Audio Will not export for clips longer then one minute

Question

  I am running adobe premiere pro cs3 on my HP Pavilion.  i run windows XP service pack 2.
Until recently i had no problem but the other day I tried exporting from adobe media encoder under these settings:
Format: M-PEG 2
Widescreen 16:9
NTSC
The bit rate varies. I've done larger bitrates and smaller bitrates.  it doesnt help.
And suddenly it would render my full video with an mpg extension but there was no audio. I ran it again but shortened the size of the clip, and it came out perfectly fine, audio in tact.  lengthened the sequence again and it wont export audio. its not that the audio box isnt checked, and its not rendering the audio as a seperate file like it used to.  I do a LOT of editing and run my own online show, so it is very important for me to be able to render these videos like this.  I could always render as AVI but that takes up soooooo much space, and most of the other formats are too low quality for me to import again and edit, or even just to upload for people to see.  can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Yes, HDD = Hard Disk Drive. One often sees it listed as HD, but that can also stand for High Def, so I use the HDD abbreviation myself.
Now, how you have things set up, that 15GB of free space is probably not nearly enough. This is especially if one has their Windows Page File dynamically managed by the OS (default method), as it is very, very likely that the Page File is filling up the remainder of the HDD.
If everything is on the external, media, Project, Scratch Disk, Export folders, etc., one might be able to squeak by with that overloaded HDD, but I need to point out - at about 75% of capacity, the HDD's performance will start to slow, and this will intensify, as more is used. This overfilling can result in failure. I would look into cleaning up the C:\.
Also, when video editing, a 2x physical (not partitions) HDD setup is the bare minimum, and a 3x HDD setup is even better.
Some get around this, a bit, by using eSATA externals, which will be almost as good as the internals. Not sure that I would recommend any other connection type though. I use FW-800 externals, but have a minimum of a 3x internal on my laptop and an 8x on my workstation, so there's always plenty of internal storage. I just use the externals, to migrate the Projects between my computers.
Good luck, and pay really, really close attention to that filled C:\.
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