Sony Vegas 11 keeps crashing

Phil Peacock
July 11, 2013 at 9:29 am

Bill, from issues that others have had and from my own experience, if your video card (i.e. GPU) is not up to the speed of your processor then turning OFF your GPU is the ONLY way to go, as you have discovered.

And in answer to the rest of your questions, once you have your computer back under your control you can render at whatever resolution you want, including HD. The processor, and the GPU if it is used, simply determine the ‘speed’ at which your computer completes that render.
Bill Smith
July 11, 2013 at 3:10 pm

Thanks so much!! Now, I’ve think I’ve got a few more questions..

I doubled checked and turns out my clips were filmed at 1080 resolution, however I know that Youtube compresses everything down to 720 @ 30 fps. Should I render the video at 1080 or 720? And why is that so?

Also, my clips are in mp4 format, I think I remember reading somewhere that this format caused some rendering problems.. is there anything I need to be on the lookout for?

Apologies for the barrage of questions.. Just trying to learn everything I can! 🙂
Phil Peacock
July 13, 2013 at 9:54 am

Bill, when rendering for YouTube, always render at your highest resolution, i.e. your capture HD resolution. YouTube is very efficient at handling these formats and will keep your video footage at the highest res it can.
I am no expert but I have uploaded both MP4 and mts/mt2s without any issues and both look great.

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