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Emergency Rendering Help?!
Okay, so I’m in a desperate situation.
I’m supposed to be rendering my feature film for submission to a major film festival, the deadline for which has been extended for me by one day.
So, in typical procrastinating indie filmmaker fashion, I’m only NOW just rendering the movie for the first time.
Result: disaster.
It stopped rendering about 3 or 4 hours into the supposed 5 hour render (I am rendering HDV to DV mpeg).
I went and looked at what the file is, and it stopped at 53 minutes of 70. More disconcertingly, the footage that IS there in the file looks HORRID — like, sub-cell phone camera quality.
What am I doing wrong? I would be so grateful for any help you can give, I need to have this thing rendered and at the FedEx office at some point today (Saturday 29 September).
Please contact me, if you want I am more than happy to pay you for the time it takes to advise me. I am desperate for help now.
Gould
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7 Replies
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At 70 minutes, you should be able to use the default DVD Architect render template. Don’t modify it.
you can also download the free DVD Prep tool from the VASST website, it provides trouble-free renders of both audio and video for DVD.One consideration, is your hard drive formatted to FAT32? depending on bitrate, you may be running into a file constraint.
Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Doug,
I think I have solved the problem. What I originally did was to start a new DV NTSC project, and load all of my individual project files (9 in total) that make up the film into that. Then I tried to render it with the DVD Architect codec from this file.
Don’t ask me why I did this, it seemed logical at the time.
What I am instead doing now is rendering directly from the individual files themselves, as mpg’s and avc3’s, then I’m gonna stick it all together in DVD Architect.
I will surely look into the things you mention. Right now I think I have things under control…. I will post back here if I run into some problem with the DVD Architect itself.
My system is 4 gigs ram, dual core 2.39 ghz pentium, it seems to be rendering to this codec at about 2.5 minutes per actual minute of footage…. seems like a fair rate, no?
Gould
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Actually, I AM strugglign with DVD Architect…. I rendered each segment of the film as a separate .mpg …. will I be able to make it play as a single movie now?
This interface is a little confusing to me.
Gould
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you can, if you make the END ACTION for each section lead on to the next section.
you could also have rendered each section as an avi, then dropped all 9 avis into one timeline for a single render to mpeg2 for dvd
I assume you had 9 projects nested in one project originally? -
Note that by using the End Actions there will be a slight pause between each section. I, personally, prefer to render a SINGLE MPEG2 file for the total thing if I want it to play all the way through.
Edward Troxel
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End Action will probably work just for now.
Man, I just spent all night rendering and burning, and was about ready to send it off, when I realized that all of the footage was completely interlaced.
I *HATE* the way interlaced footage works.
So now I’m gonna re-render the entire thing.
Any recommendations? Should I render it to a .avi file with 2-3-3-2 pulldown, then let DVD Architect do the translation to an mpg?
Gould
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The same thing happened to me for festival submission. DVDA sucks. Read the post below about “Recommendations for REAL DVD program.”
If going to progressive, you MUST render with the pulldown template to get it to work. Don’t render it “24” because DVDA will say the file is 6.1gb when it is only 3.9. That is DVDAs way of saying “error.” I don’t think it has any other error message.
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