Dear George,
Thanks so much for your help on the 'Crash' issue. However I must some queies---just for my knowledge and information.
I do have a Dell Inspiron of 6GB RAM. Yes you are right indeed that I do use multiple effects and trnsitions for my film. So is it recommended that I use less of them?
And what is it when the project suggests me to give a differnt name?
Thanks and Regards.
nirvan, I have experienced similar incidents on several projects and experience them now and then. What I do its find the effect that is causing the melt down : ) Crash and fix it. I can give you specific examples of effects and the altering of them will cause the crash. I bet redgiant magic bullet fx are cool. Anyway here are my actions to calm my nerves and save the project parts or remedy them. It is a process, so bare with me. I would try and export the project. If it crashes, eport it in parts. I usualy export sections containing one type of effect, then next section containg another until I have the whole project, in parts, but it is the whole project reedit it in MEP and keep effecting. Note- wen exporting in sections, and a crash occurs, that is the section (or 1 of them) that is causing the crash. I then examine what I did. A specific example is, making a collage with the preset, then spitting it. CRASH. so I export that collage in whole (cause thats how it must be exported and I import it back into the project (i choose mpeg2) now I am able to affect this effect like I like without the crash. I could give you other examples of affecting projects and having them crash only to restore backup. I am getting better at avoiding the crash and diagnose sooner. I also be sure and save as I work and achieve awesomeness. HAha at least to my standards. not a tech, but hope it helps.
Hi,
A couple of comments and questions on this series of posts. MEP is one of the most stable and memory friendly video applications I have ever used. However if you are creating large complex projects with complex transitions, a large amount of content and many special effects, and running multiple appications at the same time, you can very quickly run out of the RAM the project needs and cause the application to crash.
The minimum RAM required for MEP to run is 1GB. That does not mean that you only need 1GB on your system and be able to create project of any size you want with however many transitions, fades, special effects, have multiple programs running simultaneously, etc. and the program will perform flawlessly. To seriously edit video, you need a minimum of 4GB RAM (my opinion), I have 6GB and that is sometimes not enough to get the performance I would like when I am in "multi-task" mode.
Beleive me, I have tries virtually every consumer level video editing system on the market, and based on the features you have available, this is probably the most memory friendly one there is. I switched to Magix for all of my video, photo, and web creation application needs from the products whose company name begins with the letter "A" because those products could not handle even my 6GB of memory without frequent crashes and by frequent I mean 10 or more times per day.
With Magix products it is highly unusual if I get 1 or 2 application crashes in a week and I can always see based on my system monitoring software that those crashes were not created by the application, but how my system was using and allocating RAM.
I hope this helps,
George
Hello Anirban,
Rather than use less effects or transitions, I would suggest you start with how many applications are running on your PC when you are trying to edit video. So for example if you have a word processor, powerpoint, a web site with streaming video, a spreadsheet, and a photo editing application, open at the same time, try closing the ones that you don't really need for video editing.
As for saving the project under a different name, this usually occurs after a crash where you have restored the project from a previous back up. It is probably best to creat a new project because the original file may have been corrupted. So if your project was called "Tiger Video" before you got the message, save the recovered project as something like "Tiger Video-2"
George