Very Complex Projects.....

D7K wrote on 1/10/2012, 7:16 PM
I have a 15 minute video that uses all available tracts. It has a large still background, lots of text and titles (maybe 20/25), a full music score, and lots of green screen stuff. probably 20 to 25 files to each video/audio section.

My system is AMD945/16 Gig's memory/ about 3 TB's free space including 1.5 on the system drive. My system is shutting down at the 7 or 8 mintues mark (Blue screen, 01x (lots of zeros here). I'm using VMSHD 11 pre suite build 283, my AMD 5445 1 Gig video card has the newest Cat. driver.

Any thoughts on this? Do I need to build shoter segments and then put the segments together?

I've done the 64 Bit fix on the files.

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Chienworks wrote on 1/10/2012, 7:44 PM
I think i might try splitting up the project vertically rather than horizontally. Identify a small group of tracks that may be dependent on each other but not on the other tracks, solo them, and render them to a new (near) lossless format. Repeat with the next group of tracks, etc. In some cases you might have a complex track with a lot of media that you end up rendering all on it's own.

Now build a new project with these few pre-renders on the timeline to replace the full complexity.

You will have to watch out for cases where lower tracks showed through due to empty sections of upper tracks. These sections won't be empty anymore so you may have to split them out and delete them.
musicvid10 wrote on 1/10/2012, 8:19 PM
"My system is shutting down at the 7 or 8 mintues mark (Blue screen, 01x (lots of zeros here)."

I'm suspecting maybe you have an external drive that is shutting down to protect itself from heat. I had a WD MyBook that did this until I gave it a better ventilated home.
D7K wrote on 1/10/2012, 9:08 PM
I've got six fans in my system. It doesn't shut down with longer less complex builds. I'm gonna try the verticle sectioning. I don't use any external drives. I'll keep you guys posted, thanks for the help.
chulaivet1966 wrote on 1/11/2012, 7:50 AM
IMO....I would underscore what musicvid states.

In my reading/experience a 'bluescreen' infers a hardware/driver problem.
So...if not an external drive problem I would check other hardware settings and driver updates.

It may even refer the problem hardware device on the 'bluesreen'.

I'm still on my first cup of mud so hope this helps a bit.....carry on.