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Video rendering takes up space on wrong hard drive
Hi, first post here, I’ve done a good amount of google searching and can’t seem to find the answer. I have my preferences in Sony Vegas Pro 11 for where to store temporary files and where to store pre rendered files changed to my F drive, but for some reason when I render videos it takes up an insane amount of space on my C drive, which is a serious problem since that is just a tiny SDD. For what reason might this be happening and how can I fix this?
Thank you.
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You, not any preference, pick where you want to save your rendered videos.
The default is something like C:Documents and Settings so make sure you change this (every single time you render anything) to a different drive. -
Thank you for your fast response.
That is one thing that is confusing me, I have it set for the folder F:Vids. I can navigate there and the file named “test” is being created there.
However, for some reason memory is still leaking off my C drive during this render. There are no installs occurring and no other programs other than google chrome running, and I don’t think temporary files would be that large.
Would you have any other ideas for why this is happening? I’ve tried tracking down these files but I have been unsuccessful.
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Kevin, you’ve done everything properly as far as your temp folders are concerned and I can’t see any reason why your C drive should be getting loaded up with anything.
Even though I have a copy of Win 7 and Pro 11, I’m still on XP and Pro 10 until Sony gets all the bugs sorted out.
I sure hope someone has an answer for you as I’m baffled by this behaviour 🙁 -
Well thank you for your attempt, I hope someone else has been using 11 and has an idea
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What are your project settings?
I got caught out by this once as I opened and copied a project from another one.
All my settings were set to another drive.
However, when I viewed the project properties it was pointing back to the C drive.
Check it out and let us know.
If that’s set to F as well, can you upload screen captures of the settings you have with the specified folders?
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I am fairly certain I have the paths set correctly and I’ll check tomorrow. I’m currently attempting to render a video for the 4th time.
Perhaps you could answer another question for me, it was going just fine until it got to about frame 1600. It did all those frames in 30 mins- 1 hr, which isn’t a big deal to me, but then once it hit the 1600ish range, it has been slugging along, and this has happened consistently at the 12-13% mark no matter what order I put these videos in. I’m trying to render a 7 minute long video and it ALWAYS hangs at that mark, and then renders about 1 frame per 5-10 minutes, which is just insane. Do you have any clue why this could be happening?
It is currently at 2 hours in and we’ve rendered 1696 frames… It estimates 9 hours left, which is ridiculous in itself, but last night it was doing the same thing, I woke up and we made it all the way to having it be 16% done with 24 hours left.
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[Kevin Miller] “Perhaps you could answer another question for me, it was going just fine until it got to about frame 1600. It did all those frames in 30 mins- 1 hr, which isn’t a big deal to me, but then once it hit the 1600ish range, it has been slugging along, and this has happened consistently at the 12-13% mark no matter what order I put these videos in. I’m trying to render a 7 minute long video and it ALWAYS hangs at that mark, and then renders about 1 frame per 5-10 minutes, which is just insane. Do you have any clue why this could be happening?
It is currently at 2 hours in and we’ve rendered 1696 frames… It estimates 9 hours left, which is ridiculous in itself, but last night it was doing the same thing, I woke up and we made it all the way to having it be 16% done with 24 hours left.”
Several people have experienced this issue, including myself.
How much memory do you have set under “options | video | dynamic ram preview”?
If it’s more than 128mb, try setting it to 128mb or less, and see what that does for you.
On my system, anything over 256mb slows down rendering tremendously. Another user on here was just experiencing the same issue, did what I suggested above, and it resolved it for them as well.
It looks to be a bug nobody’s reported to Sony yet.
See this link for more info:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/942814Let us know what happens!
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Hello can anyone help how do I free up my hard drive my sony vegas files are too big and when I delete them they still use up my disk space..””???
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[kyle arce] “Hello can anyone help how do I free up my hard drive my sony vegas files are too big and when I delete them they still use up my disk space..””???”
Empty your recycle bin?
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Hey Man-
Did you ever get this issue resolved? I’m on Vegas Movie Studio Platinum HD 11.0, and am having the same issue (Windows 7 professional). Source video is on F: drive, but for some reason, after burning a bunch of DVDs with the Make Movie wizard, the C: system drive is filling up to overflowing. For the life of me I can’t figure out where the renders are going. The supposed folder doesn’t exist that it says temp files are going. It’s driving me batshit, and I’m at the point where I’m going to have to reformat the hard drive, re-install windows and vegas, and start over. Surely there must be a better way. If anybody has any wisdom on this, let me know? Thanks!
-Ken
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