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rendering with Vegas Pro 8.0c
I’ve rendered several videos in Sony Vegas Pro 8.0c before, never had an issue. Now, I’m creating a compilation DVD for a film festival that consists of 20 different film submissions. The 20 films are split into 2 95 minute disks. This is where my personal hell seems to begin.
A. At first it took 20 hours to attempt to render. I say attempt because, after watching the last 45 seconds tick away in anticipation, when it was complete it displayed a message that said an unknown error occurred and that the render failed.
– I had two solutions.
1. Get a new computer. A quad processor system cut the rendering time in half. Awesome.
Until it failed to render again.
B. I started a new project in Vegas and imported the original compilation Vegas project as media. Vegas seemed to render the video and again spit out an error message. The result was that there was no audio.
– That was no problem because I just rendered the audio and it went fine.
– Then I deleted the empty audio track and attempted to render the newly pre-rendered video. The process went from 11 to 18 hours. And then failed again.I don’t know what else to try.
Any suggestions anybody?
These 2 dvds need to be complete within a week and when I’m waiting a day at a time to find out that it isn’t working, I’m getting a little stressed.
Please help.
Owen
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4 Replies
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I assume the film submissions are on DVD in MPEG-2 format? Why are you using Vegas at all? Why not just use DVD Architect to place these films on DVD and have them play in a sequence? I’m sure the submitters will greatly appreciate that you do not re-render them and loose quality that they worked so hard to achieve. 😉
~jr
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It’s not that easy.
Some of the submissions are full budget studio films. All films, amateur and professional, were copied using MagicDVDRipper and converted to an AVI file for Vegas to use. There are also Vegas generated media and transitions that can’t just be dropped into DVD Architect.
Since my last post, I went through and took 5 second clips from each piece of media, then rendered them individually and opened them in architect. I got rid of the Vegas pre-rendered clips just to clean things up and copied entire movies from original Vegas projects. Everything opened in Architect and played just fine. I’m now rendering a “clean” project.
My question now is, since every clip rendered and opened in DVD Architect, shouldn’t they all render together on one large Vegas project?
Thank you for your first response. In a perfect world, your solution would be ideal. One other thing is that the 20 films are not complete versions on the disks I’m making. They have been approved by the filmmakers to be cut down. This is more or less a highlight reel of the whole festival.
Owen
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> All films, amateur and professional, were copied using MagicDVDRipper and converted to an AVI file for Vegas to use.
What codec did you use to make the AVI files? MagicDVDRipper loves to use DivX as AVI and Vegas doesn’t support DivX so rendering is very hit and miss. If you converted them to DivX AVI this could be why they won’t render all together.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thanks again.
I’m just going to render what I need to, stuff that won’t just drop into Architect, and put it together the way you described. The videos I don’t need to edit or cut down, go straight in as you said. I’ll build it piece by piece in Architect. Thanks for the suggestions. It may seem to take longer, but it will save me time long term.
Owen
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