Kari Jones Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 I just built my first project....very happy with everything...it has taken me atleast 24 hours to do. Project is about 25mins long. I am distressed to find out that I can't render it to MPEG File. The rendering process crashes my laptop. I have tried a number of times, it crashes in various places. It got to 75% then blew up this morning. Please can you advise. I am running off 2GB RAM, I have 3GB of free disk space plus a large external drive. Recently did a disk clean up. I have read posts on switching off Norton, I will try this, this evening....any other ideas are appreciated. Do I need to do an upgrade? Thanks, Kari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ml Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 3GB is not near enough. cd I think the program has to have at least 4 GB on your main hard drive to store the files as it renders. Part of the reason that it's taking so long to render is that it's reading and writing from that external drive. My guess would be that it's crashing when your 2 GB RAM is full and it can't read and write fast enough to the external drive. If there is any way you can free up around 5 GB on your laptop's hard drive and render to that drive, that will not only speed up the process, but probably prevent it from crashing. (10 GB would be better) Please let us know what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golinux Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Did you defrag also? And 3GB is not very much free disk space. I get nervous when I have less than 50GB free!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kari Jones Posted July 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 I wil try a defrag as well. I am running my project and collection files on my external hard drive, which has a significantly more space. Does this issue occur in version 9.0?? Thanks, Kari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 I wil try a defrag as well. I am running my project and collection files on my external hard drive, which has a significantly more space. Does this issue occur in version 9.0?? Thanks, Kari It shouldn't happen in V7! Default temp locations, from tools options or file project settings. Usually put them on the C drive. Like sister says, 3GB is not near enough. cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kari Jones
I just built my first project....very happy with everything...it has taken me atleast 24 hours to do.
Project is about 25mins long.
I am distressed to find out that I can't render it to MPEG File. The rendering process crashes my laptop.
I have tried a number of times, it crashes in various places.
It got to 75% then blew up this morning.
Please can you advise.
I am running off 2GB RAM, I have 3GB of free disk space plus a large external drive.
Recently did a disk clean up.
I have read posts on switching off Norton, I will try this, this evening....any other ideas are appreciated.
Do I need to do an upgrade?
Thanks,
Kari
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