So that’s it?

[Steve Rhoden]

Obviously you have something installed that is
causing a conflict with Vegas and its processing.
Hard to say what it could be from my perspective.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Philippe Orlando]

No, there is nothing installed. It’s a machine just for editing. Anti virus is out, nothing is running except Vegas with a Q 6770 on a ASUS P5W De Luxe a 500 Gig hard drive 3/4 empty and three LACIE external drive connected to it from where the footage is.

Now could this be that the footage that’s being rendered is coming via firewire from those external lacie drives?

[Steve Rhoden]

Seems then that something about the footage you have
on the timeline to be the culprit.
If you can, try uninstall, cleanup and then reinstall
Cineform NeoHDV.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Michael Hurwicz]

I access footage on external G-Tech FW 800 drives all the time, using Vegas 8, with no crashes. So I wouldn’t think FireWire by itself would be the problem.

[Adam Rose esq.]

well, simple test: transfer the footage from lacie drive to local drive, disconnect all external drives, Vegas will ask you to point to new location, and can rerun render.

that at least will get the FW out of the equation.

2nd: good PSU?

3rd: good RAM? try removing all except one stick, make sure is seated properly, then rerun render. Try the other sticks with same logic.

4th: have any nested projects? remove and try render

5th: create new timeline, drop some of the NEO footage thereon, and try new render – just to see if any clips causing particular problems.

6th: try render using footage from someone else’s external drives, just to get your Neo stuff out of the equation.

Is simple process of elimination. Am guessing it’s either codec or hardware related – not windows itself.

[Mike Mihalik]

I am using Vegas 9 (have also used 8) on a Q6600 running Vista Premium and Ultimate.

Also using with LaCie drives.

I’ve had no problem rendering several projects, each about 1 hour in length.

I have rendered captured HDV on the timeline, as well as QT/MP4 projects created on a Mac using Final Cut Express and iMovie 9.

Rendered projects have been used to make DVDs and Blu-ray discs, as well as clips that have been uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube.

INternal drive is stock SATA drive. External drives are several LaCie drives. I’ve used USB2, FW400, FW800, and eSATA at various times without issues.

Several things to check:
– does the timeline play completely without issue?
– check your RAM
– make sure your FireWire interface is OHCI. There can be issues with non-OHCI chipsets.
– if using XP, and have 2GB or more of RAM, disable your virtual/paging memory. With Vista, default settings for paging memory are OK.

Sorry, I don’t have Vegas 7 to test for you, but it is several versions old.

Since you rolled your own computer, you may want to be sure you have all the current motherboard drivers.

Mike
LaCie

Mike
LaCie

[Philippe Orlando]

I really appreciate all the input I got here.
Thanks a lot. I’m going to try all the options mentioned in the tread and tell you happens.
By the way, update drivers for what? there’s no hardware connected to the computer? drivers for the Lacie drives?
Thanks a lot
Phil

[Mike Mihalik]

Drivers for your motherboard.

With build-your-own computers (I think that is what you have done), many times the drivers bundled with the motherboard are rather old. Check with the manufacturer of your motherboard to be sure they are up-to-date.

Neither Vista nor XP automatic updates will know about motherboard specifics.

Many I/O errors are due to faulty motherboard drivers.

Mike

Mike
LaCie

[Stephen Mann]

You would be surprised how many drivers are loaded on your PC – even the most bare-bones ones.

I use Driver Detective to keep my drivers up to date. On my day-to-day PC (not my editing PC) I have 94 drivers. 32 of them are system drivers and the rest are hardware drivers.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Larry Brewer]

I haven’t used Vegas 7 in a couple of years and never with HDV. Why not try a Vegas 9 trial download, it won’t cost anything, and installs side by side with Vegas 7. (it doesn’t overwrite older installs) Vegas is a really fine edit system overall. Trying the latest version would only be fair before you give up.