Hi,
Spent nearly a month of computer time, editing, sorting and compiling a sideshow which comprised of stills, video footages and background music. The finished, 2 gigabyte project included 236 images had a run time of just over 38 minutes. Prior to burning to DVD as an AVCHD and WMV movie formats (done separately), I ran the Cleaning Wizard to tidy up any spurious and unwanted files. Did this on three separate occasions with each one failing to produced a single, error-free result - the DVD option which took over 2 days of continuous encoding during the last attempt, just refused to proceed beyond around two-thirds of the finish point, while the WMV files stopped short at around 85% with an error message!
I use a Dell Precision 690 CAD Workstation which has 32 gigs of RAM, nVidia Quatro 4000 Graphic Card and 270 Gbyte 15000 RPM Harddisk which as about 50 gigs of free space. After the first two failed attempts, I decided to shut down some of the PC's background programmes, to provide most of the available RAM for the encoding process...No luck!
Any suggestions and/or guidance in this regards would be most welcome.
Rae.