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Can’t render – vegas pro 8 always crashing
Hello! I’ve been trying to render a video in Sony Vegas Pro 8 since Tuesday but it always crashes. I’ve been working with it for 3/4 months (vegas 7 and then vegas pro 8) and never had this problem. My laptop has windows vista and the following characteristics:
Intel(R)Core(TM)2 CPU 75550
1.66GHz 1.67GHz (?)
RAM – 1GB
32 bits (?)I have two drives with 6gb and 34gb of space left. So…I tried to render a video to wmv and it started crashing..it blocked..there were ‘execptions’ happening..’vegas has stopped working’, preview screen got red… Sometimes it crashes around 1/2% (most of the time) but I was able to render the video until 50/60% twice but then it froze. Yesterday I noticed that some audio clips were red and I replaced them..now they’re all white.
Last week I rendered a video just like this one (a bit smaller)..wmv clips..wmp audio..everything was fine. I tried to render it again and it worked… (I cancelled it when it was around 20% but it was going fine). I don�t understand what’s wrong now. I’ve been searching for answers, went to youtube..checked my physic memory (it reaches 96/97% while rendering), cpu use (?)..reaches 100% sometimes..Can anyone help me? -
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I have had a problem similar to this. I was working on a project for a week or so, and suddenly the renders started crashing. It would get to 11% rendered, and then the render time counters would continue incrementing, but the percent of render was frozen at 11%. There were a lot of stills right at the beginning of the project. I finally determined that it was crashing when it reached a particular still. I took that still out, and it started rendering OK again.
I had another project that behaved in a similar manner (stopping at around twenty percent if I remember correctly), but I think I just rebooted on that one and it was OK.
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I know where it usually crashes but sometimes it renders that part..why is that? :/ I tried to render to mpeg-2 and mainconcept and it worked fine (the quality sucks but..). Why can´t I render to wmv? :S
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I reported this issue to Sony long time ago and Sony was never able to resolve it so I render typicall first to uncompressed Sony YUV and then use another renderer. Especially since Vegas doesn’t support WMVHD 1080i (only progressive for some unknown reason).
And WMVHD 720p looks bad. The downscale sharpness is not great (even at best settings and no matter what scaling method you choose).Here are some suggestions from Sony which may or may not help:
– In preferences general: disable ‘enable no recompress long GOP rendering’
– In preferences video: set max threads to 1
– if Vegas crashes at start add vegas80.exe to DEP exclusion list (Windows Control panel, performance, advanced settings). -
I too have had this very frustrating problem. Previous projects would render fine, but the current project would always crash Vegas at apparently random spots. I made all sorts of project changes to try to resolve, but nothing seemed to really help.
I run an Intel i7 processor which is quad core. So naturally I had my render threads set to 4.
When I reset the render threads to 2 it completely resolved my crashing problem! What’s more, I didn’t notice any performance degradation and Windows tells me that 8 threads are still working in parallel.
Hope it works for you.
Curt Charles
Lilywood Productions -
Go to options>preferences>video and set number of threads to 1. Mine was set at four and it would crash every time at 1-2%, after I set it to one it renders flawlessly!
Hope this helps.
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