Spruceup error at 99%

[rluner]

Hi, I am having a little problem exporting from spuceup, sometimes I get an “Error while reading a video input file.” Error. Always at 99%.

I have three master .avi files that came straight of my DV cam on to my hard drive.

I used premier to edit them to how I wanted. Then exported timeline to AVIsynth. Run TMPGenc and encode them. They play perfect in avi and mpg.

Now I load spuceup, import the files add a menus and buttons, and write to a title set. (Ready to burn with Nero)

It sometimes fails with the error: “Error while reading a video input file.”, but always at 99%.

What I have figured out is, if I only choose the first part of the three movies, it all works fine. And spruce exports a title set OK.

It seems that for some reason when I select a certain part of the latter one of the three original avi files, it will not work. But the mpg version plays perfect, its only spuceup that cannot write the title set.

Has anyone seen or heard of anything similar?

I did think it could be some file size limit, but I have managed a successful title set of 1.29GB for a section of the start of the movie. (30minutes of about 45minutes in total). This was at a CBR of 8000K, and as I mainly use 3000K (to try out spruceup) at this lower rate the entire 45 minutes would be less that 1.29GB.

Please help me, as I must have messed about for a week, trying to get spruce to title set various pieces of these files.

[dwisniski]

Hello there, I had the same problem converting old home videos to
DVD. Go to the MPEG tools section of TMPGE, go to Merge & Cut, and load your .mpg files up. Hit the "Correct" button on the bottom corner, and you should have no problems exporting with SpruceUp anymore! It works for me, no problems since I stumbled across that feature. Happy hunting.

John 3:16

[rluner]

Well for a moment there, I got my hopes up.

And I`m sorry to have to say, that it does not work for me.

Thanks for trying.

I just can`t figure out what is going on.

Anyone else got any ideas ?

[mbellot]

You say they are from a DV cam?

What is your audio sample frequency? I ran into the same problem with Spruce when I forgot to "upconvert" the audio from 12 bit 32KHz (DVcam native) to 16 bit 48KHz (DVD standard). It would read through the entire MPG file and then puke at 99%.

I finally figured it out by de-muxing the audio and video streams and trying to import them separately. Spruce read the video file just fine and then puked *immediately* on the audio file.

Give that a shot if you are unsure about the audio track...

[Bel]

The easiest way to check out what's choking it, is to look at the title set it's created. Load up the last video it created (the one with the highest number) and the last scene is where it choked. Most likely it's the last frame of the video you are already discovered was giving it a problem. I've never tried the correct button, but in Mpeg tools/Merge & Cut, cut off the last few frames of the mpeg, and save it to a new mpeg. This has solved the problem most of the time I've run across this, one time I had to reconvert the mpeg entirely.

[mazinz]

TRY this, this problem is very similar to what happens when trying to use clips made with the dazzle in spruceup (hangs at 99%). on this site go to tools and ownload the "dazzle stream id fix 3". this will not re-encdoe anything but fixes some things in the header and now the clips work with spruceup without a problem