So I bit the bullet and went out and bought a copy of MS3 at CompUSA for $59 + tax. I was looking forward to being able to render into MPEG2 using the MainConcept encoder.
I have a very large (55Gb) capture file - AVI uncompressed - that I previously was able to render to uncompressed AVI file in the trial version of MS3. I selected a 1h 14m segment to render and this rendered down to a 16Gb file. I then tried to burn to DVD using Ulead Movie Factory. Unfortunately the Ulead burn subprogram was unable to burn it to DVD, even though it claimed there was enough disk space, DVD space, etc. It bombed out saying the file was too big for my DVD even though I had selected "Good - 2hrs". Oh well. Typical of how this project has been going.
So I bought MS3 and loaded the 55Gb file and selected the same 1h 14m segment and this time I tried to render to MPEG2 using the "NTSC DV" template. It said the resulting file would be 3-4 Gb. Nice. The MainConcept program started up rendering OK and ran for a while, but when it got to 22% done it just hung. I couldn't even cancel the task using the Cancel button. I had to go into Task Manager and kill off MS3. I tried again and again it hung at 22%. Same deal. Plus it takes 5hrs to even get to 22%. Has anyone else ever had this problem? I have *plenty* of free disk space and a 2800Mhz processor and 512 Mb of memory. Latest patched W2K. I've gone back to rendering to uncompressed AVI, but I still have no way apparently to burn the DVD.
I have been working for over a week now and have used three software packages trying to get a simple 8mm tape onto DVD. I never expected it would be this difficult. Very disappointing.
I have a very large (55Gb) capture file - AVI uncompressed - that I previously was able to render to uncompressed AVI file in the trial version of MS3. I selected a 1h 14m segment to render and this rendered down to a 16Gb file. I then tried to burn to DVD using Ulead Movie Factory. Unfortunately the Ulead burn subprogram was unable to burn it to DVD, even though it claimed there was enough disk space, DVD space, etc. It bombed out saying the file was too big for my DVD even though I had selected "Good - 2hrs". Oh well. Typical of how this project has been going.
So I bought MS3 and loaded the 55Gb file and selected the same 1h 14m segment and this time I tried to render to MPEG2 using the "NTSC DV" template. It said the resulting file would be 3-4 Gb. Nice. The MainConcept program started up rendering OK and ran for a while, but when it got to 22% done it just hung. I couldn't even cancel the task using the Cancel button. I had to go into Task Manager and kill off MS3. I tried again and again it hung at 22%. Same deal. Plus it takes 5hrs to even get to 22%. Has anyone else ever had this problem? I have *plenty* of free disk space and a 2800Mhz processor and 512 Mb of memory. Latest patched W2K. I've gone back to rendering to uncompressed AVI, but I still have no way apparently to burn the DVD.
I have been working for over a week now and have used three software packages trying to get a simple 8mm tape onto DVD. I never expected it would be this difficult. Very disappointing.