MOV is missing

[Steve Rhoden]

Its suppose to be there. ok, just reinstall Vegas 12 and
you should be ok. Remember too that the new render settings
in Vegas 12 differs a lot compared to that of Vegas 10 and
earlier versions.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956

[John Rofrano]

[evan marlowe] “I bought a new laptop (windows 8) and installed 10. That has Quicktime MOV listed in the render options. I then installed 12.486. The MOV option isn’t there anymore.”

Unlike Vegas Pro 8.0 (which doesn’t support Windows 8) Vegas Pro 12.0 will not show the QuickTime render option in Windows 8 until you actually install QuickTime from Apple. Make sure that you download and install QuickTime in Windows 8.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Evan Marlowe]

Thanks that resolved it. Still have my usual inability to render issues but I’ll keep plugging away at those.

[Evan Marlowe]

I worked with it and still have the same render problem. I just upgraded to a new, faster and much more expensive laptop thinking it was a RAM or speed issue, but Vegas still crashes with each render.
I’m rendering out to the avid codec. Last night it simply froze at 15% without an error message. Same thing this morning. Any explanation?

[Stephen Mann]

How much RAM and free hard disk do you have?
Have you tried turning off GPU support (both places)?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Evan Marlowe]

It’s a sufficient system. 8GM ram, 500GB drive. Just took it out of the box so brand new. Where can I find the GPU settings? I didn’t have GPU on my last PC so it wasn’t an issue.
I’ve been working with Vegas for about 3 years and it has performed well except with rendering, where it consistently crashes on large films. My feature middle of last year it kept crashing right up until the day before my screening when I figured out I could get a wmv video file, then couple it with the wav in my authoring program. Otherwise, any attempt to render video and audio together failed, regardless of the format. I got the generic “vegas stopped working” or whatever it is, without a specific error message. I still get that on this new system, but now it also will sometimes get a small way through and then freeze. I’m trying to render small chunks to see if it can handle a few minutes at a time.
But I have two sales contracts in hand for my films and NEED vegas to render them out properly in a high res MOV flattened with audio, or I will have to pass on getting worldwide distribution.
If all else fails, I have Avid, and maybe vegas can export the data into a form that I can import into avid.

[Stephen Mann]

Last question first, download the free Avid DNxHD codec and you can freely exchange media between Avid and Vegas.

Disk space may not be the problem unless you have divided it into partitions. Generally you should have at least 2X free space in your TMP folder as your final render will consume. So if you are encoding a 200Mb file, then your TMP folder should have 400Mb free.

The next time you get the Windows error that Vegas has stopped working (this is Windows 7’s version of the BSOD), before you close the program, go to “Run” and enter resmon. In Resource Monitor in the Overview tab, look for “Vegas120”. Right click on Vegas120 and select “Analyze Wait Chain”. This will tell you if it’s a Windows process that is stopping you.

You can turn off GPU support in Options/Preferences in the Video tab. If your codec works with GPU support (such as AVCHD), then you can select GPU or not in “Customize Template” and in the Video tab, look for “Encode Mode”.

I believe that the GPU support in the Options/Preferences is for preview, and the “Render As” template GPU selection is specific to the encoder in use. Personally, I think that GPU support should *NOT* be turned on until you are confident that everything else in Vegas is working to your satisfaction.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Evan Marlowe]

Thanks for the info. At this point it seems to be getting caught up only on the CGI shots where I’m doing key frame or green screen. I can render those shots out on the old PC and import them to fix this, but can’t I resolve it in the new system? Will the above solve this?

[Evan Marlowe]

Btw when I run analyze wait chain it says Vegas is running correctly and nothing appears in the window.

Also if I render the portion where the cgi is I get the Vegas isn’t working error. But if I render the entire film from the beginning it goes smoothly. Good stuff.

[Dave Osbun]

Even though you have a new computer, that doesn’t mean that it’s operating at peak efficiency. Many new computers (Dell, HP, etc.) have bloatware installed, and many of these programs will load when the computer boots up, using up system resources. I’ve been preaching to people for the past 12 years to turn these off on startup (the programs will still run fine when you launch them).

What you’ll want to do is type ‘msconfig’ in your Run box, then click the ‘Startup’ tab. You will want to uncheck EVERYTHING except your anti-virus software. Then reboot.

If you had many items with checkmarks, you should easily see an improvement in system performance. Now see if your render works.

Dave