Pinnacle Studio - Will not render past halfway point

[pooty13901]

Hi everyone,

Long time Pinnacle Studio V9 user. Never, ever had a problem. Now, one project is driving me nuts. Studio freezes on render exactly halfway through the process. Keep in mind that another project rendered perfectly after I gave up on the trouble project.

In the past with one project, Studio would not render. I found some gaps in my movie line and that fixed it. This is not the case here. Where the rendering stops is not a fade, transition, point between two seperate clips or anything like that.

Can anyone give any insight into this? Unfortunately I don't have the funds to upgrade to a different software so I have to get this to work.

It just doesn't make any sense that one project will hang up while others pass the render stage with no problem. I have shortened the clip where it stops, removed the menu links and replaced them...nothing is helping.

Thanks much for any advice!

-Mike H.

[zoobie]

it's probably something on the timeline but also make sure your cache is large enough for temp files
try subtracting on the timeline until it renders

[edDV]

I saw this problem back in PStudio versions 6-8 where HDD temp space was inadequate. Back then PStudio was lax in flushing intermediate temp files and needed 18+ GB tmp space to process one 4.4GB DVD. I was told this was used to provide an undo path but in my experience when Pinnacle Studio "stops" or "crashes" the computer, there is no recovery.

Your profile shows 256MB RAM and only 30GB disk space. Probably not enough.

[pooty13901]

Hi guys and thanks for the replies.

I thought about the lack of space thing as well so I tried to render a project ten minutes longer than the one I'm having trouble with. That one worked fine.

The trouble project has a lot more titles, audio drop ins and such. Would that create larger files in regards to what you're talking about?

Thanks.

[edDV]

Hi guys and thanks for the replies.

I thought about the lack of space thing as well so I tried to render a project ten minutes longer than the one I'm having trouble with. That one worked fine.

The trouble project has a lot more titles, audio drop ins and such. Would that create larger files in regards to what you're talking about?

Thanks.

Maybe. Pinnacle Studio needs to
1. Import video MPeg + audio + other files and convert each to RGB + PCM tmp files
2. Compute filters, transitions and composites to additional tmp files
3. Encode the timeline to DVD MPeg2 (most other programs flush earlier tmp files at this point)
4. DVD authoring converts MPeg2 to VOBs, BUPs, IFOs.
5. VOBs, BUPs, IFOs are then converted to a 4.35GB iso file for writing to DVD.
6. Iso is written to DVD.

If you separate the project into steps 1-3 to MPeg2 and then separately author+burn (steps 4-6) you may be able to complete the project with less total disk space. You will also have the MPeg2 as an intermediate backup.