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Vegas 8 crashing every time I try to render!
PROBLEM: Every time I try to render my latest video the program never gets further than 13% or so before crashing.
FORMAT: I’m trying to render a 1080i mp4 for Youtube, using a format that has worked fine dozens and dozens of times before.
THINGS I’VE TRIED/FACTS: I’ve tried different mp4 setting as well as rendering in different formats (.mov, .avi) and it’s the same problem each time.
I know my hardware is up to the task as this is the same task it’s been doing for almost a year. I haven’t buggered with anything, either.
I’ve uninstalled and re-installed the software. No difference.
I’ve copied and pasted the video instructions into a new file in case maybe the original became corrupted somehow? No dice.
I was able to render the first fifteen seconds as it’s own tiny video!
I tried rendering as an .mov without my Chroma Keying on (accidentally) and IT SEEMED TO WORK OKAY THEN. But of course I can’t have the video without the greenscreen removed! Still, this feels like a clue?
Anyways, what else can I say? Except a traditional HELLLLLLP!!!
P.S. If it helps, this is what I regularly am rendering: https://www.youtube.com/user/HandfulOfMinutes
Oliver Brackenbury
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Maybe try opening a new project and just run a short single clip with a greenscreen effect, just to verify the plugin isn’t corrupted?
Some thoughts: Maybe your hard drive is getting full? Not your media drives, but the TEMP workspace that Vegas uses. Or maybe you’ve got a lot of small deleted files, leaving no contiguous work space on the drive and Vegas is having a problem with that?
You didn’t say if you were using Vegas’s green screen effect or a plug in. I sometimes use Boris EFX, and it leaves an INI file that often gets corrupted and will stop everything from working. Try renaming BFX.INI to BFX.OLD and see if that’s the problem (if you’re using Boris Effects, that is)
Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ
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Ah, sorry. I’m using the “Sony Chroma Keyer” green screen effect.
I looked in the Sony Vegas folder but didn’t see anything like a temp folder. Is there an unusual name for that folder?
I tried a test on just 25 seconds of footage with the same Chroma Keyer effect and the exact same rendering settings…and it worked fine! I tired rendering the whole video again, thinking maybe something had given, but the program crashed during rendering.
Any thoughts? (P.S. Thanks for your help so far).
Oliver Brackenbury
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If you’re using Vegas Pro, try dropping your Dynamic RAM Preview (Options – Prefs – Video) to 128 MB. and your render threads to 1 and see if that helps.
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> I looked in the Sony Vegas folder but didn’t see anything like a temp folder. Is there an unusual name for that folder?
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Re: Vegas Pro 8.0 Using Lots Of Disk Space When Rendering
by Mike Kujbida on Apr 12, 2008 at 11:49:22 pmUnless you’ve changed the file locations in Vegas, the default is C:My Documents.
If you have a small drive C, it’s easy to fill this up.
The 2 file location options are in Properties (File-Properties – Prerendered files folder) and Options-Preferences (Temporary files folder.If you have a corrupted prerender somewhere in your project, you may be able to flush it out by: TOOLS > CLEAN UP PRERENDERED VIDEO.
Sometimes, when I’ve had render problems, I’ve prerendered the project in pieces before doing my final render to WMV or MPEG2 or whatever you’re using. To prerender your project in pieces, select a portion of your timeline, then TOOLS > SELECTIVELY PRERENDER.
As a work around, you could always render portions of your project, then bring those rendered pieces into a new project to complete production. I know that’s not an answer to your problem, but at least it may get the program completed.
> I tried a test on just 25 seconds of footage with the same Chroma Keyer effect and the exact same rendering settings…and it worked fine! I tired rendering the whole video again, thinking maybe something had given, but the program crashed during rendering.
Are you saving to a media disk or your C drive? OS drives get fragmented very quickly, have you tried a defrag? Maybe run chkdsk (usually in c:/Windows/system32) to make sure there’s not bad sectors that haven’t been properly flagged by Windows.
Ryan Video Productions Inc. Rockaway, NJ
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Okay, results!
> If you have a corrupted prerender somewhere in your project, you may be able to flush it out by: TOOLS > CLEAN UP PRERENDERED VIDEO.
Alas, this did not do the trick.
> If you’re using Vegas Pro, try dropping your Dynamic RAM Preview (Options – Prefs – Video) to 128 MB. and your render threads to 1 and see if that helps.
This worked! Unfortunately it made the render take about two or three times at long but Christ, at least it WORKED.
Thanks for the help and advice everyone! I continue to love this forum.
Oliver Brackenbury
http://www.handfulofminutes.com
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