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DVD Architect 5.2 Render Freeze at 84% and 98%
Hey gang! So… worked through all those Sony Vegas Pro 11 blues and finally created a DVD with menus in DVD Arch 5.2 (Build 133). When I preview it I am delighted with everything. It is 53 minutes long and tops out at 4.2GB so that isn’t why it freezes. I’ve made 18 prior projects successfully and thought I had it down pat. My DVD Arch project freezes when rendering at either 84% or 98%, and the ticker just keeps on accounting for the elapsed time like it wants to finish but no cigar.
I am a home editor doing family vaca stuff:
HP Pavalion a6628f PC
Vista 64, duel core, 4gb RAM.
Modest Adeon Vid card but better than the nVidia that came stock.As you can see I am adequately armed even with a 3 year old computer. I used SONY Movie Studio 9 Platinum for years with zero headache, but this Pro version (bug wise) has been a challenge.
Does anyone have a suggestion how I can render my final DVD with success? (no freezing). I just want to render, burn, and move on to new pastures. Thanks!
Eddie McCracken
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For starters you could ‘save-as’ a copy of the project to a new directory, with the media files (drop down box below filename). Rename the original folder so it can’t be found by DVDA. Re-boot (can’t hurt) open the new copy and attempt a DVD. This should clear up a lot of problems. If the build fails, open each media file in Vegas to see if any are damaged in some way.
Good luck,
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64
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Quick response! Thank you! I will attempt all mentioned advice and let you know what happens.
Cheers!
EddieEddie McCracken
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My DVD Arch project freezes when rendering
Well, this may be part of the problem. You do not want DVDA to re-encode your video – any re-encode compromises video quality. You encode the video in Vegas using the appropriate DVD Architect template and bitrate settings. All DVDA should do is prepare the vob file structure (for DVD) or the iso file for Blu-Ray.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Stephen is right. Even if you did use one of the templates, DVDA may have to re-encode your stuff, just because you put too much on one DVD.
Here’s how it works, You have 1, 45 minute movie rendered with Mpeg-2 using DVDA template in Vegas. This will encode just fine on a 4.7GB DVD. If you have 3 of these 45 minute videos and try to fit them on one DVD you will be forced to re-compress in DVDA because your total size is too much.
This is where Mark’s DVD Bitrate calculator comes in. When you add up all the items, videos, motion menus, subtitles, etc., the calculator can tell you what VBR bitrate settings to encode your video at to get the best quality in the space available.
You can get ‘Mark’s” here: https://www.johncline.com/bitcalc110.zip
There will be a learning curve to understand it all, but you will be glad you did.Jeff
Labels: bitrate calculator, VBR Calculator, Mark’s
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64
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okay… hands down, you guys are way smarter than I in this arena, but hear me out 1 time… I’ve done this 18 times before successfully with no compromise in vid quality, and then I switch to Vegas Pro 11 and I can’t make it work.
I rendered my SVP11 project in Vegas (not DVDA). I also rendered a nice moving main menu and a little chapter search menu in SVP11. Then I open DVDA, change the initial main menu b.g. and audio from my rendered main menu, drop in my rendered feature (53 minutes) which typically I always try to keep it under 106 minutes for compression reasons, and then I right right on that feature and add the menu which breaks down the chapters from my orange markers on the original project. All of this measures out in the lower right hand corner of DVDA as 4.3GB! Perfect by all my other projects for not pushing the compression envelope. I’m thinking shoe in at this point.
Now I even did all the suggestions regarding switching directories with media files joining it and hiding the name from prior post. That did not help (still froze at 83%).
I promise… size isn’t the issue here. Something isn’t jiving here, and I’m not smart enough with Vegas to figure it out. I’m a creative driver not a mechanic unfortunately.
I am totally open to any suggestions now that you have all the details.
Thanks you guys!
Eddie McCracken
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Eddie,
How much time does it take to get to 84% or 98%? In Minutes:Seconds
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64
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Hey Jeff,
I usually always render while I sleep, so the best I can tell is about 6 hours. Keep in mind I have a 3+ year old computer or it would probably be faster.
Eddie McCracken
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Hey Jeff,
I usually always render while I sleep, so the best I can tell is about 6 hours. Keep in mind I have a 3+ year old computer or it would probably be faster.
Eddie McCracken
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I’ve been brainstorming:
My main feature started last year as a vegas movie studio 9 project. Then I bought vegas pro 11 and opened that project in pro 11 to finish it. Would that have annything to do with it? It behaved alright in vegas and rendered in vegas like a dream.
Eddie McCracken
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Eddie,
If it takes 6 hours in DVDA then you did not encode right in Vegas. Your build in DVDA should take about 2-3 minutes. Tops! Give us as much file details for your main feature as you can. (size, bitrate, etc.) What template do you use in Vegas? Are you encoding separate streams? (Mpeg and AC3?) Take some screen shots.
This is where you need to start looking.
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64
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