Sometimes a project gets a (sometimes tiny) gap in the video timeline which the user may not notice or see.  This can ruin the "make movie" process.  It would help a lot if Studio were able to alert the user to such gaps or to close any which impeded the "make movie" process.  Some are stubborn to remove manually.  Sometimes one must create a title frame, expand it, and then delete it from the timeline.  There has to be a better way.

I second that motion. 

 

A long time ago I entered a Feature Request to do a quick "project scan" for things that would cause rendering to fail.  This would be one example.

I don't expect any pre-scan would be perfect, but it seems that in 30 seconds it could check for several known failure modes without actually rendering.  Sub-menus that aren't linked from any other menus, and a few things like that could be caught programmaticaly.

The pre-scan could be done every time (a good investment of a small amount of time), or it could be a button on the Make Movie tab.  That way if you have merely made some small change and are re-rendering a project you know to be good, then you could skip the pre-scan.  But that only makes sense if a scan takes more than an minute.

Wouldn't it be nice to take a few seconds to know that your 3-hour render might fail?

to the quick/pre/debug/... scan - I really like that idea!

To that I would like to add:

1. Better error reporting on render failure to make tracking down problems a lot easier.

2. If a render sits in one place for a long time either quit with an error or ask the user if they would like to quit.

Jerry