Files in Disc Images Folder and Burning Discs

Tusk wrote on 8/31/2019, 3:18 PM

Magix Movie Edit Pro Plus

Hello,

I bought a new PC to edit video with, it has a SSD. I've found that in order to successfully burn a disc, without crashes, all the video files for the project need to be on the C Drive. Unfortunately, video files are getting huge and it seems I should have more space on my C drive than showing. It was suggested to look for extra files in temp folder.

In the Magix folder is a Disc Images folder which has over 120gb files. From the looks of it, these are related to my Blu Ray/DVD burns with files as large as 20gb, some have the full 'movie'.

What are these files for? Are they there so the next time I burn a disc from the project, these files make it more efficient? Why are there full versions of the video I burned. Seems odd that it would make such a big full size file of the movie I'm burning when all I'm doing is burning discs, not outputting files?

Bottom line? Do I need these files, can I delete them? Do I need to save these on a separate drive in case I need to burn another disc? Freeing 128GB would make a HUGE difference in how many files I can import into my C Drive.

Also, where are files for disc burns kept? I experience burn failures which sucks after hours and learning your disc is no good, so once I have a successful burn, where do I look to keep the successful burn files for next time I need to burn that disc? Is this kept in the Disc Images file?

Thanks for any help

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johnebaker wrote on 8/31/2019, 5:07 PM

@Tusk

. . . . I bought a new PC to edit video with, it has a SSD. I've found that in order to successfully burn a disc, without crashes, all the video files for the project need to be on the C Drive. . . . .

I have 3 internal drives in my PC OS and programs, working drive for projects and resources and a smaller SSD drive for rendering to and do not experience any crashes using multiple drives.

Your comment suggests that you have a second drive. If this is an external USB hard drive then this may be the cause of the issues you are having.

I would advise fitting a second hard drive into the PC if you do not have one or are using a USB drive and, if you are doing a lot of editing with significant amount of resources ie video and images, I would suggest nothing smaller than a 2 TB drive. MEP creates many temporary files which can be very large ie much larger than the final video especially if you are using Proxy files.

The files in the Disc images folder are the files that are created for burning to disc. There are also other files created by MEP during the rendering process to create the files you see in the Disc Images folder - these are in the Temp folder location.

Deleting the files in the Disc Images folder is an option, however, If you do and then need to burn the project again they will have to be recreated from the original project. If you think you may need them again then I would suggest you back them up.

Personally I use external hard drives for backing up projects, all resources used in those projects ie video, images, audio and sound effect clips as well as any disc images created.

Also see this topic and put your computer specification, details of drives and sizes and the version number of Movie Edit Pro (MEP) and variant ie Basic, Plus or Premium in your Profile signature so we do not have to ask for it.

HTH

John EB

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Tusk wrote on 8/31/2019, 6:00 PM

Your comment suggests that you have a second drive. If this is an external USB hard drive then this may be the cause of the issues you are having.

I would advise fitting a second hard drive into the PC if you do not have one or are using a USB drive and, if you are doing a lot of editing with significant amount of resources ie video and images, I would suggest nothing smaller than a 2 TB drive. MEP creates many temporary files which can be very large ie much larger than the final video especially if you are using Proxy files.

Thanks for answering. I do have a second drive in my PC, but it's a regular 2 TB Hard Drive, not an SSD like my C Drive is. Initially, I would pull my files from the HD to edit in Magix, launched from the C drive, but I was having too many 'crashes' (burning process frozen) during the hours long Blu Ray process. I spoke to the guy who built my PC and he said the issue could be that I'm editing on my SSD but it's pulling media from a different type of drive, my 2nd HD drive, which might increase the potential for a burn failure. His suggestion was to copy all the needed files onto the C (SSD) drive so when the project is burning the Blu Ray, it would draw from the files on the same hard drive, instead of from the 2nd drive. This actually helped reduce on file burning failures.

As far as I can tell, anything created in Magix resides on the C drive, so even if I launch a Magix project from my second drive, anything created internally in the Magix program, gets output into the C drive?

I guess the short answer is to back up the files in the Disk Images files, and delete them off my C Drive to free up memory? When I need to burn discs again, re-import them into the Disk Images folder?

So the Disk Images foler is where the info is stored when I want to save the info for successful disc burns?

Thanks again

CubeAce wrote on 8/31/2019, 6:30 PM

@Tusk

If MEP is using the C: drive during exporting or burning then they must be creating temp files as my C: drive has stayed the pretty much the same volume of used space (apart from program updates etc) since I installed MEP.

Any internal hard drives used for projects should be at the least 7,200 rpm units or striped (or both) and have large inboard cashes. My C: drive constitutes two 500gig SSDs and has roughly 180gig of used space and seldom varies on used space by more than a gig. I'm also only running an i5 processor and possibly an earlier generation than your i7 so I've no idea why your machine keeps crashing using other drives. I did have a few crashes when I first used MEP but it turned out to be caused by using the wrong audio drivers.

johnebaker wrote on 9/1/2019, 3:39 AM

@Tusk

What is you computer specification?

John EB