Importing AVCHD movie freezes DVDA 5

gerbow46 wrote on 2/26/2009, 2:22 PM

DVD A 5 seems to freeze when I try to import a 55 minute AVCHD movie. Anyone have any ideas why it will not accept the movie? I encoded the same timeline to MPEG2 HD 1920*1080i and it worked a dream.

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/27/2009, 4:41 AM

It sounds like it may be a resource issue. Remember that AVCHD crams four times as much video data into a file about half the size of standard DV, and it takes a lot of power and scratch disc space to work with them.

So make sure you've got ample space on your drive and that your drive is clean and defragmented.

gerbow46 wrote on 2/27/2009, 3:50 PM

Thanks for your reply. I have the maximum amount of ram available under 32 bit Vista and 2x 2.O GHZ Xeon cpus. Surely that is enough power to simply load an avchd movie into DVDA5? Drives are defragged and ample space left.