Burning to DVD PE shuts down

[Palma2012]

Hi

I hope someone can help me out. I've just completed a video/slideshow with audio.
Two nights again I managed to burn it unto a DVD and it worked fine.
I had a couple of items I wanted to correct and added a template. Now it does
not want to burn to a DVD nor a folder. It closes down at 15%.
I hope someone can help me out.
I've read up on a forum that had the same problem as I did, but I cannot understand
the solution.
The updates are current.

I'm running a Intel Core 2 duo,
4GB of ram.

Help

Palma

[Chuck Engels]

My first question would be, what changes did you make? Can you undo them?
Next, this problem can be caused by a blank section of video, even just one frame.
Check the first 30% of your movie for a section that does not have any video.

If all else fails you can try exporting the whole thing as an AVI file and then import that into a new project, should work that way.
File/Export/Movie, save the file, Open a new project and import your AVI file, then do you DVD menu and burn.

[Palma2012]

Thank you so much for answering me

There were quite a few changes. Some readjustement on pictures that were outside the
safe zone. I added a rolling title credit. Changed a few transitions.
And no, its too late the undo those changes.

I ended up finding a blank space on one frame. Fixed that by extending the next
frame over by one. That closed the gap.
And still that did not correct the problem. Every single time it got to 15% if just
shut down. Very upsetting.

I'm now working on your second option. A new project created from the AVI file.

I created the new DVD menu, then tried to burn to a DVD.
The encoding seemed to have gone well, but when it went to
burn, it just seemed to have locked up on me.

I am getting so fed up with this!!!

Please let me know if you have any clue why this is happening.

Palma

[Chuck Engels]

Have you burned a DVD with Premiere Elements before on that computer or is this the first time?

[Palma2012]

No, I burned the same project two nights ago on the same
computeur.

[Chuck Engels]

This is really strange that you can export an AVI file but can't burn the DVD anymore.
Maybe someone can come up with a suggestion, I'm not sure what's going on.
I will continue to think about it but hopefully someone else will come up with something soon.

[Palma2012]

So, I've tried 4 times now, and it FINALLY worked.
On the 3rd time I noticed that it jumbed from 78% encoded right to
burn disc 1 of 1.
Its at that point it just seemed to freeze.

Then it occured to me, and I don't know if its luck or not, but....

I restarted everything. When I went to my new file, it didn't have my project
in it. So, I guess what I did was imported the AVI file into it, went right away to menus
then into share. I didn't save it. So, I imported it again, saved it again, went to menus
and saved again, then went into share.
And if finally burned.

Do you think that might have been what was giving me the problems?

Of course, it still does not explain why the original project burned to a DVD Friday night,
and tonight it just would not even complete the encoding.

If anyone has a clue what might have gone wrong, please let me know.
I don't want to keep making the same mistakes over again.


thanks again for your help

Palma

[Chuck Engels]

It might be possible that your old project will burn again now, maybe.
Sometimes after working on a project for a long time it is a good idea to restart the computer and that will clear out the memory and temp files.
It helps make the program run better if there isn't so much junk built up.

finding the blank spot in your project could have been the only real problem and restarting the computer fixed the rest.
Not sure, but I am glad that you did get the DVD burned

[Palma2012]

I'm so glad too.
Thanks for being there to help. At least I didn't feel like
I was on my own trying to figure it out.


Palma

[Chuck Engels]

Happy to be of help, there is always someone around here helping somebody