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Render and save as .mov in Vegas Pro 8 not working
I am using Vegas Pro 8 version. A year or so ago I rendered and saved a video clip as .mov and then burned it for viewing on a friends MAC computer.
Now when I choose the Render/save as .mov the rendering zips through at lightening speed as if it is not working. Once Renderes/saved when I try to open the file using quicktime its as if it was never created and the file says:
Cannot open file: SFL is not a file that Quicktime understands
Although I have selected render as quicktime 7. The end result is a file with the extension SFL and the size 116 bytes which seems small.
There is no application that will open up this file. Not Quicktime Pro, Real Player or Windows media player at this point.I am wondering if this is an issue with quicktime 7 as if I remember correctly I was able to perform this task about a year ago. I couldnt find any other way to render or save that might help either.
Thanks for the imput.
Cheers!
Don Kimball
Polytelis Media -
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Don, you should have ended up with an MOV file when you rendered, not an SFL file.
The fact that it went through at “lightening speed” leads me to suspect that you had “render loop region” selected and a minuscule region highlighted.
Try it again and make sure that either no loop region is selected or that the entire timeline is selected. -
Hi Mike:
Actually I had the proper region selected but the culprit turned out to be that Vegas in .mov render would not render/save to my external drive where I was trying to point the render. I have done this dozens of times with .avi files and there has never been an issue rendering to an external drive. .Mov files apparently are a bit more finicky so I simply rendered/saved the file to my hard drive and there was no problem creating a .mov file.
Now I have a new problem. When I use quicktime player the file shows up fine but plays haltingly. Stopping every few seconds and halting, then continuing until the whole file is finally finished.
It acts like a memory problem but then even much much larger .avi files play without an issue. It seems to be an exlusive problem with this .mov file and or quicktime player. Any suggestions?
Don
http://www.polytelismedia.wordpress.com
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Don, I’m glad to hear that you got your problem resolved.
As far as the file not playing properly, I have one computer at work that was giving me grief playing MOV files.
I made VLC player the default player for them and now MOVs and MP4s play just fine. -
If the VLC player can’t play your media, then there’s something wrong with the file. Like you, it is my default player for everything.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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