Saving to file

[Chris R]

I am trying to save a 44 minute project to a file so I can burn it to a disk. Attempt 1 (iMac i5) using default settings for Quicktime gave me a 10 GB file. See the attachment. I have been through the book and can not find any recommended changes.

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Thank you
Chris Reich

[Steve Grisetti]

When you say you've been through the book, do you mean the Muvipix.com Guide, Chris?

When you say burn to disc, you mean create a DVD or BluRay, right?

If so, use the Share option To Disc rather than To Computer. This will create VOB files, the video format designed for disc players. (It's about 1/5 the size of a DV-MOV.)

[Chris R]

Sir--

Yes, I was talking about the Muvipix book. I thought by sharing it to the computer I was creating a file that I could then drop to a disk. Obviously I was wrong. Then I tried burning it to a disk and that failed, as you said it would. Way to go Adobe! But now I see what I think you were talking about. Rather than sharing it to the computer, I can burn the file to the computer and then move that file to a disk. I am trying that now and we shall see how that works.

Thank you
Chris Reich

[Steve Grisetti]

If you do have problems creating a DVD, Chris, the Appendix to the book has steps for troubleshooting your DVD burn.

If you will post in as much detail as possible what the results were for each of those steps, we can help you figure out what's going on and what you can do about it.

But details certainly are important. Even master detectives need clues, after all.

[Dave McElderry]

But details certainly are important. Even master detectives need clues, after all.

That's great Steve, and oh so true! Do you mind if I use that the next time one of my clients calls and says "I got a window popped up with an error message of some kind. No, I don't remember what I was doing at the time. No, I didn't write it down."

[Chris R]

Sir--

Well saving it to a file has failed twice. After the first failure I went back and rendered this project again (which took forever) and tried again. It runs through the first 3 phases of encoding fairly quickly and then goes into a long, long, long process of encoding and failed around the 75% point. The only error message I got was something about Adobe closing unexpectedly and would I like to reopen it.

During the initial encoding phase I did notice that many of the interior movie clips turn black and have some thin red lines going through them-similiar to what I see when I render this thing. I don't know if that is normal or not since this is my first time going through this process.

I have well over 500 GB of free space and this iMac i5 is only a few months old. I wish I could give you more details but that is all I can see.

Thank you
Chris Reich

[Chuck Engels]

The most common reason for encoding failure like you are experiencing is caused by gaps in the timeline.
Zoom in to your timeline and make sure there are no gaps between clips.

[Steve Grisetti]

And certainly more details would be helpful, Chris. We don't even know what kind of camcorder your video came from!

As I've said, it's impossible to do any detective work without clues.

Have you worked through the troubleshooting steps?

[Chris R]

Gentlemen--

Sorry for the delay in replying. After much microscopic work I found a small gap between 2 pictures. With that deleted it saved to a file and I have been able to make the DVDs.

On to disk two and I hope I learn from my own mistakes and it gets easier.

Thank you

Chris Reich

[Chuck Engels]

Glad you got that figured out Chris, it does get easier I promise