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  Vegas Rendering problem

  Posted by Robin Smith on October 11, 2008 at 9:46 pm

  Hi,

  I’m trying to render a 68 minute long video for DVD (with chapters) and I’m rendering it to avi. with the NTSC DV template. The video contains live mini DV shots of me, screen recordings of my Mac, and several freeze-frame screen shots to fill in timeline gaps. The screenshots were “snapped” in Vegas so they don’t take up too much space.

  So far, I’ve attempted about 8-9 times to render this but Vegas has yet to complete the render without freezing. On the first few attempts, the rendering stopped at frame #97,479 (at that exact frame each time) which is 78% on the status bar.

  So, I then optimized my Vegas by putting both the temp render folder and the screen capture folder on my E: external drive. NOW it stops at frame #108,178 which is 87% on the status bar. I’ve tried another 4-5 times but it always stops exactly there…it can’t seem to go past that frame.

  The funny thing is, those two frames I mentioned, where the rendering stops, are points when the screen has faded to black right before it goes to the next chapter, or when it’s in the middle of a fade out.

  This is driving me nuts. I don’t know if it’s a Vegas problem or Windows or memory or processing speed. My E: drive has 190GB free space (80%). My main C: drive has 85GB space (55%). But I’m rendering this on my E:. I have 2GB of memory and my whole system is dated from March 2006. Those are my specs. Any ideas?

  Robin

  Robin Smith replied 17 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeremy Rasnic

  October 12, 2008 at 3:51 am

  I believe that you can use those avi files and just add to them. So, if the render stops at 87%, start another encode at just a little before where the issue is and take both avi’s into a new project and render them out there (or you can use a separate program such as womble to just stitch them together- although womble may only just be for mpg files).

  Based on the test you did, it sounds like you are running into memory issues or else it still would have been freezing at the same place. I would be curious to see what your page file usage looks like when rendering out the timeline- have you watched it?

  Try doing a “render selection only” of half the project to avi and then select the second half and do the same thing if you have already deleted the partially rendered file.

  j razz
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  Robin Smith

  October 12, 2008 at 7:41 am

  ‘k I’ll try that. Wish me luck. Thanks

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