I have mentioned this before in passing, but if you are running Vista and are having issues during "Writing final file" during Make Movie...

1. Open Task Manager
2. Click Performance tab and then click on Resource Monitor
3. Click on disk and then click on "write" to sort the column with the process that is writing the most bytes at the top.

If Studio is not listed at or near the top of the list, it is no longer writing the file to disc. That confirms that it is hung up.  Click cancel and exit Studio. 

My workaround is to disable the file indexer (control panel>Indexing Options). Click MODIFY and uncheck all options. Click OK to close control panel. Relaunch Studio and open your project.  Ensure "always reencode movie" is NOT checked. Go to make movie and start the process again. For me,in most cases, Studio picks up with "writing final file" and then completes it successfully. When I remember, I make a habit out of doing this even before final encoding.

Hi Mark,

I've been running into this as well.  Either studio will hang up as you describe, or stop one frame before the end.  I just kill studio using task manager, wait for the watch program to throw up the unexpected error dialogue, close it, then rerun studio.  Continue project, Make move, and continue.  It seems to consistently write the second time.  I haven't had to mess around with indexing.

 

todd

I'm running XP and had hangs on final file write.  I have an NVIDIA 8600 GTS.   I went to the nvidia site, downloaded the latest driver and the hangs have gone away.

Good posts for this thread guys. Pinning this up.

I have mentioned this before in passing, but if you are running Vista and are having issues during "Writing final file" during Make Movie...

1. Open Task Manager
2. Click Performance tab and then click on Resource Monitor
3. Click on disk and then click on "write" to sort the column with the process that is writing the most bytes at the top.

If Studio is not listed at or near the top of the list, it is no longer writing the file to disc. That confirms that it is hung up.  Click cancel and exit Studio. 

My workaround is to disable the file indexer (control panel>Indexing Options). Click MODIFY and uncheck all options. Click OK to close control panel. Relaunch Studio and open your project.  Ensure "always reencode movie" is NOT checked. Go to make movie and start the process again. For me,in most cases, Studio picks up with "writing final file" and then completes it successfully. When I remember, I make a habit out of doing this even before final encoding.

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do you means right click on my computer then properties and device manager?because i dont see Task manager.

Hello:

 

Studio 11 Ultimate but with Windows XP Pro,  Video card ATI X1950 Pro 512 MB (latest driver 8.6), 2 hours video always hang with the "Writing Final File", does anybody had similar problem and solution?

I already tried to kill Studio using the Task Manager and continue the project with no luck.

The only solution I have so far is to create and AVI files, but I still will prefer to use the regular option.

Any hint will be appreciated.

Thank you

Hi,i've just installed studio12 and have the hanging on final writing.  I've used studio 10 previously and never had any trouble.  I use windows XP sp3.  The other replies only seem to offer sugestions to vista users.  can anyone help on this as it driving me nuts and i'm getting a backlog of dvd to movies to make