I made a wedding video for friends in two parts, to burn to two DVDs. I have
both parts as (separate) Encore CS3 projects. Each has just one timeline, with
an imported AVI file created with Premiere CS3 as the video and audio tracks,
and a subtitle track (not imported, but created in Encore). The AVI file for
Part 1 is approximately 52 minutes. The AVI file for Part 2 is approximately 62
minutes.
I have burned DVDs from both multiple times successfully. The last time being in
November.
I need to make another set of DVDs now, so I opened both Encore projects for the
first time in a few months. Part 2 looks fine; I don’t see any difference from
how I remember it.
However, I’m wondering if there is some kind of glitch or something has gotten
corrupted with Part 1. Let me explain.
The first time I ran “Check Project,” it turned up only the usual “Title Remote
Not Set” or whatever that ubiquitous one is. But it also froze the program. I
couldn’t close that Check Project screen and indeed Encore had stopped
responding entirely. I had to right-click on the icon at the bottom of the
screen and force it closed.
After reopening, it shortly froze on me again (though I don’t recall during
which specific operation), and I forced it closed again.
I restarted the computer and reopened Encore. I ran “Check Project” and it now
identified not only the Title Remote thing, but claimed the project exceeded
disk capacity.
I checked various settings and such, but could see nothing out of order.
The timeline properties put the “Encoded Size” at 3.11 GB. (Just going from
memory of what standard DVDs hold and that in the past with other programs I had
been able to get a maximum of about an hour and thirty-five minutes on them,
3.11 GB sounded about right or maybe just a tad high for 52 minutes. I would
have guessed maybe 2.75, 2.80 or somewhere in there, but this was certainly in
the ballpark. By comparison, the 62 minute Part 2 is listed at an Encoded Size
of 3.79, so they’re in proportion with each other.)
I’m not sure why 3.11 GB would exceed the disk capacity.
I ran Check Project again and got the same result, only this time it also froze
the program again.
I forced it closed and reopened it, and decided just to press on and try to burn
it to DVD as an experiment.
So I went to “Build: Disk” and went through the process. I skipped the option to
check the project, since I figured it would just freeze up again. At least twice
it warned me the disk capacity was exceeded and encouraged me to abort, but I
skipped through that and told it to build it anyway.
During the build, where it keeps track of the progress, it said “[such-and-such]
out of 5.88 GB.” So somehow it seemed to think the 3.11 GB of material needed
5.88 GB of space on the DVD.
It got to the end and announced that it had had to leave some material off due
to exceeding the disk capacity, and it ejected the disk.
I put the disk back in and attempted to play it on Windows Media Player. Though
I only perused parts of it, it looked totally normal. I checked the very end of
it, and indeed it held the entire 52 minutes of material.
About the only thing odd that I’ve noticed about it thus far is Windows Media
Player displays a choice of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, when in fact the project
isn’t divided into chapters. But on the player, Chapter 1 turns out to be the
whole project, and Chapter 2 is blank. (If I double click it or right-click it
and choose “Play,” nothing happens.)
So unless there’s something more subtle wrong with the disk that I haven’t
discovered yet, I suppose if I can tolerate the constant freezing, I can still
burn disks.
But of course I’d like to get it back to normal.
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So the next thing I did is I tried a “Save As” so that I could experiment with a
duplicate project without risking making the original project even worse. It
took several minutes to duplicate everything, and then when it got to the very
end, Encore froze yet again and I had to force it closed.
The duplicate project could not be opened, so I just deleted all that and
returned to working with the original project.
I went into My Computer and found the folder for this project that Encore
automatically creates when it renders the material or whatever, and I deleted
the entire thing. Then in Encore, I removed the AVI file, so that now the
project consisted solely of a subtitle track. I then did “Save As” with a new
name, and this time it went through without freezing.
I then imported the exact same AVI file I’d just removed, making the project
seemingly identical to what I’d started with. Interestingly however, under
“Encoded Size,” it now said 1.49 GB, which seemed wildly low for 52 minutes of
video. I did “Check Project” and it turned up only the usual Title Remote
thing—no mention of exceeding disk capacity. So I did “Build Disk” and burned
another DVD. While burning, it said “[such-and-such] out of 4.38 GB,” so there
was no more mention of 5.88 GB.
Again I perused the DVD but didn’t examine it in its entirety, and it looks
fine. It appears identical to the one I burned earlier, including having the
mystery blank Chapter 2.
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