously recorded as black . . . sometimes about 6 pictures. Problem is driving me nuts . . . .

Following are some pertinent specs on my system if helpful:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3 GHz
3 GB Memory (RAM)
500 GB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Graphics
Windows VISTA Home Premium SP1
EMC-10

THANKS in advance for any help. . .

[myguggi]

Problem is random. I have a production that has about 400 pictures in it. Periodically, and especially during the last one-fourth of the production, a picture will get encoded as a black screen. If I rerun MyDVDExpress, the problem will occur on a different picture each time. Does not seem to be any pattern to this happening. All my pictures have auto-motion or manual pan/fade actions. There is a "dissolve" transition between most pictures. The problem will happen on pictures that have transitions and pictures that do not have transitions. I can observe the black picture by observing the encoding preview window. Of 400 pictures, sometimes the project only gets 2 pictures erroneously recorded as black . . . sometimes about 6 pictures. Problem is driving me nuts . . . .

Following are some pertinent specs on my system if helpful:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 3 GHz
3 GB Memory (RAM)
500 GB Hard Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Graphics
Windows VISTA Home Premium SP1
EMC-10

THANKS in advance for any help. . .

Hopefully you have created your project in Videowave and saved the project file (will have the dmsm extension). THen launch myDVD and add the VW project file using "Add Movie". myDVD Express is a simple DVD authoring program that has given many users all sorts of problem including the blackouts.

I just noticed that you have another thread going with basically the same problem stated. Its a poor idea to do that since it creates overlapping answers etc.

This post has been edited by myguggi: 01 August 2009 - 08:57 AM