Having problems when rendering in Sony Vegas

[Frederic Baumann]

In the Options/Preferences/Video, did you try to set the max RAM for preview to 0, and max threads to 1? (you will find detailed instructions in this forum if you look for the ‘memory error’ keywords). It is also explained on the sony support forum or FAQs.

I am not a Vegas Pro user (only Studio), but I think many Pro users have fixed a similar problem this way.

Hope it helps,
Frédéric

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[Steve Rhoden]

Try also to uninstall the present lagarith codec you have and
download a new version….But why are you rendering using the lagarith
codec for something destined for youtube?

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[John Pucci]

He is probably using it as an intermediate file because it is essentially lossless. As an alternative try Huffy UV. It’s just as good.

John

[Atanas Tsekov]

Thanks for your posts!

I did what Frederic Baumann suggested but the issue still exists. I even tried to render the 5 minute movie in 320×280 but without any luck. Did some searching in this website but I couldn’t really find an appropriate answer because some of the threads regarding my problem were left unanswered.

[Frederic Baumann]

Sorry that it did not work for you. Me too, am getting crazy about rendering to some formats (DivX and Xvid in my case). It does work for some lucky others on this forum, the Sony support says it is not supported, and in my case it always fail 🙁

Anyway, do you have at least one output format for which you can render successfully? (if not, the problem might come from the format of your input AVI files… Even if I know it has worked in the past).

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[Nigel O’neill]

I get this a lot as well, but get around it by rendering in the 64-bit version of Sony Vegas Pro. This assumes you are able to run/install Vegas on a 64-bit version of Windows…

Intel i920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 9 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1

[John Pucci]

So how did you make out Atanas?

John

[Atanas Tsekov]

So today I was trying out to render with different formats and different codecs but nearly everytime I try I get 3 kinds of errors:
1st: “An error occurred while opening one or more files.

The system is low on memory. You may be able to reduce memory usage by closing other applications. “
2nd: “Vegas Pro has stopped working.” Screenshot(not mine, I randomly found a picture of the error): https://i54.tinypic.com/2vcxpna.jpg
3rd: “No compatible video codec was found.”

I rarely get the last one but whenever I have rendered over 50% I get the 2nd error and not the 1st.

I have tried a lot of different ways of rendering but I couldn’t actually export the video without having any errors.

The strangest thing is that I was able to render flawlessly in Vegas 1 year ago on the same PC and with the same rendering settings.

[John Pucci]

In Vegas, try turning off “waveforms and frames” ….and “thumbnails”.

It also may be a windows problem. How many processes do you have running. You may not realize that many of your windows resources are being exhausted. This often occurs when people use their editing computers for their main computer. Press Ctrl, Alt., Del and take a look. Look at the task bar. Download HiJack This! and do a “system scan”. It will give you a list. You may be able to get rid of a lot of unnecessary processes.

John

[Atanas Tsekov]

I did a system scan with Hijack This! and here’s the logfile: https://pastebin.com/nkz5aGkD

I managed to disable the “waveforms and frames” but I can’t find the option to disable “thumbnails”. I’m going to try to render now in .wmv because last time it got to about 60%.