Working with Sony VAIO notebook, Vista Home Premium, 1GIG RAM, Over 30GIG HardDisk available.
I have been burning movies with DVD Maker all of 2007 with not too many issues (After I found a tip that they must be under 60 minutes.) BUT in 2008....After I downloaded Vista service pack one and upgraded my virus software (Norton 360), and when I tried to make movies again, I noticed I couldnt burn anything over 30 minutes. I made a few disks and continued on. I was trying to make my 3rd movie of the week and now its not working. I have made no changes to software since I burned the first 2 movies. Feel like I am back to square one. Have continually tried to burn a movie under 30 min. No transitions, no titles. It keeps stopping at 60.5% with an unspecified error. Also, I have all the filters unchecked for good measure.
I decided to see if I could burn anything again today- it was only 1 minute long. It worked. One clip with titles encoded quickly and I made a one minute movie today.
So apparently 1 minute is okay and not 29 minutes? I am about to shop for an Apple I am so frustrated at this point.
I have learned that I turn off my WLAN, shut down my virus software, and close Movie Maker that the encoding is MUCH FASTER. So, don't let ANYTHING run when you are encoding, it uses too much memory. Hope that helps someone else.
Do I have a RAM problem??? Thats what I am thinking. Any suggestions?