The short story is, make sure you have a cool running box because rendering video can pound a CPU into submission.ĭoes your DVD drive support all of the different DVD formats out there? The problem there was that AMD chips run very hot and require a lot of cooling and by having this box in this enclosure, it was getting too hot and by design the chip was shutting itself down. We took the box out and tried again and the problem went away. When I opened the door, and put my hand in there it was very warm. I finally went to his house only to find that he had his box tucked inside this housing under a desk with a closed door. I struggled with this for some time because I had two of the same boxes and I never had a problem.
When ever he tried to transcode to a movie it would always crash after a short period of time. I built him an exact replica of 2 PCs that I have. How well cooled or ventilated is your PC?
If your movie is in another format, make sure that the software supports that. Then just try transcoding to a DVD from there. Then start a new project and import that back in. Then export that as one complete AVI file to your HD. One thing I would try is to render the AVI movie all the way through. The reason Im asking this is that you might be asking your PC to do a lot of work at the same time and its vapor locking on you. Is the movie on your timeline in an AVI format and is it completely rendered prior to you trying to make a DVD from it? You didnt mention what you had for a CPU which was actually what I was looking for. By you only having 512Meg, it will probably take a lot longer. Now that will very with everyone else because of computer specs and compression rates. I have an AMD machine with 2Gb of ram and for me, a 37 minute video takes about 2 to 2-1/2 hours to transcode to a DVD (mpeg) format. Video is very taxing on computers and when you dont have a lot of RAM, simple tasks can take decades to do. Regarding the RAM issue: I always recommend a minimum of 1Gb for video editing. If you are low on disk space, the program is probably crashing because it cant complete its task for lack of space Also, when programs are rendering or transcoding for disk creation, they sometimes will generate the files to a cache area on your HD prior to burning to a disk.
Ive seen similar problems with other people before and it was because they were trying to burn a DVD to a regular CD drive and the software would vapor lock. First I would make sure that the Magix software is configured to point to the right drive.
The fact that your PC hangs and then comes back and says that your DVD drive is not ready is interesting. Very good! Now please keep in mind that I have no idea what you have done thus far so there is a chance that I might be suggesting something that you already did.