DVD burning problem..."low memory"

Colorado Sean wrote on 1/2/2009, 6:17 AM
I am running DVDA 5.0a. I created several MPEG-2 clips in Vegas 8 and rendered them there. Then I imported the video to DVDA (like I have done dozens of times). Then I go to burn a DVD and after about 10 minutes I get an error saying I am low on memory and shutting down other applications may help. I have tried reburning with nothing else running but no success. My computer is only a year old ( 3 GB of RAM) and it has burned before.

I am not as tech savvy as most on the boards but I can't see why it won't work.

Any suggestions?

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Colorado Sean wrote on 1/4/2009, 10:29 AM
I appreciate the assistance. I checked the performance tab and the memory usage is 1.37 GB and the page file being used is1230m / 7087 m . On the processes tabe the memory usage highest was DVDA - 190,000 (ish), then DWM.EXE 45k and Explorer.exe 28K. Only the DVDA was fluctuating.

I was watching the Performance tab during the rendering process and nothing spiked high. DVDA just flashed up the error message.

Thanks again.
Colorado Sean wrote on 1/10/2009, 10:32 AM
Thanks. I'll open a question with Sony and try some of the other things you mentioned. I appreciate your time.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/10/2009, 11:02 AM
I fail to see how restoring a disc image is going to fix transient "low memory" issues.

You said you are rendering out Mpeg-2 in Vegas Pro 8 and importing into DVDA. But are you closing your instances of Vegas and rebooting your machine before working in DVDA? This is SOP for me.

Vegas puts huge amounts of data in memory, and will slow down everything on your machine, unless you periodically save, exit, and in some cases, reboot.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/10/2009, 1:27 PM
Restoring a disc image should be a carefully considered action of "last resort' for generalized unrecoverable failures, and not a first option, ever. There are many logical, practical reasons for this.

If it is your reflexive response to do a full disc restore every time some little issue crops up, then go right ahead and do it. I strongly recommend against offering this unfocused approach as advice to others, however. This is all I will say about this.