Can't render mpeg on Win2000

Marg wrote on 5/14/2001, 4:49 PM

When trying to render an .avi file to mpeg the system
abruptly reboots. It will be in the middle or towards the
end of a 2 minute render and the system will either reboot
or create and error with reference to the vidfac.exe. I
have uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times. System
consists of a 1 GHZ Athlon cpu, 1/2 gig of memory, Asus
3800 video card, IDE RAID 1 (two 30 gig ultra dma 66
drives) Soundblaster platinum 5.1 sound. I have also tried
pre-rendering and the same thing happens. HELP!!

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Marg wrote on 5/14/2001, 5:17 PM

A couple additional notes, I have tried in .wma format and
the same thing happens. Either I get a blue screen or the
the screen turns black and reboots. This is a custom box
and I have not had other problems with any other apps.

SonyEPM wrote on 5/15/2001, 8:22 AM

The problem is quite likely related to the use of MPEG as
source material. No matter what anyone tells you, it is a
less-than-ideal format for source media, and we do not
encourage its use on the timeline.

If possible, capture to a different format, make your
edits, and then output to MPEG or whatever you wish. MPEG
is a great destination format.