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DVD Architect Render Errors
Hi, I’ve been hunting down answers and I’m hoping someone will be able to help. I’ve created a rather large project in DVD Arch Studio 4.5. It sits at around 9.7 GB which I optimise to 3.8 GB. There’s quite a number of menus and videos and buttons (text/arrow only). These videos have been made in Vegas and rendered as WMV. Right now, I really don’t care about recompression and quality as a number of the videos were bad quality to begin with.
Anyway, whenever I try to prepare the project, it takes about 40 minutes. It gets to around 24% (48% in the Render stage) before an error comes up. I can’t remember which came first, but I have had the “unknown error has occurred”, “system is low on memory” & twice the render has frozen but the approx time left keeps counting down til I force the program to close.
In between renders I have tried different methods including optimising project from 4.2 to 3.8 GB, using CFF Explorer to apply “app can handle >2GB” (though I am using Windows XP and I read that 2GB will be the max it can use anyway), and using Advanced System Performance Settings increase Total Paging File Size to 4092 MB. I shut all programs and I watch the “Commit Charge” and it never nears the max allocated space. And yet every time, the project fails. It plays fine in preview mode.
I’m at my wits end. I understand I am better rendering my files as MPEG2 and AC3 in Vegas, to avoid the render stage all together. I re-rendered approximately half of my files last night to do this (however the remaining half are only extremely short videos taking up a total of no more than 40 MB, so I haven’t done it with these files). Not wanting to remake the whole project, I saved a copy of it and replaced all the WMV videos with the MPEG2 and AC3 files. However, about every 5 videos, I would get errors preventing me from inserting the AC3 files or preventing me from saving. Needless to say, I replaced the videos, went to prepare the project again, and it wants to recompress these files still. I’m assuming this is because of the need to Optimise the DVD to the smaller size. I continue with the process, and alas, error messages occur at about 5% which force the program to close on its own. This makes me prefer the project with all the WMV files (even though I know DVD Arch must still recompress them into the proper format). But I’m guessing there may lie a problem in the recompression seeing as it never gets past the Render stage? But it still recompresses when I do change them myself?
I am using Windows XP, DVD Architect Studio 4.5 and Vegas Studio Platinum 9.0. I have 171 GB free space on my C drive. Would I need to clean up my Temp files? What’s the best way of doing that?
Thank you to anyone that offers there help! 🙂
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I’ve noticed it tends to stop rendering at the start of my playlist. I have a playlist that contains all of the extremely short videos. It’s a kind of interactive DVD, so these videos are random “scores”. The playlist is randomised, and is made so that one random “score” video is played after each of my bigger videos before returning to the menu. The render process seems to fail upon reaching the playlist, and sometimes the progress bar will stop moving while the time still counts down. I deleted 1 item from the playlist and prepared again, which caused the low memory error to come up straight away.
I’ve also tried deleting the entire playlist (and all the media files that were on the playlist), and it still fails to prepare the project. Any ideas??
I’m aware that DVDA grossly overestimates the project size and so I rechecked over my original files which sure enough, come to approx 2.8 GB. I tried preparing the project again, this time ignoring the warning about file size, and went ahead without optimising/fitting to disc. Still got the low memory error. So frustrating!
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Bump… update:
The only file I changed in CFF explorer was the DVD Arch exe file as all the files listed in the CFF explorer fix seem to be related to Vegas and Vegas works perfectly fine for me.
I have proceeded to render all my files to MPEG2 and AC3 including the short movie files, however I’m at a point in this project file where I cannot replace any more of the WMV files to MPEG without having the program crash. I still have the WMV project file saved separately and it works fine, except for the fact, you know, that it still won’t render. I really don’t know what more to say.
Will system stats help?
Intel(R) Core (TM) 2 Duo CPU
E7400 @ 2.80 GHz
2.80 GHz, 3.50 GB of RAM
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