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Rendering Issues – Is my video footage too long?
Hello:
I just finished editing 3 DV tapes of footage using Sony Vegas; the footage totals 01:04:23:04 in length.
When rendering (NTSF DVD Architect wide screen; Default Audio & Dolby Stereo) the rendering “does not” stop (meaning it seemingly moves through the video render), but the last frame that is shown in the preview screen is at: 01:01:02:00, which is 3 minutes and 21 seconds short of my big finish/ending. It then moves on to the audio rendering, then it will finish the process. I go to DVD Architect and view what was rendered and it stopped on the 01:01:02:00 frame.
Do my footage need to be shorter than 1 hour?
I thought it could be 2 hours, same length as the 4.7 DVD?Without “re-editing” out some of my footage (if my footage is too long) what can be done to remedy this?
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I think the only limitation to the render length is the available space on your HD. I ahve rendered 3 hours of SD DV but I rendered to Main Concept Mpeg2 and AC3 so that I could burn it on a DL DVD. Worked fine
So you have 1:04:23 on the time line? Does the time line play all the way to the end? Are you rendering to MPeg2 DVDA compatable Main Concept? and a separate AC3 audio render? When you take that rendered Mpeg2 file and play it with a player on the PC does it play all the way through?
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…So you have 1:04:23 on the time line? Does the time line play all the way to the end? Are you rendering to MPeg2 DVDA compatable Main Concept? and a separate AC3 audio render? When you take that rendered Mpeg2 file and play it with a player on the PC does it play all the way through?…
Yes. I render to MPEG@ DVDA compatable Main Concept (via Sony Vegas, Batch Render. I haven’t burned the footage and played it on a player yet. After I rendered it, I went to DVDA, opened it on the preview timeline, and scrolled to the end (because the audio track was longer than the video track), and saw that the end (roughly 3 minutes) had been cut off. I tried it twice and got the same results.
But I think you might have something with the hard drive space. I think hard drives are designed to stop after there is a certain amount of space left. Maybe that’s what’s going on. Do you know roughly how much space one has to have available in order to render?
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So if you open the mPeg2 (that you rendered in Vegas) with WMP or Media PLayer Classic or whatever its missing the 3+- minutes at the end? That would indicate (as you have stated) that it did not get rendered. Is that last 3 minutes on a different track than the rest of the project? Could it have been muted? Did you have a region set up that included all but the last 3 minutes and done a “render region only”?
If it is on the time line and not dismissed muted etc it should render. Will it render to a new track?
Is that last 3 minute segment a different format than the rest of the program?
Sorry to ask so many questions. Just trying to figure this out. It doesn’t make sense. -
At last…
I took your advise and deleted some footage from my hard drive, freed up some space and presto… It worked. Thanks everyone. Great advise; many lessons learned.
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