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save as movie nightmare in 6.5
I know, I know: upgrade to Prem Pro–but hey, I’m so happy with win2kpro, I’ve never been tempted to install XP, which symantic says stands for “extra problems.”
OK, here t’is: with a deadling looming, I have a 90-minute video that I’m ready to save out as a movie and transcode to DVD–but, if I try to do any save other than microsoftAVI, I get an interrupt, an error text log and the program shuts down.
If I had a 400 gig hard drive to spare, I’d LOVED to save out the movie as an uncompressed microsoftAVI–but I need to go for the compression of MicrosoftDV, so the project will fit on the 35 gigs of hard drive space I have left.
Thinking that somehow maybe the DV codec got damaged, I even tried un/re-installing Prem 6.5, but it still quits and spits out an error log. (Yeah, right, like I can make sense of that).
Any clues, o ye mighty ones? I’m a little more than desperate here.
Thanx heaps, for your attention,
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13 Replies
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35gigs !!!
I dont think you have enough disk space headroom to render and output this project.
Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)
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Well, you are dealing with old technology here, even if it’s only a few years old.
It ‘s been a while since i’ve worked with premiere 6.5, but you should be able to reset the preferences, that’s what I would look into first. Second, the idea of going to DV, and then to Mpge2 should be avoided. Isn’t there an mpgeg2 export in 6.5 (I mean, once it’s fixed)
Your last resort maybe a clean win2k install.
Vince
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Uh–and as I said quite clearly in my original post–if I were trying to save out the movie as an uncompressed AVI, yes, obviously 35 gigs wouldn’t hack it. (Calculated that I’d need around 150 gigs).
But hey, MicrosoftDV, which–as I said–was my export choice, would require less than 20 gigs.
And prem’s pretty good about popping a warning message when disk space gets low, and in this instance it never even gets close to using all the disk space before it pops the “program has created errors and is closing down” message.
So, thanx anyway for that response.
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Old, maybe–but working flawlessly all these years, up till this project. (Never been one to buy the latest just ’cause it’s the latest).
But hey, that was a sweet reminder, about using Prem’s onboard mpeg2 encoder. Can’t recall exactly why I went for the movie export option; know I’ve tried that mpeg2 option and encountered problems. Seems like one of my DVD authoring packages refused to recognize the output from Prem’s mpeg2 encoder.
Anyway, thanx, Vincent. Your suggestion was at least a glimmer of light in the darkness.
Best,
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Zowie,
I understand the not wanting to go with the latest, but PP 6.5 was a little like Windows Me if you know what I mean. There’s a reason they restarted at 1.0 🙂
A few more stabs, when you reinstalled did you delete all the folders in program files ?
You might also be able to find some other codecs online and install them to see if “they work”.
I still think that it probably is an OS issue… A least you know a new clean install “will work” however painful it is.
Vince
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I read what you wrote “clearly”
My point was about the headroom on your HD (you said you only had 35 gigs left). I interpreted that to mean you were trying to use that last bit of that “space” on the HD.
My understanding is that it takes extra space while rendering/ outputing (eg pagefiles etc) and also the HD should not be more than two thirds full while doing so.
Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)
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No wish to get into a shooting match with you, Craig. But Prem is pretty straight up about warning when disk space is getting too close. In fact, I tried saving it as a straight uncompressed AVI, and it wrote just fine, right down to less than 500k on the disk–then prompted me a warning. It did not shut down the program and write an error log and dump file.
This is something new, with Dr Watson’s and such. With five different hard drives on the system, and the source and destination disks being completely separate devices, I’ve NEVER gotten this kind of message before.
Thanx, Craig, for your interest
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[Vincent Becquiot] “I understand the not wanting to go with the latest, but PP 6.5 was a little like Windows Me if you know what I mean. There’s a reason they restarted at 1.0 🙂
A few more stabs, when you reinstalled did you delete all the folders in program files?
Excellent suggestion. Though I did do an uninstall, I did not go through and delete everything pertaining to 6.5.
You might also be able to find some other codecs online and install them to see if “they work”.
Yeah, I’ve got DivX; should give that a shot.
I still think that it probably is an OS issue… A least you know a new clean install “will work” however painful it is.”
Late last nite, while looking for Premiere tailings to delete, I came across my old install of Prem 6. Decided to try loading the project into it. Surprise! It loaded and then saved out my movie as a Microsoft AVI DV without a glitch.
When all else fails, go retro . . .
Thanx a meg, Vince, for your thoughtful response to my query.
M
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Guess I must be wrong then. Hope you find the solution soon and dont end up buying a new drive.
Craig Howard
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)
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Wrong? No way, daddy.
(If I bring this one in under deadline, that’s exactly what I’ll be buying: a 3- or 4-hundred gig HD, USB, so I won’t have this kind of headache again).
Course, the next guy will want me to produce a four-hour video, and I’ll wish I’d held out for a 1- or 2-terrabyte drive.
Grateful for your attention, Craig,
M
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