Some weeks ago I visited this site because of problems (Nero not responding and faiiing during transcoding) and as a result I changed my version of Nero buring ROM to 6.1.0.18 and Nero vision to 3.1.0.21. I was then able to transcode quick time movies and jpeg stills and burn dvds, but only if I kept the size of the project to not much more than 1GB. Larger projects would fail during transcoding (stop responding). In an effort to overcome this limitation I added more RAM to my PC. Increasing it from 256Mb to 1.256GB. The PC has recognised the extra memory and it seems to be working OK. I have now tried using Nero again. The first new project I created became corrupted, so I had to start again. This second attempt seemed OK, but I now find that I can create a movie, but I cannot edit it. When I go into edit mode vision express closes and it drops back to the smart start screen. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Many thanks.
When Nero starts doing this kind of crap the usual soution is to remove it completely with the CleanTool and then a reinstall. Nero likes to fail when you perform seemingly unrelated tasks on your PC and installing RAM may be one of them. The CleanTool will remove stray registry entries that may be left over from your previous installation. It also removes your serial number most of the time so you should have that written down. http://nero.com/nero7/enu/Nero_6_CleanTool.html While you are at it, check and see what file system your HDD is using. Open Windows Explorer, right click C: and select Properties. You should be using the NTFS file system. Older FAT systems restrict the file size which can cause problems when working with large video files. So you have a 1 gig chip in one slot and a 256MB chip in the next? I don't know what that might do. I'm not a computer expert at all so maybe you or someone who is could comment...it just seems a bit lopsided....probably works just fine though. Plenty of RAM for DVD work.
Thanks fasfrank. I'll try what you suggest. Regarding the 'lopsided' memory. I read the manual for the motherboard (Gigabyte manufacture) and visited their website, and I saw nothing to suggest this would be a problem. I did take the precaution of putting the 1Gb in slot 1 and moved the 256Mb to slot 2.
Arniebear. Yes, the disc is formatted in NTFS. It is partitioned. The nerovision project is in drive C and the referenced movies and stills are in partition F. At the beginning of this thread I said I had Nero burning ROM 6.1.0.18 - this is wrong, it is actually 6.6.0.18. I tried unistalling, cleaning and re-installing all of Nero (I didn't install InCD as I believe this can cause problems). I had the same problem. So, I deleted that project and started again. Still the same problem - couldn't edit the movie after saving and closing the application. I experimented and found that the problem was caused by transition effects. A project containing a transition effect had this problem, but one only having text effects works ok (touch wood!) Any ideas about this?
I don't have a simple solution, just a few ideas. Some things to check into... Any time you are adding transition effects it gobbles up a lot of system resources. Even though you have the 1.25 Gb of RAM you could still be running into memory problems if you have other things eating up your system resources. Just make sure you have all other applications closed while editing. Take a look at your task manager and see how your PC is performing as well as what othe apps are running in the background. Try and get all your editing work onto one partition and see if that makes a difference. If your HDD is having to make large jumps to different sectors it may be slowing things down enough to cause problems. Make sure you are not going overboard with effects. All of them require computer power to generate, including processor power. While you are at it make sure your processor is not overheating and the fan is OK. You probably have checked this while changing your RAM but I just thought I would mention it. Hopefully your processor is up to the job. Editing does allow you to add layer after layer of effects so you can see how this is very demanding on all your system components in addition to your RAM. Something to think about when adding clever bits to your video. Remember that simple is generally best.... Star wipes by the dozen and various exploding cubes with text jumping all over the place won't impress folks as much as a simple, clean editing job, IMHO.
Thanks again fasfrank. I take note of using up computer resources with adding effects. Since I've been working with Nero (about 4 months on and off) I've only ever tried to add transition effects and text. My current project seemed ok on just using text (more about this later). I always turn off Norton security when video editing and there are no other applications running. If I look at task manager at the beginning of video editiing then 99% of cpu time is allocated to nero vision, but a further 43 processes are listed (no other applications. I hadn't considered that the hard disk partitions could be part of the problem, but I'll experiment with this. Processor and fan are ok, but I'll keep checking them just in case. The processor is an AMD XP1700. I think this is sufficient, but what is your view? Regarding my current project. I recently completed this. It contains one movie and one following slideshow. The movie has 9 chapters and text (all of it plain and static) in 11 locations. The slideshow also has plain static text in various location. The total size is 1.4Gb. Transcoding seemed to be going ok, but at the end of the movie the application just hangs - its as if it's waiting an instruction that the movie has ended or that it has to proceed to the next step. I have left it for up to an hour, but nothing changes. When I look at task manager the cpu is running on about 1% of capacity - all of it allocated to system idle. Nero vision is stated to be running, but when I click on 'end' a message appears saying 'the application is not responding'. Any suggestions gratefully received.
I don't know much about AMD cpus. I did find out that this one was released 10/13/01. It is fairly old and slow so that's probably not helping much. Here is a thought. Once you get everything edited, try cutting the project in half and then transcode each half separately. Once these are done join them back together with Shrink. This will absolutely ruin your menus so a rejoin with Shrink may not be the answer. You could try opening both halves and with NVE and see if you can add the menu then....What I'm trying to tell you is to figure out a workaround for this. For whatever reason you're not quite reaching the end of the process so you will need to do something to lessen the load and/or shorten the length of transcoding time. I'd really try to get all your "assets" in one central location if at all possible. That would be just a matter of moving some folders and files around. I'd put everything on C: drive. A couple of more things to check.. When NeroVision is working it uses a temporary file. Make sure you have enough room. Here is what mine looks like: (from my Nero log) [17:13:08] NeroVision total data size : 39567951 bytes [17:13:08] NeroVision multiplexed size : 41322496 bytes [17:15:15] ExpressUI Burn process started by user. [17:15:15] ExpressUI Destination: C:\Documents and Settings\Frank\NetHood [17:15:15] ExpressUI Directory for temporary files: C:\DOCUME~1\Frank\LOCALS~1\Temp [17:15:15] ExpressUI Available hard disk space for temporary files: 127459.703 MB You can see that I have plenty of room. One last thing to check or change is your "Priority" while transcoding. If you've noticed, you can change this after you start the transcode process. Try changing it to low or at least something lower. Maybe that will take some of the load off your cpu. Frank
Fasfrank, Thanks for your last piece of advice. I produced a dvd, keeping things simple and setting the priority to very low. I didn't understand the significance of the priority (still don't! except that changing it worked) and I had tried previously setting it to high, with no success. I've also started moving files to drive C, ready for my next attempt at making a dvd. Regarding the available size for temporary files. I couldn't find this in the log of the recording, so I'm not sure how much space I have. Paul
