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Sony Vegas 9.0e render problems galore!
I’ve got two problems I keep running into with Vegas 9.0e 64 bit.
(I’m running a core i7 920 with 6GB memory and Windows 7 pro)
1) I cannot render ANY quicktime files. No matter what settings I use and codec (animation, photojpeg, etc) Vegas just won’t render. I’ll click save and IMMEDIATELY the progress bar will show 100% with no file saved. I’ll tried uninstalling quicktime and vegas with no luck. I also tried an older version of quicktime (7.6.0) and that didn’t help either.
2) Vegas won’t render uncompressed AVIs all the way for me. I’ll click save and it’ll start rendering, but it will quit as soon as the file reaches 2GB and give me an error “the file being rendered has exceeded the maximum size allowed for the selected format.” I’ve tried numerous times and tried different hard drives which are all NTFS formatted so I’m lost on this one as well. I read something about unchecked the “strictly conform to avi2 specifications” but I could not find this is the preferences.
Any ideas? Has anyone experienced this and solved the issue?
Thanks
-James
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3 Replies
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Try this version of Quicktime after uninstalling the one your using now.
https://www.filehippo.com/download_quicktime_alternative/
Let us know if this works for you. It works for me with W7 64 i7 930 6 gig ram all NTSF drives as well. -
Don’t know what’s wrong with your Quicktime setup. I have regular Quicktime from Apple (eg, the free playback version), Vegas installed, and the Avid DNxHD CODEC installed, and I have no trouble rendering DNxHD under Quicktime. I haven’t tried any other Quicktime rendering recently. Could well be that the CODEC you’re trying to render is “read-only” under the free version of Quicktime. Do you have Quicktime Pro? You might need that for certain kinds of output under Quicktime.
As for uncompressed, that 2GB limit isn’t a FAT32 limit anyway… it sounds very much like an AVI limit. Under the old Video for Windows API from Microsoft, from back in the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 days, there’s a limit, which works out to either 1GB or 2GB depending on just how old it is.
The solution to this is a thing called OpenDML, which uses the RIFF structure to allow multiple 2GB chunks to be stacked in an AVI file. This is also known these days as AVI 2.0. If you render to a “Video for Windows” CODEC (which might be VfW or might actually be DirectShow… the details are kind of hidden), you ought to check the “Create an OpenDML (AVI version 2.0) compatible file” box (this is in the “Custom” menu, not on the file dialog), or you might hit that 2GB limit.
I haven’t used Uncompressed in ages, but have created gigantic files (100GB+) using various other AVI CODECs (Cineform, SonyYUV, ffdshow), so the mechanism is definitely still intact.
-Dave
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Thanks for the replies.
Dave, thanks for the input on the AVI issue. I realized I had not checked that box and now it works. Thanks!
As far as the quicktime issue, I’ve been able to render those codecs (photojpeg and animation) just fine on other systems with the same free version of quicktime. In fact, I can render those in After Effects without problems on the same system. It’s just Vegas that has problems with it.
I’m going to try that alternate quicktime version posted and I’ll report back with the results.
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