Rendering problem in ULead Video Studio 7

[sam724]

First, let me say thanks to the folks who have been helping me on rec.video.desktop...

My problem is this:

I have 20 avi files that I am trying to assemble into a single avi (total time after editing is approx 3h). These avi's were captured on my ADVC-100, and appear fine. After I completed the editing, transitrions, etc, I
went to "create video file." It starts redndering, and at approx 97% complete, it stops and gives me a message that says "Insufficient space on this drive, save to another drive or reduce file size. 17117:21:2" I operate my OS (XP home) on an 80 Gb hard drive (c: - NTFS), but I've been working on a separate hard drive that's 160Gb (f: - NTFS). the only things on this 160Gb drive are the smaller avis which total about 45 Gb. The c: has about 50GB of free space.

I've done this many times before (once with 8 avis totalling 4 hours of video) and didn't have a problem. Jerry Jones suggested that I may have the working folder set incorrectly, and it looks as though he was right - it was to a folder on the c: (although ooriginally I had set it to f. I tried changing this to f:, but it wouldn't take - said the folder didn;t exist or the program didn't have access to it. I then tried a sub folder on f:, and it appeared to take. I thebn tried rendering again, but the problems persists. I've tried rendering 10x or so, each time taking some off the video (first removed jpgs from the c: that were in th etimeline, then started cutting segments of the avis that are stored on f:. Still, when I reach what calculate to be close to 50Gb, the prgram gives me the error message. Any ideas?

Could my.vsp be causing problems since the program was in an odd configuration when I first saved it? Or is there some other way that I would be accessing the c: (I DO save it to my f:...)

If I can't solve this soon, I'll uninstall everything, and re-install... But I'd sure like to know what's going on in case this happens again. Its just odd, since I have done this many times before - often requiring more drive space, and I've never had a problem until now...

Thanks in advance for any possible help.
-Steve

[Specialist]

I would be extremely curious to know the precise video/audio properties of your source files.

For example, when I work with DV .avi files, I observe the following precise video/audio properties:

NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
Microsoft AVI files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 29.97 fps
Field Order A
DV Video Encoder -- type 1
DV Audio -- NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo

How do the properties of your source files compare?

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net