Render Problems with pinnacle

[The Linguist]

I'm having problems rendering a DVD with pinnacle studio 9.4. Whenever I render the video (35 minutes) on the second pass it gets stuck at 17:42:10 and freezes.

I've searched the pinnacle forum and tried a number of the solutions there, but nothing has worked. I also tried to post (twice) but my post didn't appear.

Anyhow, if someone could help me out I would appreciate it.

[jimbucc]

Look at the log file to see where the errors are occurring - may not show any if the app freezes.
you may have to recreate the project. Hard to say with Studio-it's very buggy.
Also, ensure that nothing else is running while using Studio.
Jim

[Redd]

What have they suggested and what have you tried?

Okay, I just read your thread over a Pinnacle. The second pass is for audio. For now lets not even try and figure out your audio and try this.
Remove the menu...that will automatically remove all the chapter points. Leave everything else, audio, titles, transitions, still...everything you’re using on this project.
Go to Make Movie and render to an AVI file using the DV Encoder...save to the folder of your choice. That should work for you. Import the new AVI back into Studio and drag it back to the timeline.
Using the scrubber to browse the new avi file, use the razor tool make a slice at each point where you want to place a chapter point. Create your menu(s). When the menu editor asks if Studio should create chapter points...you can say yes and Studio will set a chapter point at each razor cut you made, or say no and do it manually yourself. Don't forget to set a return to menu...either primary or sub menu...it's your choice.
Then go back to Make Movie\Disc\ and I'd recommenmd using CBR, not VBR.

Post back if this works or doesn’t .

[edDV]

Pinnacle Studio wants lots of blank HDD space (>18GB)

[Redd]

Any AVI wants lots of hard drive space.

[The Linguist]

I finally got it working. What I did was remove the menus render it as DV-avi add a menu and then render it as a DVD.

I have plenty of HDD space so that wasn't it - over 100gb free. I'm not sure about clip sizes I had a number of small clips so maybe that got taken care of when I made it DV-avi and then merged clips before making the DVD.

Thanks for you help.

[edDV]

Pinnacle Studio has very creative roadblocks not offered in other products.

[The Linguist]

Wow, loads of negative comments...

I think I may be switching to something else. I do like the ease of editing and adding effects but the rendering headache is not worth it.

[Redd]

Pinnacle Studio has very creative roadblocks not offered in other products.

Tell ya what Ed...seeing how we're both is No.Ca...lets get together and I'll show you how Studio works first time, every time.
Interested? I'm in Sonoma County.

reddbojoatgmaildotcom

[edDV]

Pinnacle Studio has very creative roadblocks not offered in other products.

Tell ya what Ed...seeing how we're both is No.Ca...lets get together and I'll show you how Studio works first time, every time.
Interested? I'm in Sonoma County.

reddbojoatgmaildotcom

My comments are limited to v8.12. I recently got the v9 upgrade (including DivX and AC-3 codecs) in a Fry's upgrade special. I intend to give it a workout.

[Redd]

Pinnacle Studio has very creative roadblocks not offered in other products.

Tell ya what Ed...seeing how we're both is No.Ca...lets get together and I'll show you how Studio works first time, every time.
Interested? I'm in Sonoma County.

reddbojoatgmaildotcom

My comments are limited to v8.12. I recently got the v9 upgrade (including DivX and AC-3 codecs) in a Fry's upgrade special. I intend to give it a workout.

I hope it works out for you. I just got Vegas 6...so I now who to yell at if needed.

[edDV]

Pinnacle 9 is just an experiment.

Vegas 6 + DVD is my DV and TS choice
I still use Premiere 5.1 (MJPEG), 6.5 and Premiere Pro
ULead Video Studio is used for TV capture and simple MPeg2 editing.

Until now, I've never found a use for Pinnacle Studio.

[Redd]

I totally understand. I've been using Vegas since ver.4, but there's something’s like to do in Studio. And you did get Studio 9 Plus? If there’s something I want to do within Vegas, I'll render my project to an AVI and open in Vegas and vise versa. Love the keyframing in Vegas. Still, you'll be surprised how much one can do in Studio.

[edDV]

Since I have Vegas and Premiere for the fancy work, I try to find utility uses for the lower tier products or some unique effect.

Since ULead Video Studio shares the same basic Mainconcept encoder that is in Vegas and Premiere, I find they all complement well (e.g. realtime MPeg2 encode in Ulead and then author DVD in Architect).

I've been using Pinnacle products since the DC30+ that came with Premiere 4.2. I've been using Premiere since v1 on the Mac. I've also got Pinnacle Commotion around here someplace.