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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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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,
M

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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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Found it, blast. The disk that Prem’s installed to checked out error-free. I’m wondering if it might not be a good idea to take your advice and remove/re-install Prem6.5.

Thanx heaps, for your help

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Uh, you lost me there. What is “scan disk?” (Running win2kpro, and I don’t seem to have anything called scan disk).

Decided to go back to a straight WindowsDV export of the project, and it got to the 26th minute of a 27-minute movie and quit. The resultant 5-gig movie file was corrupt.

Tried your advice, about resetting preferences. Haven’t re-loaded the project yet.

Thanx, Blast, for your advice and help,
M

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Project/Settings Viewer/Export Settings/

Hoping it works for you, too,
M

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In reply to my own post, decided to dig deep into the project settings. TADA!

Somehow, though I’ve never even SEEN all these options and surely never unchecked any of them, the “export audio” box was unchecked.

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Hey David,

As my dvd-transcoding software will accept .mov input fields, there’s no reason not to give this a try. (Hey, a windoze-free solution!).

Thanx, for your helpful suggestion,
M

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You know what: I think you just nailed it!

(It’s not for nothing, they call you “Elvis”).

Thanx, sir,
M

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Hey Ronnie,

Yep, tried this, and I can indeed access the different video codecs then–but under New Project Settings/CAPTURE, there’s a message next to the Video for Windows input string that says: “Unable to access capture driver.”

When I choose Capture/Movie, my virtual screen is grey, and, though the virtual deck works and activates the input camera, nothing happens when I try to capture.