[Martin Albrecht]

One more note – after reading up on the same problem elsewhere on this forum, i’d like to point out that the EXPORT TO DVD function WORKED and the movie is successfully burnt to a DVD. only after seeing the poor quality i tried different format of exporting and that’s when the error started coming up. I have not changed a single thing since successfully exporting to DVD.

Thank you very much again.
m.

[Martin Albrecht]

Hey there Vince,

I have followed your advice and sure enough, PP stared encoding, went on for several hours and when it got to the end, it came up with:
“error compiling movie. Unknown error”. It is the same message that comes up when i try to use the adobe encoder. I cant think why it does it with this proect and not with others. I only use a few titles, some mp3 music and footage from a dv camera captured through PP. There are 2 pieces of footage that are different – ultrasound of a baby, that i only imported and dont know how it was recorded. Could this be the reason?

Also, i realised that i kind of hijacked my own topic. should this be a new thread?

Thank you very kindly for your advice,
m.

[Martin Albrecht]

Thanks Vince,

I tried to play around with exporting the project as mpg file regardless of the size – and the encoder in PP calculted approx 1.02 MB per second in the best quality, which would make the file around 7.5GB large, which i could live with and maybe then shrink it in Encore somehow or in som other way.

Regardless, I came across seeminlgy an unsurmountable problem – whenever i let it encode, it comes up with an “Unknown Error” straight away. Doesnt even start transcoding. When i try the same settings on a smaller shorter project, no problem. When i try it on the current big project, chop most of it off and leave just 4 minutes, it still wont do anything and come up with an error straight away. Any ideas what may be wrong? Has anyone had and “unknown error”?

Thank you kindly