"Failed to create file"
by Avi Ballo
on
May 21, 2008 at 11:59:49 pm
I'm rendering HD footage in an SD project file as an SD video. The rendering process reaches 100%, then an error message appears that says: "An unexpected error occurred. The file could not be created." Anyone know how to remedy this?
Re: "Failed to create file" by Jeremy Rasnic on May 22, 2008 at 2:10:58 pm
Is there something different at the end of the timeline that is not present for the other 99%? Try just rendering the last portion of the timeline and see if the error still comes up.
What HD files are you using? M2T? AVCHD?
You could also try encoding to AVI uncompressed and see if the encode will complete (this way you will get all of the footage up to the point where the error occurred- it is not an all or nothing scenario). If you watched the AVI file and note that all is there, great; encode that to mpeg-2 and see if that will work. Note though, to do uncompressed you will need a lot of hard disk space. You do not necessarily need to use uncompressed, other AVI options should work just fine. Uncompressed ensures you do not lose any quality in the process.
Re: "Failed to create file" by Avi Ballo on May 22, 2008 at 11:11:44 pm
Thanks, Jeremy! I'm trying to render AVCHD files, and I was using the Photo Jpeg compression setting for QuickTime. When I switched to MPEG 4 compression, the problem went away. Thanks for your help anyway, though.
