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Unable to solve exporting issue – “Error Compiling Movie”
I have reached the end of my rope and now I’ve resorted to asking someone here how to help me. I have tried so many different things.
I have created 13 22minute length cartoon episodes, of which I have edited and animated in Pro 1.5. Each episode is divided into 3 7minute segments. The show is complete after a year of production, and countless hours of full time work.
The cartoon has been made in 1920×1080 dimensions for High Definition exporting, but when I try to export these seven minute brackets, I get the infamous “error compiling movie – error unknown” message.
The videos need to be exported as a high quality or HD quicktime. I have tried H.264, DV100 (DVCPROHD) and other various quicktime codecs.. but they all return the same error. There are no decent, working AVI codecs either. It’s either a low quality highly compressed format, or the uncompressed video that is ridiculously huge. The final thing needs to be in quicktime anyway, as this is what the producers have specified.
The frustrating thing is that sometimes I can export very very small amounts of it successfully, so I don’t understand why it doesn’t work if the sequence is longer.
I tried upgrading to Pro 2.0 and I also bought more RAM, but I still get the error. Sometimes it renders right up to the end, and then displays the error.My specs are:
Pentium 4 3.2ghz
3gb DDR RAM
Lots of hard drive spaceI have literally been spending weeks trying to solve this problem, and it’s getting me pretty down. If anyone can help me solve this issue, I will be a happy man.
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22 Replies
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Nothing else comes to mind when reading this, so I thought I’d suggest that if you know someone who has Canopus Procoder that you might give them a clip to try encoding and see if that works. If it does, it may be something worth adding to your kit.
I wish I had a better suggestion but that’s all that comes to mind just crawling out of bed, before the wondrous caffeine has had its chance to work.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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IMHO, there is no way to get a great Quicktime out of Premiere Pro without purchasing the Sorenson 3 Pro codec. It is twice as good at half the file size.
However, perhaps the problem is that you are using a preset as is? If so, then you really need to go in and tweak it. Just keep in mind that you are probably going to need somewhere around 5GB per segment. (Depends on the footage of course.) If you consider that too large, you might want to rethink that. HD is, by definition, a huge monster.
If it was up to me, I suppose I would be using Quicktime Animation, and damn the file size.
Steven
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Sorenson for PCs, eh, Steven? I was thinking of Sorenson but wasn’t aware that it ran on PCs, so I didn’t want to suggest a tool that wasn’t on the platform in question. Thanks for the lesson, Mighty One. ;o)
Out of curiosity, do you know how Sorenson for Windows and Canopus Procoder compare? I ask so that I can understand where they each sit in the Windows food chain.
Best always,
Ron Lindeboom
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Thanks for the suggestions.
The size of the files isn’t really a concern (churning out uncompressed AVIs however, is not practical and my computer would probably cark it).
I have tried the “Quicktime animation” codec, but I get the same error. I’m thinking that maybe the complexity and multiple layers and sequences in the project are just too much for Premiere to handle.
Your suggestion for using another codec (and one that I have to pay for) probably won’t be worth it, because I assume the same error will arise. I think even some AVI compressions have returned the error.The show has been made with each scene (being anywhere from 40seconds to several minutes) made as a separate project/sequence. Then when all of them were completed, they were imported into one main sequence. Some of the scenes are very complex and have lots of layers of video (which is made up of hundreds of still images).
I’m thinking maybe the size of the prproj file itself might be having an effect.
More suggestions would be much appreciated.
T
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Ron,
To be honest, I have never compared the two. I have just seen the Sorenson results. Outstanding! But, Mac users have known that for years, right? You can buy the Pro cedec alone, or Squeeze. Great stuff.
Steven
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Try exporting just the workarea, and try a short section. If that works, then perhaps it is a memory or disk space issue. Let us know. If even a short one fails, then there must be something else wrong.
Steven
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Oh! The dreaded unknown error. I spent an entire weekend solving the error for a client of mine (which ended up taking over 20 hours to solve). Try this:
1. Close Premiere Pro.
2. Download and install this codec.
3. Open your Premiere Pro project.
4. File > Export > Export to Movie
5. Select ‘Settings’.
6. Follow this short demo that I created: https://asvideoproductions.com/stuff/Huff_Demo/Huff_Demo.html
7. Once you are done exporting, post back and we will export the QT MOV.Aanarav Sareen
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[Ron Lindeboom] “do you know how Sorenson for Windows and Canopus Procoder compar”
Ron,
I have used both and both of them are quite equivalent to each other. However, Procoder is definitely superior to Squeeze when it comes down to MPEG encoding. Sounds like a good topic for a review, eh?PS: Procoder has a dongle, something which I HATE (I only have 6 USB ports and I need them for my external drives and hence no Procoder on my main system)
Aanarav Sareen
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I get the dreaded error message on long form stuff. The ONLY way I fixed it was to set up another basic Decklink system and run SDI from the edit master PC to the other PC. I then could encode the new 10-bit digital dub to any format I liked without problems. The error message usually appears if you have a certain combination or type of effects on the timeline. Or it could be memory related. I don’t know for sure.
If you have a good “lossless” tape format like Digi Beta or PRO50, lay off and to tape then redigitise.
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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I’m confused.. you didn’t specify which codec. Also, I don’t quite understand step 7.. won’t that mean the quality will degrade from converting it so many times?
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