Convert a Photoshop project to MPEG-2

Hi everyone,

I am very new to video editing, so apologies if I appear numb or ignorant at any point in this question setting !!!

I am using Photoshop 6 as my main editing software, together with Pinnacle DVD500 as my video capture card/software. I run this on a Windows XP Home Edition operating system, with a Pentium 4 processor, 1 gyg of RAM, and 200 gyg Siemens Hard-Drive.

I've managed to create a decent project, using various video clips, transitions and sound files etc. and I am now at the point where I'd like to save this project into MPEG-2 for transfer to DVD creation software and/or Video CD creation software.

After following the procedure in the Adobe manual I've come to a sticking point which I can't seem to negotiate. Here's what I've done.

Opened project in Photoshop 6.

Gone to File, Export, Movie, Settings, Load, Adobe DVD, Save file as MPEG-2.

I then receive an error message ' error saving file ( disk full ? ) '

There is a huge amount of free space on my hard-disk so this is not the immediate problem.

I can convert the Adobe Photoshop project to micro-soft avi, quick-time etc. but i'm being blocked on the MPEG-2 conversion. This effectively stops me from creating the new DVD and Video CDs that are my ultimate target.

Can anyone assist with a solution to this one please ?

Thanks for your time and attention, Ian.

I use Photoshop for the picture editing and Pinnacle A/DVD for the clip editing work. I also use Virtual Dub for fine tuning. I believe you will find a setting in the Pinnacle software that will allow you to import a picture, set the display time, and save to MPEG. I know you can with Roxio's CD/DVD program. While I am VERY new to this, I want to think that the format that is used is MPEG-1 and not 2.

I had noticed that conversion to MPEG was a multi-step process. To take a look at what was going on, I had the save directory open while running a different program (EZ-Convert) on an AVI. Two temporary files were created before the final version. I'm just guessing, but it looks like a video file and an audio file are made then the two are merged into the MPEG file.

You said you had a huge amount of free space on the drive. Having just cleaned out a small project's (home movie type) over 7 gig of capture files, MPEGs, and 2 DVD image files (total image file size approximately 4.6 gig) I wouldn't consider a simple project with under 20 defragmented gig free. Those temporary files need their room too.

This doesn't address free space on the partition with the Windows Swap File. With programs dumping temporary files where ever they want to (Photoshop is a notaable EXCEPTION!), plenty of free space on one partition doesn't mean there is enough somewhere else where it is needed.

Perhaps this will help.

Bill