export woes

[Jeremy Garchow]

Delete your render files, rerender and then reexport.

Jeremy

[Bret Williams]

[Craig Lindvahl] “When I burn the dvd, I’ll get a a 2-3 second freeze, then the program continues. I also occasionally get an audio spike in a random place.”

And the data rate you’re using in DVDSP is? If you’re seeing these issues on a burned DVD then something is going awry in the DVD process, not the FCP export process. Too high a data rate might be creating the freezes if the DVD player can’t keep up. Audio spike could be related in some way.

I generally use 4-7mb/sec vbr if I remember correctly.

[Trevor Ward]

yeah, it sort of sounds like dvdsp is doing something when it burns the dvd if you say it plays correctly in the simulator of dvdsp.

Generally, this is my workflow. In FCP, I export a FCP self-contained movie file. (This I use to archive my final project without the extra compression.) then I use compessor to create the assets for dvdsp (I use an appropriate mpeg2 preset). Then in dvdsp I import the audio and video file assets.

After export from fcp, I check to make sure the file plays the way it should. After it’s compressed and in dvdsp, I use the simulator to make sure it plays correctly.

-trevor ward
orlando, fl

[Craig Lindvahl]

Thanks you guys-I’m sure one of these things will work. I had read about deleting audio render files, so maybe deleting all of them will do it.

I’m far from a tech guy, but I’ve used compressor a lot, and I’ve never had the issue with stuff turning darker during the process. Strange.

Thanks again.

[Nick Ryan]

If you figure out what’s causing it to go darker, let us know. We’ve had consistent trouble with Compressor or DVDSP crushing the blacks – we’re having to make all our DVDs with the PC.

Nick

[Craig Lindvahl]

You know, it’s the first time I’ve experienced that. Weird.

In the end, I think I have a hard drive that’s dying. I trashed the render files, and then the project wouldn’t let me render anything without freezing. After a couple of tries, I couldn’t even open the project. I’m pretty faithful about backing up the project file, and when I tried that, the computer didn’t recognize what kind of file it was.

I opened an older copy, and that worked fine, except I couldn’t render. I use a G-Raid, and the light just blinks slowly on and off, and it sounds like the drive is spinning up and spinning down.
I have a new drive on the way and I’ll just hope and pray that it’s not some corrupt file that is making everything act this way.

It’s a huge corporate project, which was due yesterday. Aargh. Such is life.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Jeremy Garchow]

It is probably your GRaid. There was a bad run of GRaids with faulty power switches (and the symptoms include what you just described). Call them and they will replace it for free, if you live in the area they will fix it while you wait. If you don’t live in the area you have to send in your drive. Head on over to the GRaid forum and you can read about how to go about returning it there.

Jeremy

[Craig Lindvahl]

Thanks, Jeremy-you’re right on. The forum is full of this exact problem. I’ve emailed them for help, and we’ll just keep our fingers crossed that they’ve corrected the problem in their drives.