DVD Creator Error

[Mike Truly]

For the first time, I have been trying to explore the new DVD Creator feature.

I have an SD 4x3 D1 project and the current sequence is a single, rendered HQ clip of one of the other edit sequences.

I click on the export button and select DVD Creator. The app looks like it is trying to start up but then I get this error:

D3DERR_OUTOFVIDEOMEMORY

I click OK and the app never opens. This is on a system with two display cards - a QuadroFX3400 and a QuadroFX330... so there's plenty of video memory.

Any idea what's wrong here?

Is anyone else with multiple display cards having this problem?

Thanks!

[PaulTV]

Mike,

I tried with a D1 project and got "failed to Render" switching to DV made it work, I guess it doesn't see a D1 project as compliant - try it anyway it may help.

Paul

[Mike Truly]

Paul,

Thanks for that... I thought D1 might be automatically converted by the app.

Unfortunately, I just tried switching the project settings to a 720x480 setting but I still get the same error when DVD Creator tries to start. Perhaps no one tested it in a multi display card environment?

Thanks anyway!

[PaulTV]

I know it sounds daft, but can you temporarily dissable one card?? to see if it fixes it?

and did you check where it's making its tempory files - and did you try to make files only - no disc?

Paul

[GrassValley_KH]

Is it a consistent crash? Or random?

[Mike Truly]

Paul, thanks I was about to try that and as I suspected, it is because of the 2 display cards. When I disabled the QuadroFX 330, the DVD Creator app starts properly. So now I have to reboot between 2 hardware profiles in order to use DVD Creator.

Kenneally, it's not a crash... just an error message when DVD Creator tries to start. Perhaps this can be looked into in the future... making it work with 2 display card systems.

Thanks!

[GrassValley_KH]

What I was leading to, was that I am wondering if you simply have to change the overlay back to DirectDraw..

[Mike Truly]

Kenneally,

Sorry... didn't get that. I will do a test.

Thanks!

[Mike Truly]

Kenneally,

OK... it already was set to 'DirectDraw'. I switched it to 'Direct3D9'... still the same result of the error message on DVD Creator trying to start. So it definitely does not work for me with 2 display cards enabled.

As an aside... is the Direct3D9 setting a better/faster setting to use?

Thanks!

[GrassValley_KH]

I'm not sure of the speed benefits if any. I don't know if it's actually using the GPU of the graphics card, or just software-based Direct3D calls instead of DirectDraw.

It's main purpose in life is to provide compatibility with Windows Vista (for EDIUS Neo only, which is a child product of the EDIUS 4.5 engine).

The benefit for mine, is the smooth, interlaced appearance of video on a non-interlaced computer monitor.

[Mike Truly]

Kenneally,

Ahhhh... OK. I'll leave it set for the time being to Direct3D9 although most of my video viewing is done on the video ouputs and the preview window is just a postage stamp.

I'll make a post in the bugs forum for the DVD Creator issue.

Thanks!