This same thing is now happening to me. Click "Make DVD" and the program says "Not Responding".

Everything is up to date as suggested above. I even uninstalled Ulead Movie Studio11 and WinDVD8, which are the only programs uninstalled since the last time I used DVD Architect 4.5-d.



Even old projects I've made have the same result (not responding).


I can burn DVD's using other software just fine, so it's not the burner.

Any other suggestions? Thanks.

EDIT: OK, this is weird, while I was typing the note above I let DVD Architect just set there with the Not Responding message and lo and behold the rendering interface popped-up after a couple minutes. Color me confused, but it seems to be working...

Same problem.

Never had the problem before, until today. I've been using DVDA for six months and even started burning Blu-Rays with no problem.

Program freezes on "Make DVD" no matter what media I use. I even did "Make DVD" without including a media file and it froze.

The choice to actually burn or not comes a few steps after "Make DVD"

Welcome to the club. This thread has appeared many times in this forum because there is still no solution from Sony.

Depending on what version of Windows you are using, there is a bug in DVDA which can collide with another application and cause a crash, but usually it is a hardware device. If you can find the hardware it is colliding with, you can disable (not uninstall) the offending device. Players and burners are the prime suspects which can be hijacked by other applications. As pointed out, Nero is known to do this and so is Roxio.

However, there is still another bug in which DVDA goes scanning the hardware when Make DVD is invoked and can take a long time. Meanwhile, it reports " Not Responding". As long as you do not get a crash, be patient, the program will come out of Lost In Space and it will operate properly.

There is a setting in Options to select "Do not scan", but it does not seem to help much.

Another thing I've found to be an issue, and not mentioned here is the blocking of download media by Windows Security!! Check your media to make sure it is NOT BLOCKED by Windows Security.

I just upgraded my OS to Windows 7 64-bit. Vegas Movie Studio 7.0a and DVD Architect all worked great right up until I clicked "Make DVD" in Architect. It crashes and points to msvcr71.dll. I have the file in system32 and sysWOW32 so I'm not sure what's going on - any ideas?

Sony DVD Architect Studio
Version 4.0 (Build 25)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x0 IP:0x7C370252
In Module 'MSVCR71.dll' at Address 0x7C340000 + 0x30252
Thread: Main ID=0xE58 Stack=0x18D000-0x190000
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0023 EIP=7c370252 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=002b ESP=0018d2f0 EBP=0018d570
ECX=00000000 DS=002b ESI=00000011 FS=0053
EDX=0018d570 ES=002b EDI=00000000 GS=002b
Bytes at CS:EIP:
7C370252: 66 83 39 00 8B 44 24 04 f.9..D: 57 8B F8 74 47 33 D2 66 W..tG3.f
Stack Dump:
0018D2F0: 0763C8D0 07610000 + 2C8D0 (sfcd.cdd)
0018D2F4: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D2F8: 00000000
0018D2FC: 0000001A
0018D300: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D304: 00000000
0018D308: 00000000
0018D30C: 076110AB 07610000 + 10AB (sfcd.cdd)
0018D310: 00000011
0018D314: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D318: 00000000
0018D31C: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D320: 100AC3FC 10000000 + AC3FC (sfcdix.dll)
0018D324: 0018D378 00090000 + FD378
0018D328: 00000000
0018D32C: 1000561B 10000000 + 561B (sfcdix.dll)
> 0018D350: 10021ECE 10000000 + 21ECE (sfcdix.dll)
0018D354: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D358: 00000000
0018D35C: 00000002
0018D360: 02BBED94 02B50000 + 6ED94
> 0018D514: 76FBA763 76F80000 + 3A763 (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D53C: 76FADE63 76F80000 + 2DE63 (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D540: 76F9FCF4 76F80000 + 1FCF4 (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D548: 76F9FBDA 76F80000 + 1FBDA (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D54C: 76218F2E 76200000 + 18F2E (KERNELBASE.dll)
> 0018D558: 76F9F982 76F80000 + 1F982 (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D55C: 76218F39 76200000 + 18F39 (KERNELBASE.dll)
> 0018D804: 00440049 00400000 + 40049 (dvdarchst40.exe)
- - -
0018FFF0: 00000000
0018FFF4: 0068C178 00400000 + 28C178 (dvdarchst40.exe)
0018FFF8: 7EFDE000 7EFDE000 + 0
0018FFFC: 00000000

"I just upgraded my OS to Windows 7 64-bit."

