Studio ultimate 12

I have imported approximately 60 photos onto the timeline with a 5 minute song. clicked create smartmovie as slideshow presentation which has simple fades. rendered as a dvd with no errors.

However if i try to create smartmovie as "slideshow documentary" which has lots of slow pans and zooms, it fails to render and says export error. it looks fine in the preview panel.

I have tried this in mpeg2 (sd dvd), and as a bluray.

pc is quad core2.4, nvidia8800gt, 4gb ram, 1tb h/d

Any ideas?

I have found similar problems when using pan and zoom with dissolves... I think Studio 12 has a memory management problem, since smaller pieces of the same movie seem to work fine.

I suggest you break your project into 1-2 minute segments (Proj1, Proj2, Proj3, etc), render them as .mpg files, then create a new project that simply brings them all together.  No need to change anything IN the project.

Be careful if you break on a transition, since it will chop part of each video!  Best to break cleanly... I've had to do this with two other projects and, although cumbersome, it seems to work (my projects had video, still overlays, pan/zoom, dissolves, .mp3 music files, etc..)