Rendering Problem; Video Factory

TubaTrooper wrote on 9/14/2004, 10:30 AM
Hi,
I tried to render a project twice to avi. Each time I get the following message:
"An error occurred while creating the media file college tour.avi"
"An error occurred writing the file. Make sure you have write access to the file/folder and that there is enough free space."

The render didn't stop in the same place each time, but in the same event/clip. I checked the preferences tab and my temp folder is in drive with 40GB of free space (NTFS). I'm running a 2.2 gig XP home machine. Any ideas? Thanks in advance...

Chris

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 9/14/2004, 11:35 AM
Well, an obvious diagnostic would be to temporarily delete the offending clip and see if the piece renders then.

Or see if you can render a portion of your project.

Also, defrag and reboot. Could be that you've got enough space on your drive but not enough adjacent space. (Don't know if adjacent space is an issue for Screenblast, but it sure can be with Photoshop!)

Once you've isolated what's causing the problem, it should be easier to address.
TubaTrooper wrote on 9/14/2004, 6:56 PM
Thanks for the suggestions. I did try the defrag/reboot thing (for all three drives). I even uninstalled video factory from my 7gb system drive and reloaded it onto my 20 gb music/picture drive.

Anyway, I pulled the audio from the place where it stalled, converted it to a wav file and married it back up to the video. I tried another render before dinner and this time the project made it 80% of the way. But it gave me the same message when it stalled again (...make sure you have write access to the file/folder and that there is enough space).

I'm just waiting for some more overtime at work so I can get Vegas 5, but am I asking too much by wanting this software to do what it is supposed to...

Thanks again,

Chris
SonyTSW wrote on 9/15/2004, 8:54 PM
Make sure you aren't using the Default Template for AVI. That renders the video as uncompressed and you'll end up with huge files. You'll need to select the appropriate NTSC DV or PAL DV template.