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Render problems
G’day I have just created a project in Sony Vegas 11. When I go to render it, ie ‘render as’, I get a screen come up telling me Sony Vegas has stopped working. The project is made up of real time .mov files, .mov files with ‘slow motion’ effect added, stills taken from the .mov files, all changed from color to black and white, with other effects like brightness and contrast added and changed. I have cross faded many times through out the project to create that effect of one scene merging into another. Any suggestions as to why this is happening? Peter
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8 Replies
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First step to isolate the problem, turn off GPU support.
Steve Mann
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[Stephen Mann] “First step to isolate the problem, turn off GPU support.”
In particular, playback support which is under Options | Preferences | Video | GPU acceleration. Just set it to None and click OK and restart Vegas Pro. A Steve suggests, GPU support is a major cause of render problems so eliminate that first.
~jr
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John, in my opinion, GPU support should default off until the user knows the PC and Vegas are stable. Only then turn it on.
Steve Mann
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While that may make sense to you, it makes no business sense to introduce a major new feature and then disable it by default. Sony needs to get GPU acceleration working properly or produce a list of cards that they support and then make sure that those cards work properly.
~jr
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If it were that simple, I am sure they would, but the PC is so much a moving target, seemingly unrelated hardware or software that users add to their systems are what screws up the stability.
Yes, it may be a positive new feature, but in the marketing balance, don’t you think the “instability” complaints are a much bigger negative?
You may recall a few years ago when everyone was asking for GPU support (“because Premiere has it” was the main reason given), I warned then – be careful what you ask for; you may get it.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Steve, I couldn’t agree with you more about instability hurting them a lot. I was also one of the people who said, “be careful what you wish for” when people wanted GPU support so we’re in agreement. 😉
~jr
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G’day thanks to you both for taking the time to respond to my problem. I have done what you said, and turned off GPU acceleration etc. Now when i click on ‘render as’ that spiral thing the cursor turns into to tell you that the computer is doing some thing, keeps spinning, no matter how long i leave it. At least Sony Vegas doesn’t stop working now! What should i try next? Peter
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