Sony Vegas 10! Rendering issue.

[Nigel O’neill]

What is you source media, your project settings and your export (render template) settings?

90 minutes to render 5-8 minutes of video is very, very slow. You should be able to render that size of project in little over 10 minutes in most circumstances. Something in your work flow does not appear to be right.

Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Stephen Mann]

[i]The videos I’m trying to render are HD quality and are 5-8 minutes long. They take about an hour and a half to two hours to render, and when it reaches 100% the message pops up. [/i]

Without knowing the source media and the encoding parameters, we can’t comment on the time to render. If you have a lot of FX or accidentally dropped your event opacity to 99% then the encode time seems about right.

As far as the error – it’s coming from Windows, not Vegas. It’s saying that Windows can’t create the output file. Vegas uses the TEMP folder during the encode, then when it is finished (100%), it writes the final file to your destination drive. If you have only one hard disk drive then you need at least 2X the final project size.

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

[Leon Collins]

The project file is a .M2TS I recored gameplay with my Happauge HD PVR, and that is the default file type. Sony Vegas is one of the only programs that can work with a .M2TS file.

The project settings are

Frame size 1280 width, and 720 height
Frame rate 29.970 NTSC
Number of reference frames is 4
bps is 135,000,000
Profile = Main

The file I try to make is an AVC/AAC file.

If you need more information on the settings let me know.

Thank you so much for the help and for your quick response!

[Leon Collins]

[Stephen Mann] “As far as the error – it’s coming from Windows, not Vegas. It’s saying that Windows can’t create the output file. Vegas uses the TEMP folder during the encode, then when it is finished (100%), it writes the final file to your destination drive. If you have only one hard disk drive then you need at least 2X the final project size.”

Thank you for explaining to me what the “error” message meant. I am truly grateful. Do you have any suggestions on how I can approach to fixing this error?

Thank you for your help.

[Stephen Crye]

Hi;

It would not hurt to look at the Windows Event Viewer. Right click on Computer (or My computer depending on Windows version). Select Manage, then drill down into the Event Viewer and then the logs. Go through them and try to find anything associated with the error. I also like to look for increasing occurrences of errors – for example, was everything more or less ok until after a particular date?

Good luck,

Steve

[Stephen Mann]

It could be as simple as that you don’t have enough free disk space for the temp and final file.
It could also be that the output file is still open or locked from a previous, aborted encode.

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

[Simon Laidlaw]

Are you running the 64 bit version of Vegas 10? Is this a new problem?

As an experiment it might be worth trying to change your render settings. I run a high end 32bit machine with 32 bit Vegas and rarely have issues since ugrading from 9 to 10

http://www.cutmustard.tv

[Leon Collins]

I’m running the 32-bit verison of Vegas, and I’ve had this issue ever since I got the product; from day one.

I could try to change the render settings, but I don’t know very much about Vegas, and am unsure of what to change in order for it to work.