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Premiere Elements 2.0 hangs when burning DVDs
I have been trying unsuccessful to burn some DVDs using Premiere Elements 2.0 from my computer (a dell precision M50 notebook running XP @ 2.19 GHz with 1GB of RAM).
For example, I have a one hours worth of video footage as an mpeg file which I load into premiere and then try to burn to a LG GSA-516D DVD burner on my firewire port. Premiere starts rendering happily but after about 20% of the total job is completed it seems that no more progress is ever made and I eventually kill everything. At no point does premiere seem to write to the DVD player (there is a light on the front of the burner which flashes when the drive is doing something). When premiere “hangs” I can still cancel the burn,soit has not crashed,it just doesn’t seem to be doing anything anymore. Also, the CPU usage is normally level at about 10-20% at this point and my computer is not using swap space at all, so I am quite confused as to why premiere has stopped working.
Exactly the samething happens when I try to burn the DVD image to a file on my computer, or if I try to export to DVD. From my wife’s computer (which has an internal DVD player) everything works.
Using exactly the same setup as above I have successful burned one of the premiere tutorials, so I think that all of my hardware iscompatible with premiere. However, this tutorial contains only 1 minute of footage, so perhaps the problem is be related to the size of my video?
Another possibility is that some of my files are on a network drive (via a 100MB/S connection). However,I do not think that this can be the problem because I have also tried moving everything to the hard drive on my computer and premiere still hangs.
I’ve searched on the web for possible fixes and tried several things, but nothing has worked.
Any ideas as to what I should try next would be welcome!
Andrew
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First, NEVER use assets for a video program from a network drive. Offline storage is fine there, but for actively using the clips always put them on a local drive. Yes, a network drive CAN work, as long as your network traffic isn’t cluttered, but it seriously is just asking for trouble.
As for the problem, can you export from Premiere Elements to a DV-AVI file? You may be able to get around the problem by making an AVI file, then putting it back into your project and disabling (Right-click > uncheck Enable) the original clips. Or, if worst comes to worst, put the clip in a new project and recreate the DVD menus.
If the AVI export doesn’t work, there’s likely something wrong in the timeline. If it always stops at a certain point, there’s probably a bad clip or effect there. Delete it and see if you can get past it. Add it back, and if it still fails you may need to recapture or recreate it. If this doesn’t work, it could be something bad in the project. Use the work area bar to export segments around the bad part, then recreate the timeline it in a new project.
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