Blu-Ray disc burning in Pro 8

[Jeremy Rasnic]

Can you provide more information?

Such as project settings, file types, fx, render settings, etc.

What do you have on the time line at the very beginning?

[Pete Locascio]

Jeremy,
Here’s some additional info on my Blu-Ray rendering problem.
The video files are AVCHD taken directly from the Sony picture motion browser. There are also some stills taken from a CD rom. The beginning of the timeline has some animations from Digital Hotcakes. I’m not using any FX, but I used track motion on a separate video track to resize and superimpose the stills. The rendering process got to 6% and then froze. The project settings were NTSC widescreen and 8 bit pixel format. I tried using HDV 60i but got the same results.
When I tried to burn a BLU-Ray disc, I used the following settings from the screen. I chose the render and burn option, video format- Sony AVC, Video template- BLU-RAY 1440x1080i 15mbps video stream, audio format- dolby digital AC3 Pro, and the default audio template which is the same as the Vegas instruction manual suggests. The rendering process gets past the animations in the beginning as well as the first superimposed still before it locks up. I did burn a short BLU-RAY video successfully prior to this project. I’m using a new Sony BWU 200s burner. The vegas manual suggests trying a slower burn rate if you have problems but 2x is the only option, the 1x option seems disabled just prior to initiating the rendering process. I would imagine if the settings were wrong it wouldn’t even begin the rendering process, but at this point I’m just stumped. I had no problem rendering and burning an MPEG 2 version of the same project. Hope this info helps. Thanks!

[Jeremy Rasnic]

What are the dimensions of those pictures you are using?

j razz

[Jeremy Rasnic]

What are the dimensions of those pictures you are using? You may want to try resizing them to a smaller size. If you are doing a lot of deep zooming, you may want to make them double the dimensions of your final rendered project dimensions. If you are not, make then the project’s dimensions. They could be eating up your resources and pegging out your memory.

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL and watch your performance tab in the Task Manager. Watch your page file and see if it pegs out when your render stops working.

j razz

[Pete Locascio]

Actually the pictures are 4 different sizes. 3072×2304, 2272×1704,
1439×1920,and 960×1280. I tried deleting all the pics and getting rid of the picture motion track and the project rendered up to 52% in BLU-RAY before locking up. So is there something else in addition to the pics that could be causing trouble? My Vista based machine has a huge hard
drive,4 gigs of RAM, and a powerful processor. I also rendered looped sections of the project with some success. The main thing I noticed is that there seems to be a lack of consistency as to when the program fails to complete the rendering process. I downloaded Pro 8c, but had the problem with 8b also. Any additional help owuld be appreciated. Thanks!

[Jeremy Rasnic]

It sounds like you are using up all of your memory and then Vegas has nothing to pull from. Try this: (assuming you want to keep your pictures in there you will need to resize them). Render out to a lossless (or near lossless) format such as Cineform Avi or the such. Once it stops rendering, you should have access to the portion that was successfully rendered. Place that on a new timeline in another instance of Vegas and save it. Then render starting where it left off with a little overlap. Do this until it completes and then render your new timeline filled with the partial renders (after syncing up the portions).

I know this is not ideal, but even though you have 4 gigs of ram, it sounds like you are maxing it out. Another thing you may want to try is to change your ram preview to something like 128mb and see if that helps.

j razz

[Pete Locascio]

Thanks for your suggestions. I had the Task Manager diplayed while trying to render the project again in BLU-RAY and noticed that the memory being used was about 2 gigs which left a good amount to go before maxing it out. I did notice,however,that the CPU usage was pegged at 100% when the rendering process stopped working and the program froze, even though I have a powerful quad core processor. I’m going to resize the pics and see what happens.
Also,I’m a little confused about the project poperty settings I should be using. I’ve been using NTSC widescreen and the size defaults to 720w x 480h. Should I be using another setting such as one of the many 1080 settings that are available in the drop down list?
Additionally, when I put the MPEG2 rendered version of the project in my BLU-RAY player it shows a 1080i format when I toggle the display button. The picture is very clear and defined and looks like high definition even though it was not rendered that way. I use a Sony HDR-SR7 camera which records in 1080i.
Am I doing something wrong? Thanks