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DVD Architect 3.0…..error when processing MPEG
Hey Guys,
I need help….I’m a couple of weeks past my deadline on this project and time is of the essance. I’ve got a pageant I’m working on that I rendered out of Vegas 6 to mpeg2. The project took a whole week (Tuesday to Tuesday) to render and it came out to close to 7GB.
There was no way I could wait that long to render again, so I called another production company and they compressed the file down to a little below 4GB to put on DVD and rendered AC3 audio separately.
Now everything seems fine…the file plays back fine and I have my DVD ready to be created except when I go to create my DVD, right at the very end an error message pops up and it reads:
Warning: An error occurred while writing a file.
Invalid data was encountered when processing an MPEG file.I have tried this several times and the error still occurs. I even tried just preparing the files and not burning the DVD and the message occurs.
There’s not an option for more details, but if anybody has a solution on how to get Architect to process my file, I’d sure appreciate it.
Thanks!
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[Chris Franklin] The project took a whole week (Tuesday to Tuesday) to render…
A week to render?
That’s insanely long 🙁
Were you using a Pentium 200?
My longest render was 20 hr. and that was for a 2 hr. NTSC to PAL conversion.
Unless your project had a LOT of FX, my suspicion is that you accidentally lowered Track Opacity or something similar by a very small amount (like 1%).…and it came out to close to 7GB.
Another good reason for using a bitrate calculator to determine optimum settings before you do the render.
“…I called another production company and they compressed the file down to a little below 4GB to put on DVD and rendered AC3 audio separately.”
Did they use Vegas or was it some other app?
If it was some other app, maybe it creates an MPEG stream that DVDA doesn’t like. -
Unless your project had a LOT of FX, my suspicion is
The total project time is 2 hrs. 17 min. In addition to normal color correction and saturation boost, I used Sony Light Rays. Every time I use this effect (commercials, plays, etc.), it makes for an extremely long render, but never this long. The longest time I’ve had to wait is probably 2 days. I just started using this effect about a month or two ago because it gives the video a nice soft, glowy look.
Were you using a Pentium 200?
I should know the answer to this and what is good and not good, but I’m lacking in that area. Right now I know what I need to do to get things done and I do it. Everything else, I have to pick up along the way.Under system properties it says the following:
Computer:
Intel(R)
Pentium (R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
2.40 GHz, 512 MB of RAMI see what it says, but I’m not sure if I completely understand it all. I see that I have a Pentium 4 and 512 MB of Ram (not sure what the 2.40Ghz means). — Is this good?
Another good reason for using a bitrate calculator
This is something else that I’m learning along the way…I used a bitrate calculator for 77 minutes and it told me 6532kbps. I then converted that to 6 688 768 bps. I put this figure in the Average and left 8,000,000 for Max and 192,000 for min.I saw where you used a calculator for someone else…Could you put these figures in your calculator and let me know what you come up with?
Did they use Vegas or was it some other app?
They used something else. Some kind of compressor program.Thanks for your feedback.
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> I used Sony Light Rays. Every time I use this effect (commercials, plays, etc.), it makes for an extremely long render
Well… at least you realize what’s causing the problem. Using FX like this across an entire project requires a powerful PC or, as you have seen, it takes days to render.
> I have a Pentium 4 and 512 MB of Ram (not sure what the 2.40Ghz means). — Is this good?
No, it’s not really that good. Pentium 4’s are very old technology. Most modern PC’s sold at BestBuy and other chain stores have a QuadCore (4 cores) processor. Older technology uses DualCore (2 cores) processors. You have 1 core. Getting a new QuadCore PC has the potential to shorten your render times by 4x. Your 2 day render would be done in 1/2 day.
512MB of memory is also far too little and is probably the bottleneck in your current PC. Increasing that to 1MB would make renders run faster because Vegas would have more memory to work with.
> The total project time is 2 hrs. 17 min
> I used a bitrate calculator for 77 minutes and it told me 6532kbps
> Could you put these figures in your calculator and let me know what you come up with?2 hrs 17 minutes is 137 minutes which comes out to a bitrate of approximately 3352kbps. 77 minutes is only 1 hr 17 minutes which is why you got a 7GB file instead of a 4GB file.
> They used something else. Some kind of compressor program.
I would venture to guess that this program created a file that was incompatible with DVD Architect. What you might want to do is place the 7GB MPEG file into a new project and render it using 3,352,000 as the average bitrate and see how long that takes to render. It might not take that long.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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John, your response was extremely helpful. I’m in the process of rendering the 7GB file (Feel very very dumb about 77 minute thing — what was I thinking….).
Getting a new QuadCore PC
Do I have to actually buy a new PC or can I buy a new processor? Not exactly sure what it is though. Does it connect straight into the mother board or can it go in a slot? Or is it the whole nuts and bolts of the machine and I need to buy a new one? -
You need to buy a new computer for quad processor (or build it yourself, which usually ends up to be more expensive then a brand name at Best Buy). On ebay you can get a quadcore for about $600.
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> Do I have to actually buy a new PC or can I buy a new processor?
If you are staying current with upgrades, there are times that you can just buy a new processor. Unfortunately, your motherboard is too old to support the new processor technology and so it is best to get a new PC because after you buy a new motherboard to support the processor, you will need new memory to support the new motherboard, and at that point you have spent enough money to buy a new PC anyway.
If you don’t have a lot to spend, HP has QuadCore PC’s starting at $699 with 3GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive. If you want to go with a boutique builder, a company like iBuyPower.com has the latest Intel Core i7 PC’s starting at $999. This will give you effectively 8 cores because each of the 4 cores is hyper-threaded to process 2 threads simultaneously.
This is a big decision because all of the new QuadCore PC’s come with Windows Vista 64-bit and your copy of Vegas 6 is not supported on Windows Vista (although it will run) along with a lot of other software and peripherals that you might own. This means software upgrades too. You have to take all of that into account when you decide to upgrade. HP Workstations (business not consumer) still have an option to get Windows XP but they cost more (and are built better).
~jr
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Thanks guys for all your help. I rerendered my 7GB file and it only took about 4 hours….so far things are going good. I’m about to reset some of my chapter markers and tweak the menus. Hopefully it’ll burn okay.
On ebay you can get a quadcore for about $600.
I bought the computer I use now about 3 years ago off ebay for $250! It already had Vegas installed and some other software. I just bought a JVC DV500 for just a little over $1,000 (new cost about $5,000) off ebay. Ebay has been my life saver 🙂 (along with creative cow).Thanks guys!
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