• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  DVD Studio Pro Crashed every time I try to import a Quicktime Movie . . .

  Posted by Nicksly on March 9, 2007 at 4:12 pm

  Help Me Cow!

  Every time I try to import a quicktime movie to DVD Studio Pro the program crashes.
  The file is no different then other quicktime movies I have imported in the past, so I can’t
  figure this one out.

  The program will import jpg’s but not the quicktime movie.

  Any help from the massive Cow Brain would be greatly apprecitated.

  Nick

  Paul Dickin replied 19 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Nicksly

  March 9, 2007 at 4:32 pm

  To continue with my troubleshoot. I tried dragging the preferences to the trash. The problem persists.

  n
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  J. Tad newberry

  March 10, 2007 at 9:12 am

  trashing prefs was going to be my big piece of advice…but you did it. have you tried re-capturing or re-rendering the QT file (however it was made in the first place)? i’m guessing that file is corrupted and causing the crash.

  personally, i never use QTs in DVD SP4, so i gave it a try after your post. the 3 files i tried imported fine and played back great off the menus in simulation mode, which makes me wonder why i (we?) don’t just use QTs more often when making DVDs. it seems like it would save one step of compression.

  any ideas?
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  Paul Dickin

  March 10, 2007 at 10:03 am

  [NickSly] “Every time I try to import a quicktime movie to DVD Studio Pro the program crashes.”
  So a) try with different QT movies. If they work then DVD SP is OK, its the movie that’s the problem.
  Then b) remake your movie, either in the application is was created in, or by Exporting it to a new recompressed movie in QT Pro.

  [mortimer heathcliff] “why i (we?) don’t just use QTs more often when making DVDs. it seems like it would save one step of compression. “
  Correct. If you are using DVD SP’s basic mode’s interface creation bells and whistles, then your motion menus are all going to be recompressed, so its better to use less compressed (non-Mpeg2) assets.

  However a big percentage of the viewers of this forum will be using DVD SP’s Advanced mode, and will create all their menu and motion menu ingredients in other external applications, and will use Compressor to encode the main movie assets (which won’t be recompressed by DVD SP), and will indeed bring in .psds and lightly or uncompressed menu loops to build the menus, using DVD SP to do a once-only encode when the DVD is finally built after authoring.

  So you asked exactly the right question. You’ve just got to have the courage of your own convictions to devise for yourself (with a little help from your friends here :-)) a workflow that doesn’t make compromises – like encoding Mpeg-2s twice…

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