Platinum HD 10.0 : Low memory error

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

if you only have 2GB of RAM, what system specs are you running?
That’s low for any HD format.
Set your Dynamic RAM to 0 and be sure any antivirus is disabled completely.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Frederic Baumann]

The specs of Video Movie Studio Platinum HD say “1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended for HD)”, so I would say I am ok with them.

I unfortunately already tried the 2 things you suggest, and it has no effect. I also tried various other recommendations read on the forum, but I still cannot render my 3-minute HD videos 🙁

If you see anthing else that could be done, please advise!!
Thanks in advance,
Frederic

[John Rofrano]

What is the source of your HD video? What codec does it use? There are lots of variants of H.264 that cause problems. If this is one of them, you might try converting to another format and see if that renders correctly.

~jr

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[Frederic Baumann]

The source of my video is a Canon 7D, doing .MOV in 1920×1080 / 25 fps.

How can I see the codec it uses ?
Please tell me if you know, so that I can answer.

And if you can suggest me a format to convert to, please advise too.

btw, surprisingly enough, this morning I managed to render a 3-minute movie (made of about 15 cuts from my 7D). The way I did it is to create the .vf Project under Vegas Movie Studio 9. Then I opened it on Vegas Movie Studio Platinum HD 10.0, and it rendered without any crash nor error. Not sure at all this could be a repeatable way of fixing my problems though…

Thanks in advance for your answer!!
Frederic

[Frederic Baumann]

Just in case it may help…
Today was a great day : I managed to render 2 times a 2/3-minute video without a crash nor errors.

Non-exhaustive list of what I did:

– yesterday I used CFF explorer to unflag the 2GB limit of the Vegas EXE file (as mentioned in the Vegas forum on the Sony site by some users). Yesterday it did not change anything, but this morning I rebooted my PC, maybe then the new setting has been taken into account??

– the project files I have successfully rendered have been created with Vegas Movie Studio v9.0. I then launched Vegas Movie Studio Platinum HD 10.0 to do the HD rendering, by opening this v9.0 project. I could even make some changes under 10.0, but did not save the .vf file from 10.0.

I have absolutely no clue if these things are THE things to do to perform a rendering successfully, as I have tried so many other things yesterday and the days before. In case it raises some ideas in your minds, showing you where the problems come from, please advice, once again 🙂

Frederic

[John Rofrano]

The source of my video is a Canon 7D, doing .MOV in 1920×1080 / 25 fps.

Canon 7D files have bene known to cause problems with Vegas.

How can I see the codec it uses ?

Right-click on the event and select Properties. The go to the Media tab and look at the Video format.

And if you can suggest me a format to convert to, please advise too.

The recommended workflow for Canon 5D/7D shooters is to purchase Cineform Neo Scene ($99 USD at videoguys.com) and covert all of your footage to the Cineform codec. Editing and rendering will be smooth and painless after that.

~jr

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[Frederic Baumann]

Hi John,

Thanks a lot for your answer, which seems to have a huge value to fix my issues!! (btw, yesterday evening, after saying that I could render videos again, I had several crashes and error).

I will have a look at this extra tool.

I read on the forum that you were a Vegas expert, I must say that the more I read you, the more I trust this statement!! 🙂

Thanks again,
Frederic

[John Rofrano]

Thank for the kind words. I do what I can to give back to the community and help those who are starting out. I remember the gurus helping me when I first started and now I guess it’s my turn to give back… don’t forget when it’s your turn! 😉

~jr

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[Frederic Baumann]

I have made a test with Cineform, and guess what it does fix my problem: I could render a 7 minute video made of 40 .MOV files without any problem. Memory consumption was very low (about 1.5 GB of swap file)
And also, processing seems to be much much faster than when using .MOV files directly within Vegas.

So my overall workflow is as follows:

– get the .MOV files from my 7D (1920x1080x25fps)
– convert them to .AVI files with Cineform Neoscene
– place the .AVI files from within Vegas Movie Studio Platinum HD in a .VF project, and edit the project.
– render the project to an .M2T output
– convert the .M2T to a .Divx with DivX Converter (720p format)
– play the DivX on my Freebox (a popular French ADSL box)
– enjoy the HD !

Thanks again John,
Frédéric

N.B. I now have to fix another problem: on another PC, the installation of Vegas Platinum 10.0 simply fails. I get a “1621” error due to the Visual C++ Redistributable which fails to install. I followed the full re-install procedure described on the sony knowledge base, but it does not help. To be followed in another post… 🙂

[John Rofrano]

– render the project to an .M2T output
– convert the .M2T to a .Divx with DivX Converter (720p format)

These are unneeded steps. Why don’t you render to DivX directly from Movie Studio? You are loosing quality by going to M2T and then DivX. Just make a DivX template for the AVI file type and render once out of Movie Studio directly to DivX.

~jr

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