Power Producer

[dazuk1972]

Does anyone else get a problem with Power Producer sometimes where it fails to create and organize folders just before burning. Last night I ran a home movie through and it was taking ages and I went to bed hoping it would be burnt to DVD by the time I got up and it was still on 78% of creating and organizing folders. After, other things went well and now I'm doing another and it's stuck on 99% with two minutes and five seconds remaining. It says it's generating menu near the bottom of the window and that has been displayed for nearly half-hour. Why does it keep messing things-up? I'm sick of this because it takes ages to create and organize the folders and it's so typical it should do it right on 99% on the dot.

Other video editing software I can't get on with because the editing features don't show a strip of film where I can drag the film strip either left or right for editing Adobe Premiere Elements is retarded where it flashes my production location on the screen and the whole software crashes through some options. When I chose where I want to produce to, that's when the destination folder option goes mental and the rest of the software follows.

Anyway, why does Power Producer fail it's job a lot?

Many thanks.

[djmaro76]

I ran into the same issue with PowerProducer. I realized my windows system drive, C: was close to running out of disk space.

In powerproducer, if you have more than 1 HD in your PC, you can set your temp folder to another location such as D:\Temp or E:\Temp.

I watched the temp files build up during my next attempt and it created tons of 2mb temp files. That can quickly fill up the hard disk.

As an added measure, I changed the user environment variables from C:\temp to D:\temp under Control Panel, System, Advanced Settings, Environment Variables. Change TEMP and TMP to D:\TEMP. This places all system temp files in the new folder.

[dazuk1972]

I ran into the same issue with PowerProducer. I realized my windows system drive, C: was close to running out of disk space.

In powerproducer, if you have more than 1 HD in your PC, you can set your temp folder to another location such as D:\Temp or E:\Temp.

I watched the temp files build up during my next attempt and it created tons of 2mb temp files. That can quickly fill up the hard disk.

As an added measure, I changed the user environment variables from C:\temp to D:\temp under Control Panel, System, Advanced Settings, Environment Variables. Change TEMP and TMP to D:\TEMP. This places all system temp files in the new folder.

Many thanks for the info. I have two other hard drives but they are external.

Sometimes I come across another problem where a production doesn't always save in the chosen folder and I have to try again in another location and it works.

Many thanks.