7 Replies Latest reply: Oct 12, 2011 9:01 AM by Bill Hunt RSS

    Trouble Rendering

    mentalcase129 Community Member

      I'm using Premiere Pro CS3...and I'm having trouble rendering.  I keep getting a 'Error Compiling Movie' message.  I was wondering if it might be related to disk space but I have more than enough free space to carry the finished movie once it's rendered and I think more than enough to handle the rendering process unless it needs way more slack than I realize. 

      Any thoughts, anybody?

      Thanks

        • 1. Re: Trouble Rendering
          John T Smith CommunityMVP

          Actual details, with real numbers, are needed for someone to help

           

          Go read my reply#1 at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/909560 to see the kind of information that is needed

          • 2. Re: Trouble Rendering
            mentalcase129 Community Member

            The error message itself doesn't have any number or anything specific attached to it, it a pretty generic message that literally just says 'error compiling movie,' it also seems to occur pretty early on in the render, it's not like the render is nearly finished and then it craps out.  The movie I'm attempting to render is roughly 20 minutes long and I'm trying to render it as a quicktime movie with mpeg-4 compression.  The footage is also animated if that makes a difference.

             

            My computer has 164gigs of free diskspace and is running windowsXP(didn't like vista, haven't gotten around to 7 yet).  I should also say that this isn't my first rodeo...I'm an animator and use premiere a lot to edit my work.  I don't claim to be an expert but I've always been able to make it work for my purposes and have rendered out tons of movies...including several much bigger than the one I'm working on here, on the same computer.  I don't recall ever encountered this problem before...I think maybe once I had some sort of similar problem but I was able to resolve it by creating a new project and importing the original project to the timeline...so in that instance it seemed like it was most likely a glitch of some kind...which I was hoping was the case with this one but that same solution hasn't worked this go around.

            • 3. Re: Trouble Rendering
              Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

              With a failure to Compile Video, the first thing that I would check for would be gaps in the Video. This ARTICLE goes into a bit more detail.

               

              If there are no gaps, then I would try to find at what point, the error occurs. You might even want to set up a video camera, focusing on the progress bar, to see at what point the crash occurs. Then, carefully examine what is on the Timeline at/around that point. Could be as simple as a corrupt Asset.

               

              Good luck,

               

              Hunt

              • 4. Re: Trouble Rendering
                tmr022

                Hi, Bill Hunt!

                I need your help, I'm editing a video in Premiere Pro CS3 and I need to render the effects, but I press ENTER and nothing happened, I can export to DV AVI, but I can't render the effects in timeline, please help me. This is a professional video, and I need to finish this.

                Thanks a lot.

                 

                Adriano

                • 5. Re: Trouble Rendering
                  mentalcase129 Community Member

                  That did it!  Thanks!

                  • 6. Re: Trouble Rendering
                    Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                    Great news!

                     

                    Good luck, and thanks for reporting your success.

                     

                    Hunt

                    • 7. Re: Trouble Rendering
                      Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                      Adriano,

                       

                      On your Timeline, before you go to Render, do you have a red line above your Clips?

                       

                      If not, there is no need to Render, and you will not get any operation, when you hit Enter.

                       

                      If you have a red line above the Clips, and Enter is not Rendering and turning those green, the most likely cause is that the WAB (Work Area Bar) is set elsewhere along the Timeline. Check the WAB, and if it is NOT over the Clip(s), that you want to Render, just move and adjust it, to cover that/those Clip(s). If you wish to Render the entire Timeline, and the WAB is not covering the entire Timeline, just go to it, and Dbl-click on the little "box" in the middle of the WAB to extend it.

                       

                      For more details on Render, see this ARTICLE.

                       

                      Good luck,

                       

                      Hunt