I’m desperate. Anyone willing to do a favor?

[Frank Stevn]

“Low on memory” means you need more RAM, no crazy fixes.

I will do the render for you. My email is fk.professional@gmail.com. Maybe you will need an FTP to upload the files. email me.

[Danny Hays]

You can also use Yahoo instant messenger to send large files peer to peer, no size limit. Just find each other on it, zip all the video files with the .veg and drag it on the yahoo instant messenger chat window, and the other will see a notice, (somone) is trying to send you a file, do you eccept? click yes and any size file can be sent.
Also Frank will need the same or newer version of Vegas to open your .veg file. What version are you using?

[James Green]

I was using Vegas 10 and I have all the videos and the .veg file saved on a flash drive. I just reformatted and installed Windows 7 64 bit with Vegas 11. It renders now without the Low Memory error. I rendered with the “Video for Windows (.avi)” codec and the NTSC DV template but through out the movie there was 1 clip where the video is black and you can only hear sound. I tried to render again with WMV 5 mbps HD 720 template and there is like 6 minutes of just black.

[Mike Kujbida]

Open two instances of Vegas, one new one (please save it under a different name) and one with your existing project.
Do a copy/paste of everything from your old project to the new one and try rendering it again.

[James Green]

By the way, the Christian Gonzalez post is me, but I made the post at a friends house. Mike I am going to try your solution right now. If I plan on burning this project to a DVD, what codec and render settings should I use?

[Mike Kujbida]

Standard def DVDs require an MPEG-2 stream for video and an AC-3 stream for audio.
Give both the same name and render them to the same folder.
That way, when you’re in DVD Architect and import the video file, the audio file will automatically follow.

For video, use the DVD Architect NTSC (or PAL) video stream or the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream if that’s what you shot in.

If the video is under 70 min. long, I go into the Custom menu and use a CBR (Constant Bit Rate) of 8,000,000.
Anything longer and I use the bitrate calculator found at https://www.johncline.com/bitcalc110.zip to determine optimum settings.

Check out my Am I getting the best possible image quality with my settings? post for some screenshots if you’re not familiar with this process.

As always, let us know if you need more help.
Good luck with the project.

[James Green]

Mike, when I rendered with the AVI codec, the video size came up to 2 GB. Should it come out a little smaller using the render settings you provided? Also, sorry I’m really new at this and I’m not sure what you mean. Do I render the vile 2 times? Once using the DVD Architect NTSC (or PAL) video stream or the DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video and another using the AC-3 stream for audio? Thanks for the help you guys. You have no idea how much I appreciate it.

edit: I forgot to mention that the video is only 15 minutes long.

[Mike Kujbida]

James, you can give DVD Architect an AVI file and it will work but it will have to convert it to the necessary formats which means more computer time.
For that reason, I prefer to give DVD Architect what it wants and that is two separate files, MPEG-2 for video and AC-3 for audio.
Since the video is only 15 min. long, go into Custom and set the CBR to8,000,000 as this will maximize your final quality.

[James Green]

Okay I will try that in a bit. I am currently rendering it again after copying and pasting the clips to a new project like you suggested. Do you know what may be causing me to get black video?

[Mike Kujbida]

I’ve heard a lot about the problem but, to the best of my knowledge, no one has a solution yet 🙁