Anybody know what this means?

[Chris Young]

When I have seen this happen, not saying this is the problem but it’s worth checking out, is if you have some large still pics on the timeline, especially 32 bit TGA’s. Another thing to check is that you have ‘Dynamic RAM preview’ under options/preferences/video set to 16MB for the render session. Because if it set too high Vegas tends to consume all available ram plus the page file climbs through the roof eventually causing Vegas to ‘hang’ with a similar exception dialogue to the one you just posted. It can also be caused by a corrupted graphic on the timeline.

If all or any of the above is not the cause of your problem you could try a work-around. Render your timeline out in say three or four segments and then bang them into a new Vegas timline and render out as a single file. That should hopefully get you over your deadline problem. If all that fails blame Bill Gates:-)

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

[Allen Zagel]

Don’t know about V6 but with my V5 some time ago I had the same problem. I went and defragged my HD’s and after that it worked fine.

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[Dan Sherman]

Thanks guys,—at least I get a response overe here!

[Dan Sherman]

Dynamic RAM was set to zero. May be the problem.
Drive didn’t need to be defragged.
Waiting and hoping.

[Dan Sherman]

Didn’t work.
Can’t render anything longer than a few seconds.
Just packs up and shuts down.

[Tevya Washburn]

Usually the best place to start with this kind of problem is to do a complete uninstall of the program (in this case Vegas, & I’d do DVD Architect too, assuming you have it, if I were you). Then go to the windows update site windowsupdate.microsoft.com and make sure everything is updated. Then re-download the 6.0d installation file and do a complete fresh install. If that doesn’t fix it, then start looking for other options. In my experience, this fixes about 80-90% of similar problems that are unique to a given program.

–the Fiddler

[Dan Sherman]

Done three uninstalls this year.
Things seem to get better for a while, then go south.

[Edward Troxel]

Do pre-renders of smaller sections before doing the full render.

Verify you are NOT overheating.

Edward Troxel

[Dan Sherman]

By pre-render, do you mean nested?
Right now project is 52% rendered.
40 minutes long,—about 30 nested segments on TL.

Render stopped at 33 per cent twice yestgerday,—-65 per cent and 16 per cent, on varous attempts.
Also, and this may be a clue; Vegas sometimes takes forever, like a couple of minutes to open.
Other times it pops up in seconds.
Puzzling and frustrating.
It has been suggesged on various forums that the problem could be memory, power supply, dynamic RAM setting too low, or too high.
Have done three re-installs in past year and have spend 15 hundred plus dollars on consultations and hardware.
The same problem returns.
Tomorrow I will decide if I will scrap this 6 thousand dollar turnkey work station and buy another or contract with another consultant.
Am leaning toward the latter.

[Edward Troxel]

No. By pre-render I mean Tools – Selectively Prerender Video… to pre-render smaller sections. I have seen cases where rendering smaller sections to DV-AVI worked where rendering the entire project did not. Once several (troublesome) sections have been pre-rendered, you can then often do the final render with no problems.

Also, what format are you trying to render to?

Edward Troxel