Can anyone offer any help.  Have completed project approx 18 mins long with still images only- using menus, new montage themes, motion titles, PIP etc.  and have gone to make movie.  Have tried a few times but it stops whilst writing frames and message reads:  export error:realtime c:\programdata\studio14\render/projectname7f6d0279\dvd\studiosequence\temp\01.m2v.  Each time the make movie does not complete then same message comes up but with different number next to project name.  I have read into some previous articles and looked up the m2v and thought that this might be the problem and have deleted motion background titles but it is still happening.

Have tried turning off firewall, have tried re-encode whole movie, turned off background rendering, deleted auxillary files, made new render folder but still makemovie stops with the m2v problem.  Anyone having similiar problems?  

Here's a couple of things to try.

Delete your auxiliary files. Studio will re-create them when needed.

In 'make movie' select 'make file but don't burn'. If this completes properly, you can then 'burn from a previous file'.

Don

Thanks for the suggestion but have tried both these things.  I am in the process of splitting the project into 4 and have so far managed to make movie for first 2 parts - I have kept the original but have copied it and then split into 4 separate projects maing each piece only approx 4 mins long - so far the first 2 have made a movie so no faults there except that the menu was not included in this so it could be that - will keep on trying and will post the outcome - but again thanks for your suggestions .

If you find a segment that causes the error, expand the timeline out to where you can see individual frames and look for a gap. If you find one, insert a blank title in the space, delete the title and the space will close.

Don

Most of the time there is a corrupted frame around the area where it stops the render. So zooming in the timeline to look for corrupted frames should help pinpoint the problem.

Try to export to a file, instead of a disc image.  The advantage is that the fail message will give you the precise frame number at which the failure occured, so you can pinpoint the trouble.  You may have to rebuild a PIP or yank out some corrupted things and replace them.  Or you may get lucky, and perhaps the file will export OK.  Then you could import it to a new timeline, create your menus, and export to disc, probably without trouble.

Another thing, when you are exporting, the scrubber will stop to the frame that it has problems exporting. As JKoch said, the best way to address this is to delete and re-add the part that gives the error.

Mon Roy:

Another thing, when you are exporting, the scrubber will stop to the frame that it has problems exporting. As JKoch said, the best way to address this is to delete and re-add the part that gives the error.

The scrubber will stop at the fail point, but not stay there after the error message pops up, and the "temp01.m2v" signal from a failed disc image burn is not much help.    The message from the file export failure, meanwhile, will give the precise XXXX / YYYY frames point of the failure.

It can be rather vexing to watch rendering for hours, just to catch that instant. 

However, if the poster has narrowed the cause of the failure to specific items (which it would help if he divulged), the watch should not take long, and the fix should be relatively straightforward: substitute, replace, or rebuild.  A corrupted transition, overlay, rotation, or other effect, if not a gap, is often to blame.

senlac1066:

 c:\programdata\studio14\render/projectname7f6d0279\dvd\studiosequence\temp\01.m2v.  

There is that pesky "forward slash" again. Maybe one day I'll find out what it's purpose is.

 

Maybe its meant to be a part of the project name somehow and not a location or path.

Marc P.:

Maybe its meant to be a part of the project name somehow and not a location or path.

Could be. The forward slash is always between the render, and the project name.

I'm wondering if a manual delete of the auxillary files would work here? Haven't spent enough time in S14 to start suggesting it though.  

How bout a copy/paste into a new project ?

bittmann:

 Remove any menus, then copy/paste the project into a new project.  Open your old project, click on the timeline, ctrl-A (select all), ctrl-C (copy), then File/New Project, click on the timeline, then ctrl-V (paste).  Add your menu and chapter points, and see if it starts to act "normally".

Update:  Have uninstalled all studio programs and reinstalled up to 14 ultimate collection.  Saved the project to another separate drive then opened in the newly re-installed S14 ultimate collection but although plays in edit mode still showing export error when trying to make movie. (Vista)

 I have also opened the project on separate computer running under XP and exactly the same as in vista – opens and runs in edit mode but error in exporting to all formats.

