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Every time I save my video to any device....it will get to about 67% complete and then stop...and just hangs, the timer starts going backwards, and then I'm forced to quite...does anybody have a suggestion, what my problem could be
 
Vamp said:
Every time I save my video to any device....it will get to about 67%
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complete and then stop...and just hangs, the timer starts going backwards,
and then I'm forced to quite...does anybody have a suggestion, what my
problem could be?

From Papajohn's site at: http://www.papajohn.org/ , (here's the direct
link:)
http://www.eicsoftware.com/pictures/PapaJohn/Website-MM2/MM2-Issues-CantSaveMovie.html
(copy/paste if link wraps)

Basically, make your swap file LARGER than the sum total of the movie...OK,
I wasn't very scientific and just set the swap file to be 1.5Gb, which
worked for me. Read the page for more. Although before I did the swap file
thing, I was able to save as dv-avi and then compress via Windows Media
Encoder (which is a better way of compressing anyway).
 
Hi there,

Creation of a swap file greater than 1.5 times the size of available RAM
goes against the advice given by Microsoft. In addition, making a swap file
of say 13GB (one hour of DV-AVI) puts a tremendous strain on the index
system that looks after the swap file and as a swap file cannot be
defragmented it will end up spread across the hard drive. That alone will
increase the burden on the CPU and be completely counter productive. In
addition if the video is 13GB in size, you now need 26GB of space plus the
overheads needed by the program.

As the problem includes saving to the hard drive I would imagine that
this is a DLL or codec problem, OR, the file's index has in some way become
corrupted....a small Integer value > 32767 will appear to the CPU as a
negative number...that would make time appear to run backwards (I.T. 101) I
am not saying that small integers are used, I am just using that as an
example the same would occur for any number that exceeds its maximum value
(Upper Bound).

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
 
John Kelly said:
Hi there,

Creation of a swap file greater than 1.5 times the size of available RAM
goes against the advice given by Microsoft.
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True, but if it works temporarily and gets a movie saved, then it's a start!
In addition, making a swap file
of say 13GB (one hour of DV-AVI) puts a tremendous strain on the index
system that looks after the swap file
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I meant of the output video size - as nothing I'd saved in wmv format was
bigger than 650Mb I didn't get that far.
and as a swap file cannot be
defragmented it will end up spread across the hard drive.
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Unless you use the "clear swap file at shutdown" registry key, but I agree
that's not ideal either.
MM3...now that might help!
 
Alan Parker said:
True, but if it works temporarily and gets a movie saved, then it's a
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start!

A swap file is just that...it swaps out a page of RAM at a time. As it
can ONLY exchange one page at a time there is no point whatsoever in it
being greater than 1.5 times. Most of the 0.5 is used as a storage for the
index's that are created so as to perform like a poor man's RAM disk
I meant of the output video size - as nothing I'd saved in wmv format was
bigger than 650Mb I didn't get that far.
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Thats exactly what I was saying...making a swap file as big as the
output file....I went on to say that it takes up at least double the amount
of space of the hard drive plus temp files that may be created along the
way.
Unless you use the "clear swap file at shutdown" registry key, but I agree
that's not ideal either.
MM3...now that might help!
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Thats not defragmenting......the reserved space remains exactly as it
was prior to shutdown...a region(s) of the hard drive that the system treats
as un-movable. The system treats the first empty contiguous blocks of hard
drive as the beginning of the pagefile...it then leapfrogs forward looking
for further contiguous blocks.....end result a mightily fragmented swap file
that serves no purpose other than taking up both resources and drive space.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
 
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