Well, that's a no-brainer.

DVD Architect 4.0 was released before Vista, and is not even "officially" supported for that OS, so how reasonable is it to expect it would work with Windows 7?

Looking into my crystal ball, I can see an upgrade in your future . . .

Alright there "no-brainer" boy. I understand the limits of compatibility, but I have come this far getting this software to work on an unsupported platform, so I figure it's worth the question - no? Vegas Studio 7.0 is rocking, as well as most of Architect - just need to cross the goal line. You've been very helpful ; )

Anyone else? I know the file is native to Visual Runtime, and I assume either the version of the dll Architect is referencing is not compatible or the registry is screwy.

Thanks in advance!

-CW

As I indicated above, there is a bug in DVDA which causes it to crash or freeze when invoking "Make DVD" for unknown reasons so far.

With Sony Support on the line, IN MY CASE, we found a collision between DVDA and my resident Blueray player. By disabling (not by uninstalling which is different) the player, "Make DVD" did not crash.

Therefore, one possible suggestion for you is to disable your local DVD players and disconnect any external devices. Then run DVDA and see if it does not crash.

Note that there is a big difference between the PC crashing and the program freezing. A secondary bug in DVDA is that, if it does not crash, it will show freezing "Not Responding" for a while. Just wait, the program will resume and you can proceed but in a different workflow, obviously.

In Make DVD use Prepare to a Folder, not Burn. Note the name and location of the folder.

With a separate burning program such as ImgBurn, etc reactivate (enable) your burners and burn the folder to a DVD disc.

I know it sucks, to put it mildly, but the other benefits of editing video in Vegas and then authoring in DVDA make it worthwhile until a root solution is found.

Good luck and please report what you find. There is a very long line of users with this problem waiting for an integral solution.

Slow response from DVDA, when importing from or preparing to external or network drives, is a known issue. As is slow response when dealing with very large or high-bitrate imported files.

It is my belief that a large portion of the complaints similar to the ones in this thread are the result of inexperienced and/or impatient users (who panic the instant they see "Not Responding" in the titlebar), and the use of non-optimized files and external drives for media storage or preparation.

"Anyone else?"

Well, here's a quote from Ed Troxel over on the DVInfo forum:

"Bottom line is that DVD Architect 4 does not support Win 7. If you want to get Win 7 support, upgrade Vegas/DVD Architect to the newest version. "

BTW, Ed is one of the most respected teaching pros on the planet, and author of Excalibur for Vegas. So please don't take my word for it (Windows 7 was released 3-1/2 years after DVDA Studio 4.0).

I was wondering if it might be an issue recognizing my Blu-Ray Burner/Player. If this solves it then that's fine, as I always use Nero to burn the DVD anyway, but having to enable/disable everytime would suck I wan to "Prepare" a DVD. My Blu-Ray player/Burner is internal. I'll see what happens.

Genuis Melachrino - I went to Control Panel > Device Manager > DVD/CD-ROM Drives and disabled my HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH30N. Shazaam! The Make DVD button didn't crash and I was able to Prepare my DVD. Me thinks we all need a patch : )

Thanks for the help!!!!

I start another copy of DVDA after the first has hung, and it works fine.

Does this same crashing issue happen with DVDA 5.0?

"Genuis Melachrino - I went to Control Panel > Device Manager > DVD/CD-ROM Drives and disabled my HL-DT-ST BD-RE BH30N. Shazaam! The Make DVD button didn't crash and I was able to Prepare my DVD. Me thinks we all need a patch : )"

The kudos belong to the patient Sony Support on the phone who zeroed in on the collision and cure.

But, I agree, we need a patch fix but i have not seen one coming yet ... many others have reported similar collisions with primarily Internal Blueray players and burners. Why ? Don't know.

Hope this workaround continues to work well for you.

"Does this same crashing issue happen with DVDA 5.0?"

