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Sony Vegas pro 11 Render Crash
I am trying to render a PAL DVD Widescreen in Pro 11 and it keeps crashing. There are 3 video streams. One is from my FX7, one is from my NX5U and the other is from my Nikon D90 (only 720 and *.avi format).
The problem has to do with the D90 footage as when I review the partly rendered video it is always crashing in a various D90 clip. I have deleted some of the not so critical clips. However, as it is a wedding I have done a lot of DOF shots via the D90 and I need to keep them.
I am thinking that maybe the avi format is the problem and perhaps I render them to another format and then re-insert them in the project. What is the best option here?
I have used the D90 before and had no problems. Just seems to be this project.
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7 Replies
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I’ve had the same issue with certain clips crashing renders. My solution was the same as your thoughts – render the problem clips into a more Vegas friendly codec and replace them in the show. You might try rendering the clips to XDCAM 422 codec – it looks great and Vegas really handles it well.
You can try one of the problem clips alone in a new Vegas project and see if it will render, I’ve had issues where Vegas could read the clip fine, but for whatever reason would not render in the original project.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
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Don’t know if this helps you but I was having problems rendering as well and finally found out that turning off the GPU in video preferences slowed down the render but at least it didn’t hang up and finally finished.
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You might want to consider Vegas Pro 11. Early versions of 10 (up to 10c I think) did not offer proper support for NXCAM footage, which was the source of all my grief.
My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
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Nigel,
I am actually running Pro 11. I upgraded from 10.
I tried rendering section to *.mpg and then re-importing them and slapping them on the timeline. I did not work. The preview screen kept playing up and I could not review the project.
I have started rendering small sections which I can then connect in DVDA. Not ideal and it makes skipping back and forward limited but no other option.
I turned the GPU off but again..kind of defeats the purpose of Pro 11. The NXCAM footage is not the problem. It is definitely the D90 avi footage.
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Rendering to .mpg is not ideal. You should pick Sony XDCAM. Try copy and pasting one of the D90 clips into a clean project and render that out to XDCAM 422. The reimport into cut.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
Joe,
I managed to just render it in pieces and put it together in DVDA. I thought I would give your suggestion a go and sure enough it rendered all 2h28m no problems. Seems the GPU acceleration was the problem which does make you question the benefit of Pro 11 over Pro 10.
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Yea, I just went with it since I had already put all that effort into my final project and when I downgraded and tried to open it in Vegas 10, it wouldn’t because it was an older version. So I figured that I have wait 3x slower than redo everything that took me 5 days to edit. Take care.
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