 I have gone back into project and tried a step by step process of elimination to try to locate problem – removed all transitions then tried to make movie – same problem. Removed all titles – same problem, removed everything except for photos and still same problem.

 Decided to try and make a new project using the same photos but have not added anything else and made movie – this time it worked so I presume it must be something within the project itself but have no idea what to do to solve it.

 The project only has still photos and no video but I have included menu, montages, titles, transitions, motion titles etc. and is 18 minutes in total length.  When in process of make movie it says there are approx  33,000 frames (sorry didn’t note exact number).  I have tried numerous times and have tried the following:  deleted auxillary files, made new render folder, saved as different project name.

 Sometimes it has gone through the writing of titles, menus and transitions and onto writing frames but then stops.  This happens at different frame numbers, the most it has reached is approx 18,000 frames.

Today I have checked every photo image and have reduced size and resolution for each one.  Have looked at all background images and replaced, also deleted and replaced music and it made it to the stage of rendering titles, transitions etc and then onto writing frames but has stopped again. 

Not sure what direction to go to now apart from having to re-do the whole project again - have been onto online support and pinnacle suggested reinstalling studio which has been done and I have also emailed with this latest information but no response from them as yet.

I need help!

Delete the menu(s), select all assets on timeline and copy/paste it in a new empty project.

Save to a different name.

Rebuild menu structure from scratch, do it right from the first time on, don't try to change anything afterwards and don't use any root buttons.

Does it work now?

I have already deleted menus and saved as a different name but did not then copy and paste it to a new project so will try this out. Thanks and will update with any progress.

Keep us posted with your progress.

Latest update:

I have just posted a request in case anyone has a list of the transitions -

         Does anyone know or has a print out list of where exactly the transitions are in the different options. I keep forgetting where I found a particular transition and have to preview each one to find it.

        I know that the normal ones such as fade etc are in the first folder but the many others are not easy to locate if you don't remember where you found them in the first place.

       Might have to re-make a project as I have had troubles with export error and am working from a print out of the text timeline so hoping this could speed things up a bit. Hope someone out there can help. Thanks

 Latest news on the (corrupt?) project is that I reduced size of photos as discovered some of them were very large files, also deleted and then readmitted music and tried to make movie - left menus out of it completely to see if it works - looked like success as it went through the rendering titles, transitions etc to the stage of writing frames, made it about half way through but then a new problem occured - looks like I fried the graphics card!!! screen went black and no output or signal - oops!

Computer is in bits right now and being checked over but it might mean that I have to re-make the project so hoping that any shortcuts will help.  If anyone has a list of the transitions names and in which sections they are located this would be very helpful. 

Thanks from the new kid in the forum school

Transitions question discussed here.

I have a similar problem in S14, but it only happens when PCM audio is selected.  If I select MPeg the movie burns but my DVD player will not recognise the disc!!  Any ideas?  As a long time Studio user, I have already tried all the other normal solutions without sucess.  Just seems strange that it is only when PCM ausio is chosen.

Try a test render of the Studio sample video with the PCM set to audio and burn it with a DVDRW disc.

Pleased to inform all that I managed to make movie.

 Went through all images and reduced down in size - it seems that some of the images that were given to me on disc were very large so that may have been part of the problem.

I have had to remove the menu as it would not write with this in.

Also I re-worked the project on computer with XP and not on the computer with Vista.

The fonts in motion titler came out differently to what was shown in the motion titler edit pages so had to use basic fonts (chose Arial for simplicity) and this then seemed to work.

Still unsure the full reasons why it would not render but at least I have managed to save the project and produce a DVD.

Thanks to everyone that offered help and although not sure which bit solved the problem we got there in the end.

Thank You to all 

Thanks for the update.