2 hour 45 minute video project

Bill M wrote on 12/19/2007, 4:45 PM
When I go to render the project it tells me I run out of memory even though I have 1 gig RAM and set up for 4 gig virtual memory. It finally rendered about 1 hour of the project without kicking out. I have about 4 hours of video from our trip to Hawaii.

1)Can you not render more than 1 hour of video to mpeg?

2)Does VMS store the rendered project in RAM and then the DVD architect uses that to burn the DVD? When I render less than 1 hour, a little more than 2 gig, it saves an mpeg file on my hard drive with no problem.

3) Am I going to have to break this into 4 1-hour projects?

Comments

MSmart wrote on 12/19/2007, 5:04 PM
Bill, how is your hard drive formatted, FAT32 or NTFS? If FAT32, you're limited to files sizes no larger than 4GB.
Eugenia wrote on 12/19/2007, 5:06 PM
The compression VMS uses by default for mpeg2 is only good for about 1 to 1:30 hours of DVD footage. Even professionally made DVDs don't usually fit more than 2 hours of footage in there (depends on the bitrate used). So, yeah, you have to split the project to sub-projects and 3-4 DVDs.

As a side-note, I would suggest you edit your video and only use the best parts of your footage. Usually, even among professionals, only 1/10 of the video or pirtures shot is worth to be used in a professional manner.
Bill M wrote on 12/19/2007, 6:36 PM
Thanks for the help.

I'm pretty sure my hard drive is FAT32 but do not know how to verify that.

The only really good parts of my video are probably only 10-20% of the entire package but it is more of a home video and we want to capture as much of our vacation as we can. It sounds as if I will have to break it down to 1 hour segments and put it on 4 DVD's. Maybe only 2 DVD's using double layer DVD's.

It seems this should be stated in the user instructions before I wasted so much time putting together such a long video not knowing I would not be able to render it. As an amateur I thought I could put together 4 hours of video, render it and then the software would just ask to insert another DVD as each DVD was full.

Lessons learned.

Thanks again.
MSmart wrote on 12/19/2007, 7:50 PM
To find out how your hard drive is formatted, right click on Start and choose Explore, locate your hard drive, right click on it and choose Properties. What does it say next to "File system"?

I thought I could put together 4 hours of video, render it and then the software would just ask to insert another DVD as each DVD was full.

Sorry, it doesn't work that way. A few questions, what format are the files from your camera, AVI or MPEG? How much free space do you have on your hard drive?

If you were to render your video in VMS (Make Movie step) as AVI (if your source video is AVI), you could then use those AVI files, bring them into DVD Architect Studio using it's "Fit to Disc" feature. You should be able to get about 2 hours of video on one disc.