I thought Macs never froze . . .

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ColorBalance

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I am having this annoying problem. DVD Studio freezes while muxing at different locations (32%, 46%, 77%, etc.). Have a Mac-pro 8 Core, 10 GB Ram, and a lot of hard drive space.

The color wheel comes on and the only solution I have is to turn the system off, and back on. Have gone through this at least 5 times. Once it did mux properly. So, it's a random error.

Has anyone gone through this before? I have the latest version of the FCS. Thx.
 
Who said Macs never freeze up- they definitely do though not that often. Try deleting your DVD Studio Pro prefs file first.

-Noah
 
macs do lock up from time to time. motion 3 was freezing my computer. I did an unistall then brought it back in and now it works fine.
 
Which version of DVD Studio Pro are you running on that Intel Mac?

It must be at least 4.1.2 I believe.

And if you are running the latest version, how was the suite installed?

Fresh or archive?
 
I was having some problems with rendering video on my mac last year. It turns out the problem was a bad memory module.
 
I keep mine updated regular basis, so I must have the latest version (I am in the office, and so don't have access to it). I installed using the CD's. So, I am assuming it is called a fresh install.

The only problem I have seen so far is with DVD Studio. Rendering in Final Cut seems to be fine. Only during 'muxing' it freezes. At random points. So, can't be a corrupt file. Besides, it has happened on different files.

I know everything about a PC, but nothing about a Mac. Don't even know how to Ctrl-Alt-Del in Mac.

Will try to follow some of the suggestions given here later tonight. It's been so frustrating. After hearing Mac and Mac from everyone, I figured my problems were all over after the $3,000 investment! Not so!
 
ColorBalance said:
I know everything about a PC, but nothing about a Mac. Don't even know how to Ctrl-Alt-Del in Mac.

...After hearing Mac and Mac from everyone, I figured my problems were all over after the $3,000 investment! Not so!
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1st: Cmd-Option-Esc

You will have trouble w/ a Mac, they aren't perfect, but much better OS & hardward than MS or most PCs.

I still see myself as a PC person that has fallen for a Mac. One big thing is I don't have to worry about viruses or IE. As for working w/ a NLE, I know that my OS, hardware and software are all made by one company. You'll run into bugs, but a lot fewer than if you built your own PC.

Now if you're really tired of your OS crashing, learn Linux. Four years of college w/ 90% of my friends being Computer Science majors, Linux crashed once.
 
if you think there is ANY system that doesn't crash you are wrong. macs have far fewer issues than pc's in general. that's why we use them.

the bigger problem i see is that you are letting dvd studio pro convert your video to mpeg2. i assume this because you say your crash happens when muxing. dvdsp does a horrible job of compressing and your videos will look crappy. use compressor to convert your vids to mpeg2 and you will see much better results and much faster dvd burns.
 
zijital said:
Now if you're really tired of your OS crashing, learn Linux. Four years of college w/ 90% of my friends being Computer Science majors, Linux crashed once.
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yeah linux!!! if only the pro apps were compatible i would switch. mac os is great but too many bells n whistles i don't need using up processor and ram.....
 
This is what I am doing. Actually, this is what this board suggested me to do.

From FCP, I export to Quick Time movie with current settings. It take me about 90 minutes to export a 90-minute file.

Then I use Compressor with built in settings (90 minutes best video). This conversion takes more than 2 hrs.

Then I go to DVD Studio, create the menu, and ask it to burn. This process takes minutes unless the system freezes during muxing. Yesterday, I could burn one copy successfully. But minutes later when I tried to burn one more, it froze.

My original footage was shot on an EX1 at 1920 x 1080i 24-frame resolution.

In the DVD menu, I do use a 3-minute WAV audi file that I copied from my PC.
 
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That's right they don't, but if you hear three loud beeps jump in the closet cause it is about to explode. They sometimes self destruct due to unhappiness from lack of gaming.
 
Basic troublshooting for the mac:

Start Activity Monitor and then set it to "Open at Login" (Right click on it on the dock to set this.)

Then set the dock icon on Activity Monitor to "CPU History".

Then when things beachball, look at it in the dock-- is it all red or green? Then your CPUs are processing. If its all red then something is locked up.

Click on the activity monitor to switch to it, and then look at the processes (select "All Processes" from the popup tab)

Sort by CPU usage and see what app is the problem one.

If the CPU history is not showing high CPU usage then your problem is probably a lack of memory. Sort the processes by memory and see who the culprit is.

This is not your mac that is the problem here, or the operating system. I bet its adobe-- I bet when you do this you'll find the adobe updator or license checker is locked up.... but that's just a prejudice of mine because adobe used to do that before I got wise to it and removed all their application from my machine.

BTW, don't force boot on a beachball, give it 10 minutes or so. Try putting it to sleep if you're on a laptop.

Going for "Control Alt Delete" was the way of the PC for decades, but its not a good idea with a mac, only as a really last resort. Just hitting the power button once may help or hitting it once and hitting return would be better than forcing it to crash.

Its quite possible your force booting it like this has caused data to be corrupted because it was writing it out when you force booted it and that is what's causing the problem now.

Use disk utility to check the disk, that's also a good idea.
 
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