Forgot to add and this is important go to settings > Format select NTSC (before adding files) and color model yuv 8bit. What may be happening is a preset say is 1080i and it's trying to make weird conversions from NTSC mpg to whatever. Daniel
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Daniel Jircik <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had problems loading bulk files into Cinelerra as well. Try this. > In a console start Cinelerra, go to file, select New. Popup will ask > for parameters. Top left is Presets. Select NTSC and bottom right is > Color Model select YUV 8 bit. Now save the file with your project > name. > > Try loading just one file as New resources only. Double click it and > it should appear in the viewer window. > On the timeline toolbar select drag and drop mode (the arrow). > Drag the clip from the assets window to the timeline and make sure it > shows up on the compositor window. > > If all is good save the file and start adding assets in smaller > numbers, say 5 at a time. > > That should tell you if everything is ok from console errors etc. > > ciao > Daniel > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Adam B <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for the quick replies, flavio and Frans. I tried again with no >> luck. Here's what I tried: >> >> 1) Increased the the "Number of index files to keep" from 100 to 300. >> 2) Launch cinelerra from a terminal so I can see why it crashes >> 3) From the file menu select "Load files..." >> 4) Select all my mpg video files (164 total). >> 5) Select "Create new resources only" and click okay >> 6) Watch my system-monitor for the next 5min. Free physical RAM quickly >> goes to zero. After that, free swap slowly declines to zero. >> 7) Cinelerra dies with the console message: "Killed". I'm fairly certain >> that the OS took pitty and killed it as opposed to Cinelerra crashing. >> >> Am I doing something wrong? By the way, my Cinelerra version is 2.1CV. >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
