Dual Layer Rendering?!

RobDerhak wrote on 2/18/2007, 4:59 PM
OK guys, I'm still having issues w/ my file. Here's some basics...

Vegas Movie Studio + DVDA (7.0 & 4.0)
1 hour 43 minute video
Rendering techniques used: Make Movie > Burn It to DVD & Make Movie > Save it to hard drive > MPEG-2, video only

I've tried rendering this project SEVERAL times, and it craps out at the same point in time EVERY time. 1:33:38. I scoured these boards after my initial attempts, became hopeful that I just had some infected media @ that point, so I took some out there, and still, "unknown error" message @ the same point in time.

I imported what DID render into DVDA (V. 4.0) and it says that it is 97% of a Single Layer Disc.

I am all but convinced that for whatever reason, Vegas stops rendering at this point b/c that is all that will fit on a SL disc. Is there settings in Vegas that need to be changed in order to render a larger than 4.7G project for Dual Layer burning? I've spent WAAAY too much time on this, and am getting rather frustrated.

Last resort, I CAN split this into 2 SL discs, but really don't want to (it is a concert, and there are segued songs that I really don't want to break up).

Thanks for any help that you can give me, I'm 100% stumped!!!

- jason

Comments

ScottW wrote on 2/18/2007, 5:52 PM
Vegas does not know or care about what the target DVD is. That's something that DVDA worries about but not Vegas.

What sort of file system are you using on the disk? Sounds like you might be bumping up against the FAT32 limit of 4GB (which co-inkydinkely is about 97% of a SL DVD), in which case you should convert your disk to NTFS.

--Scott
RobDerhak wrote on 2/18/2007, 6:43 PM
Scott, thanks, but that went flying over my head!!!

By disk, are you referring to my HD, because I'm only going to my HD, I can't go to disk until I can finish authoring this in DVDA, & I cant get there since I can't render.

After thinking about it, I don't think that is the issue, because the file size that IS rendering is 4.6G.

- Jason
jtfrazer wrote on 2/18/2007, 7:03 PM
Hi Jason,

FAT32 and NTFS are disk formats that are used by recent versions of Windows. The FAT32 format is the older of the two and it does not support file sizes over 4.0 gigabytes. The newer NTFS supports file sizes up to 18 billion gigabytes!

What version of Windows are you using? Windows 2000 and Windows XP support the NTFS file system but earlier versions do not. You can find out what type of format is being used on a drive by opening "My Computer", then right clicking on the drive of interest and selecting the "Properties" choice.

Jim
RobDerhak wrote on 2/18/2007, 7:54 PM
Hmmm, it is in Fat32, but I have had files larger than 4G on that drive in the recent past. It is my External HD, and I've DL'd several Dual Layer DVD's off of BitTorrents and I've never had a problem with them.

Assuming this is the setting I need to change, how do I change from Fat32 to NTFS?

My C Drive is running under NTFS, so I'll try rendering to that right now.

Is there anyway that my external HD switched formats w/o my knowledge, or through some inadvertent mouse click?

Thanks - Jason
Chienworks wrote on 2/18/2007, 8:13 PM
It's pretty much impossible for a drive to go from NTFS back to FAT32 without repartitioning and reformatting. It couldn't have happened with a casual mouse click.

When you say you've downloaded DL DVDs, were these single files in excess of 4GB or were they a set of 1GB .VOB files?
ScottW wrote on 2/18/2007, 8:17 PM
External drives frequently come preformated as FAT32. Here's the MS article on how to convert: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/convertfat.mspx
RobDerhak wrote on 2/18/2007, 8:24 PM
Chien, I don't remember. Assuming it would have been impossible for it to come down as a single file, I'll work under the assumption that they were .VOB. I don't have any on my HD currently, and the .txt files that I have don't say.

Thanks for the help on this everybody. Like I said, I'm trying to render to C Drive right now, I'll post in the AM to let you know if it worked!!!!

Thanks agian - Jason
RobDerhak wrote on 2/19/2007, 6:33 AM
:)

It worked. Thanks to all for the help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Jason