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Render BluRay from timeline hangs
I have the latest build of V8a on a WinXP PC with 3.4gHz Pentium D and 2GB of RAM. I successfully rendered and burned a BluRay disc of a short WMVHD video clip yesterday, so then I tried to do the same with a complete HDV project (except that I chose to render an .iso image without burning). When I left last night, the rendering was about 50% complete after about 5 hours of rendering. This morning, the rendering progress bar was replaced with one that reads “preparing compilation.” The “progress” has been stuck at 0% ever since I got here an hour ago. Should I give up and cancel the process? SOMETHING was created and rendered, because the hard drive now has 20 less GBs of space. I would just hate to lose it all if there’s a way to salvage it. The destination folder now has an .iso file that shows that it was “modified” a few hours ago (presumably when the render was done), yet the file size is 0kb. I searched the whole PC for any large file that was created in the last two days but found nothing, not even a temporary file. Is the “preparing compilation” hang a known issue?
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OK, this time, instead of burning a BluRay disc of an entire project from the timeline, I tried burning one from a single WMV-HD file of that same project – render only, MPG, 1440×1080 60i, 25mbps, AAC, keep chapter markers. A 4-min. highlight video from a WMV-HD file worked yesterday, so I tried the full 80-min. video today. It rendered in about 3 hours, then went through the “preparing compilation” step in about one hour, then returned to 0% on the “preparing compilation” progress bar, and now (just like last night’s project) it’s been stuck there for the last two hours. For good measure, I tried the same with a 1-min WMVHD clip with the exact same settings and a few chapter markers, and I watched as it prepared the .iso file perfectly to completion. So the only difference between these two tests is the length of the clip. Can anyone speak to this?
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Somehow I didn’t realize until just now that by owning V8 Pro, I got 60 days of phone tech support! How awesome is that??? And I got my answer, too. Whatever the estimated size of the rendered file will be, the temporary folder needs to have 4-5 times as much space as that. It’s a bug that they’re fixing. I had been trying to render a 17GB file to a drive with 45GBs of space – not enough. I went into Preferences and switched the temp folder from the default to a drive with over 100GBs of space. Presto!
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