Rendering in Sony Vegas Pro 11

[Angelo Mike]

I’ve had Vegas 11 do this a few times. It’s one of the many reasons I haven’t totally switched over to 11. For me, the problem was usually solved by either closing Vegas and opening it again, or restarting my computer.

What are you trying to render to? If you can reinstall Vegas 10, I recommend just finishing the project in there.

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[John Rofrano]

[Charity Meinhart] “Problem is… NONE of the settings I try in 11 work.”

It would help if you told us what settings you have tried.

[Charity Meinhart] “I’m attaching a screen shot of the settings they prefer to receive…”

I don’t see a screen shot but that would probably help a lot. 😉

~jr

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[Charity Meinhart]

I have tried:
.avi- file was trying to get to 26 gigs!
.mpeg- file has no audio
.mov- file pauses and doesn’t render properly- one render had no audio

Everywhere I go, there I am.

[John Rofrano]

Hi Charity, According to that spec, they prefer an MPEG-2 Transport Stream. What you need to do is use the following:

1. Select File | Render As…
2. Select MainConcept MPEG-2 as the Save as type
3. Select Blu-ray 1920×1080-60i, 25 Mbps video stream as the Template
4. Press the Custom… button
5. On the Video tab, set the Video quality to 31 (High)
6. Select Constant bit rate (bps)
7. Change the Constant bit rate (bps) to 45,000,000
8. On the Audio tab Check [x] Include audio stream
9. On the System tab Uncheck [_] Save as separate elementary streams
10. Give the template a meaningful name (like HD for Comcast Broadcast) and Save it

Then use this saved template to render your file and submit it. This should create the MPEG-2 transport stream they are looking for.

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Also they didn’t say anything about audio levels. Usually you need an average loudness of -24dBFS +/- 2dB with peaks not to exceed -10dBFS. Are you sure that your audio is acceptable? (because Vegas doesn’t have a loudness meter to check). I assume you’ve color corrected to ensure all of your colors and luminance are within broadcast safe limits? (just asking to be sure… if you’ve done this before then feel free to ignore) 😉

~jr

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[Charity Meinhart]

Whoa! Once again, thank you SO MUCH, John! I’m saving these settings for the future… very helpful! ~Charity

Everywhere I go, there I am.

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome. Let me know if the file gets accepted with this format so that others will know it’s good for use with Comcast submissions.

~jr

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[Charity Meinhart]

Sorry it took me so long to reply… your settings worked perfectly, thanks!

Everywhere I go, there I am.

[John Rofrano]

[Charity Meinhart] “your settings worked perfectly, thanks!”

Thank for getting back to us. Now we know what to use for Comcast Broadcast submissions. 😉

~jr

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[Toby Gentil]

Can someone please help me? I am trying to Render something in Sony Vegas Pro 11. This is the Problem:

Problem Description
Application Name: Vegas Pro
Application Version: Version 11.0 (Build 510)
Problem: Unmanaged Exception (0xc0000005)
Fault Module: C:Windowssystem32atioglxx.dll
Fault Address: 0x0F2A808A
Fault Offset: 0x00B5808A

Fault Process Details
Process Path: C:Program Files (x86)SonyVegas Pro 11.0vegas110.exe
Process Version: Version 11.0 (Build 510)
Process Description: Vegas Pro

If ANYONE could help, it would be amazing! Thank you so much if you can.

(It Crashes 1/2 way through rendering.)

[John Rofrano]

[Toby Gentil] “Fault Module: C:Windowssystem32atioglxx.dll”

It looks like the fault is in a file called “atioglxx.dll”. If you have an ATI graphics card, I’d say it’s perhaps a problem with your graphics card driver. Update your drivers to the latest level to see if this fixes it. If not, you might want to disable GPU acceleration while rendering in Vegas Pro 11.

~jr

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