Yes. And with versions a and b. Mercy us. But the workaround works on these versions.

"Yes. And with versions a and b. Mercy us. But the workaround works on these versions."

Yikes - I'm glad I didn't upgrade. If I found out I had the same issue afterwards I'd be pretty pissed.

I'm not sure if this new issue I'm coming across is directly related, but now if I try to burn a dual layer disc I'm not getting the Layer Break Selection page. I would assume this should come up even if I burn an ISO image? My burn settings are set to 8.5 GB in the options. Maybe this only comes up if you use DVDA to physically burn to disc?

Answered my own question - you do need to burn it to an actual drive to get the Layer Break page. The ISO image burner won't set this for you. I hooked up my old Pioneer Dual Layer burner which worked fine. Apparently you also need some sort of burner enabled to also get the ISO image burner option which is kinda weird.

I'm working on a fresh install of DVDA 5.0 and it started doing it from the start. This was after a fresh install of Windows Vista 64 bit.

Uninstalled, then defragged the drive, rebooted, reinstalled... same issue.

It won't even allow me to end the process. It's a hard lock up.

Sony, where are you on this one???

Hello, I'm running Windows XP Pro and Vegas Movie Studio Ver. 7 and DVD Architect 4.0.

On 7/25/2010: hip school preppie pasted the following error.

Sony DVD Architect Studio
Version 4.0 (Build 25)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x0 IP:0x7C370252
In Module 'MSVCR71.dll' at Address 0x7C340000 + 0x30252
Thread: Main ID=0xE58 Stack=0x18D000-0x190000
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0023 EIP=7c370252 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=002b ESP=0018d2f0 EBP=0018d570
ECX=00000000 DS=002b ESI=00000011 FS=0053
EDX=0018d570 ES=002b EDI=00000000 GS=002b
Bytes at CS:EIP:
7C370252: 66 83 39 00 8B 44 24 04 f.9..D: 57 8B F8 74 47 33 D2 66 W..tG3.f
Stack Dump:
0018D2F0: 0763C8D0 07610000 + 2C8D0 (sfcd.cdd)
0018D2F4: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D2F8: 00000000
0018D2FC: 0000001A
0018D300: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D304: 00000000
0018D308: 00000000
0018D30C: 076110AB 07610000 + 10AB (sfcd.cdd)
0018D310: 00000011
0018D314: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D318: 00000000
0018D31C: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D320: 100AC3FC 10000000 + AC3FC (sfcdix.dll)
0018D324: 0018D378 00090000 + FD378
0018D328: 00000000
0018D32C: 1000561B 10000000 + 561B (sfcdix.dll)
> 0018D350: 10021ECE 10000000 + 21ECE (sfcdix.dll)
0018D354: 0018D570 00090000 + FD570
0018D358: 00000000
0018D35C: 00000002
0018D360: 02BBED94 02B50000 + 6ED94
> 0018D514: 76FBA763 76F80000 + 3A763 (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D53C: 76FADE63 76F80000 + 2DE63 (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D540: 76F9FCF4 76F80000 + 1FCF4 (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D548: 76F9FBDA 76F80000 + 1FBDA (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D54C: 76218F2E 76200000 + 18F2E (KERNELBASE.dll)
> 0018D558: 76F9F982 76F80000 + 1F982 (ntdll.dll)
> 0018D55C: 76218F39 76200000 + 18F39 (KERNELBASE.dll)
> 0018D804: 00440049 00400000 + 40049 (dvdarchst40.exe)
- - -
0018FFF0: 00000000
0018FFF4: 0068C178 00400000 + 28C178 (dvdarchst40.exe)
0018FFF8: 7EFDE000 7EFDE000 + 0
0018FFFC: 00000000


Two days ago I was sucessful in burning a DVD. Just a short test disc. Since then when I click on Make a DVD I get the exact error message you have pasted below. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, no help. If I setup all my preferences to save all the various file types in the same directory (my E: drive), would this cause a problem? Are there any files that I might not be aware of that are stored on my C: drive? Last, is the fix to disable my LG BD DVD burner? Any suggestions from anyone would be appreciated.

thanks,