Hi I am new to Pinnacle Studio Plus V12 (or any other Pinnacle) and am having some problems with making my current DVD. I have successfully made 3 or 4 others.

 The current movie is 1 hr 43mins long. When I try to 'create disc', either the DVD pops back out again or I get some red writing in the dialog box (the one that gives the instructions directly above the 'create disc' button. This red writing says 'c:\render/home to coober pedy2e7c011b\dvd\studiosequence\temp' (home to coober pedy being file name).

In despair, I cut the movie in half and the 2nd half worked fine - i saved it to an image file then burned it. However, the first half still had the same problem. So I cut it in half again, and once again the 2nd half worked fine being burned straight to dvd, but the first half is still refusing to do anything. I tried resaving it under another name, restarted Pinnacle, and restarted computer. Even tried different type of DVDs. No change.

I am using Windows Vista business edition, Pinnacle Studio Plus V12.

 I am anxious that your response is going to be too technical for me - reading through other posts leaves me scratching my head.

Thankyou in anticipation. 

 

manangatcn:

Hi I am new to Pinnacle Studio Plus V12 (or any other Pinnacle) and am having some problems with making my current DVD. I have successfully made 3 or 4 others.

 The current movie is 1 hr 43mins long. When I try to 'create disc', either the DVD pops back out again or I get some red writing in the dialog box (the one that gives the instructions directly above the 'create disc' button. This red writing says 'c:\render/home to coober pedy2e7c011b\dvd\studiosequence\temp' (home to coober pedy being file name).

In despair, I cut the movie in half and the 2nd half worked fine - i saved it to an image file then burned it. However, the first half still had the same problem. So I cut it in half again, and once again the 2nd half worked fine being burned straight to dvd, but the first half is still refusing to do anything. I tried resaving it under another name, restarted Pinnacle, and restarted computer. Even tried different type of DVDs. No change.

I am using Windows Vista business edition, Pinnacle Studio Plus V12.

 I am anxious that your response is going to be too technical for me - reading through other posts leaves me scratching my head.

Thankyou in anticipation. 

 

Welcome to the Forum

Do these:

1) Manually Delete Auxilliary Files. How to in THIS Post.(The Route in that Post is for XP. I don't have Vista. However, I expect you can find the Vista equivalent). 

2) S12 has the option of Installing Instant DVD, when you 1st Install it. If you did, Uninstall it from ADD/REM PROGS.

3) Expand Timeline in 1st part & look for any gaps. If yes, drop a Standard Title into gap & then Delete it. Gap should close.

Good luck

Anyone-else?

If you have a menu at the beginning, try deleting it.

Don

thank you for quick response. I had already deleted auxilliary files, and looked for any gaps (there weren't any). I just unistalled Pinnacle Instant DVD and tried again - no luck. Any other suggestions? This is driving me insane.

When editting, I was mucking about with menus, but ended up deleting them all because it was all too confusing on such a long movie. I have checked along the time line and can't find any left over markers/chapters etc, but maybe doing this has caused a glitch. I had two title slides at the beginning, I deleted them and made a new title for the beginning - still no luck.

 However, your comment brings up a question - is there any way one can have a menu which either plays all the movie, or else is a scene selection with each selected chapter taking you back to the main menu at the end? I figured that if you make a play all button and click it, it will take you only as far as the end of first chapter, then you will return to main menu anyway.

 

Yippee I sorted it!!!! I decided to look again for gaps or anything weird left over from the menus I had deleted. I expanded the time line as far as it would go, and found one hidden frame which was black with a question mark (left over from a missing photo), plus two little slivers of music. I deleted them and, hey presto, rendering beautifully. Thank you so much for your help.

I deleted all other projects including the other parts of the current project. They are now burned onto disc. Can I get them back into Pinnacle and attempt to burn the lot onto one DVD?

manangatcn:

I deleted all other projects including the other parts of the current project. They are now burned onto disc. Can I get them back into Pinnacle and attempt to burn the lot onto one DVD?

burned as files? or as a rendered DVD?

I meant as a rendered DVD but I have already worked it out myself and thank you so much for all your help, this forum is great.

Thanks for the update. I'm glad everything's sorted.