Two full days (and partly nights) trying everything to solve this problem, reading every single topic about that on the forum... I thought I'd better ask a question to the community before throwing my PC through the window...
Basically here is the history of my problem :
I created an Encore project, containing 58 videos, organized in 14 menus.
I checked the project : no errors.
I tried to build an iso image : everything went well for 10 minutes, and all of a sudden Encore crashed.
I understood that this comes from the transcoding of the videos and that I had to do it manually.
As this point you should know that my videos are created in Premiere Pro CC, encoded (through "Export/Media") with Adobe Media Encoder with the MPEG-DVD format and PAL-DV pressets. When I imported them first in Encore CS6, as timelines, the video asset (MPEG video, m2v format) and the audio asset (wav audio, wav format) have a "don't transcode" status.
I right click on each individual asset, modify the transcode settings to "automatic", and ask for "trancode now".
And here is the issue : sometimes it would transcode, and sometimes NOT ! Just randomly...
At the end, as you can expect, I have 1/3rd of my assets trancoded and 2/3rd not !!! Frustrating................
I tried the following :
- Edit / preference / general / transcode asset using adobe media encoder application -----> doesn't solve my problem
- Create a new projet, import only one timeline and try to transcode -------> sometimes it would transcode (then I can manually locate transcoded file in my usual projet by right click on the asset / locate the trancoded file), but sometime not....... (I told you in the title, this is random...)
- Encode with Adobe Media Encoder with an .avi and try the all process again -----> sometimes it would transcode, sometimes not (but still I miss transcoded time lines)
- Checked the titles for length issues, special character issues, etc. -------> found no particular issue (at least comparing the files, I see no explanation of the randomness of the problem)
- Right click / Run as administrator ------> doesn't solve my problem
- Free space in my C driver (now I have 27GB of free space, I guess it's enought for Encore to work, right ?)
- ... and a lot of other stuff, which I won't list here...
AND I STILL HAVE HALF OF MY ASSETS UNTRANSCODED !!!!
Technical details
.m2v file (generated by Adobe Media Encoder with MPEG-DVD format and PAL-DV pressets) : 720*576, 25 frames/sec.
.wav file (generated by Adobe Media Encoder with MPEG-DVD format and PAL-DV pressets): 1536 kbps
the original material is mostly .MOD files, but also .avi (it should have no influence because from two .MOD files originated videos, one would transcode and the other not)
PC DELL Precision M4400
Intel core Duo CPU T9600 @2.8GHz
8GB RAM
Windows seven professional
You see, it is saturday night, 9 P.M. I've been in front of my PC for more that two days now with no success. I just surrender at this point and hope that one of you guys can find a solution for me. And to be honnest, I hope that this is just a stupid mistake from my side, this would mean that I won't have to spend again hours on this topic.
Looking forward to hear from you all !!!
Jacques