After a few successful BluRay burns, I have started running into trouble getting an entire project with nested .veg files to get through an entire render to BluRay .iso without a crash, followed by this message: "The instruction at 0x025377eb referenced memory at 0x021c212c. The memory could not be read." I have 2GB RAM, plus other big fat specs on the PC, but here's my angle on this...
I've done a lot of forum searching and reading, and it seems like there are many suggestions to try out there. But I need to get these several 2-hour HDV projects off my PC, clear drive space and move on, and I can't afford to keep finding out 15 hours into a render that that one tweak didn't work, let's try another. I'm all for experimenting after I deliver these projects. For now, I am looking for a workflow that will rid my PC of these projects with the best balance of quality, speed, drive space and stability.
Here's what I think I know so far. I can render anything out of V7 successfully. I believe I can render any single media file out of V8 to a BluRay .iso file without crashing. So I'd like to use V7 to render the media file and V8 to create the BluRay image file. So of the render settings available to me in V7, what would be the best one to render my HDV project as before bringing it into V8? WMV-HD takes far too long, even longer than the two-step process I'm considering. AVI-Cineform takes too much space. Could MPEG-2 HDV 1080-60i (.m2t) be the way to go? Would there be a significant loss in quality from the resulting file when it goes through another "pass" in V8? Or would it even be compressed again at that stage, since it would already be an MPEG file whose file size would probably fit the BD-R?
I've done a lot of forum searching and reading, and it seems like there are many suggestions to try out there. But I need to get these several 2-hour HDV projects off my PC, clear drive space and move on, and I can't afford to keep finding out 15 hours into a render that that one tweak didn't work, let's try another. I'm all for experimenting after I deliver these projects. For now, I am looking for a workflow that will rid my PC of these projects with the best balance of quality, speed, drive space and stability.
Here's what I think I know so far. I can render anything out of V7 successfully. I believe I can render any single media file out of V8 to a BluRay .iso file without crashing. So I'd like to use V7 to render the media file and V8 to create the BluRay image file. So of the render settings available to me in V7, what would be the best one to render my HDV project as before bringing it into V8? WMV-HD takes far too long, even longer than the two-step process I'm considering. AVI-Cineform takes too much space. Could MPEG-2 HDV 1080-60i (.m2t) be the way to go? Would there be a significant loss in quality from the resulting file when it goes through another "pass" in V8? Or would it even be compressed again at that stage, since it would already be an MPEG file whose file size would probably fit the BD-R?