

For example, change "Johnson's Wedding" to "Johnsons Wedding". Make sure the folder path for the exported file only contains letters and numbers and NOT special characters.Opening a read-only project has reportedly caused this.


If you can locate the problem asset, you may be able to recapture the file or convert it to a new file type to resolve the problem. Keep using this trial and error method to see if you can locate the asset or problem in the timeline that is causing the failure. If the export fails, delete half of what remains in the timeline and try the export again. Undo your deletion and then delete the last qtr of the timeline and try the export again. If the export works, you know the problem was in the last half of the timeline. Delete half the media and assets from the timeline and try to export again.

Export each of your timelines until you find one (or more) that fail. Make a copy of your project so that you can experiment with the copy but leave the original intact. Troubleshooting your timelines can be pretty time intensive. If exporting as AVI and using the Export of Encore feature failed, try exporting through AME using one of the MPEG2 - DVD export presets (this would be the work around). If this doesn't help, then you can try to troubleshoot your timelines and assets or try a work around. You'll find that some files can't be deleted (because they're in use) but you should be able to get rid of 99% of them. Select all the files in the Temp directory and delete them. You can do this by typying %Temp% from the Run (XP) or Start Search (Vista) line. Also, because the Adobe Media Encoder makes a copy of your project file to the Windows Temp folder, make sure that you've deleted all the accumulated junk out of the Temp directory. Do yourself a favor and verify that you do indeed have enough available disk space to render out an AVI file. This error message used to be related to simply not having enough available disk space in CS3, but in CS4 it could be a lot of different issues.
