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Sony Vegas Pro 9 Rendering Problem
Hi, I recently made a video on sony vegas pro 9. When i try to render the video, the approximate time of completion continues to increase to the extremes (e.g. 17 hours or so) and the percent bar remains stuck at 0%. Even after waiting for about 40 minutes, the bar hasn’t moved.
I’ve tried lowering the video quality and size, but it doesn’t seem to be working. If I just want the video to render with no regard to quality, what’s the lowest quality video setting I could use?My video is a bit on the lengthy side (about 8 minutes long), includes lots of editing (subtitles, music, transitions, video fx., etc.) I’m not sure if that contributes to the slowness or if it’s just my computer. I’ve made videos on sony vegas 7 and 8 before that were about the same length without the same problem. Also, when i try to render a much smaller file on vegas 9, it works.
Any help? please?
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The three things that affect rendering time are the FX that you apply, the compositing of tracks, and the format that you are rendering to. If you applied several CPU heavy FX it could take minutes to render a frame and at 30fps that could mean 30 minutes for each second of video! Likewise for a lot of compositing and transparency/opacity because each frame needs a lot of processing.
Also what format are you rendering to? WMV takes forever even when no FX are applied. Some formats like MPEG2 are multi-threaded and render a lot faster on a multi-CPU PC.
Oh… and the speed of your PC and number of CPU’s is a big factor as well since rendering is primarily CPU bound.
~jr
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Thanks for responding!
Well, i tried rendering in avi, wmv, and mpg and none of them seem to be working. I’ve also changed some of the custom template settings to lower qualities and lower frame sizes.I know applying lots of FX, music, etc. can cause rendering to be extremely slow, but I find it weird that there isn’t even an approximate time of completion, nor is there any progress in the project completion whatsoever. If the bar just went to 1% or something, I’d feel better knowing that at least something is going on, rather than me leaving it on all day at 0% wondering if i’m just wasting my time.
Has this problem ever happened before?
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Make sure the render file is set to the right hard drive path. Strange things do happen. Good luck!
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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I’m having the same problem. I’ve tried selectively rerendering too, in five second clips at the smallest, and it will just load part of it and stop working. And it doesn’t happen due to the FX, just all my videos won’t render. I’ve tried switching the file type to MPEG, MPEG4, AVI, and a few others. And I’ve tried switching the video quality on all the clips.
How exactly do you know which hard drive the video is rendering to anyways? I’ve been looking around and trying to find a way to switch it but can’t find one.
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[caroline mcdonald] “How exactly do you know which hard drive the video is rendering to anyways? I’ve been looking around and trying to find a way to switch it but can’t find one.”
When you go to render a clip/project, click in the very top of the box that comes up.
It will tell you the location that the file will be rendered to.
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Hello,
I have the exact same problem as Jason Tan.
Jason what have done to fix this?
Please tell me because I think it will work for me too.Thank you very much
Robert.
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Well, i noticed that my project had about 37 different tracks, and one of my tracks had a problem. i troubleshooted by trying to render with different tracks selected.
for me, when i muted a video and used an audio track in it’s place, i deleted the audio track of that video and it ended up working for me -
I had this problem recently rendering out a 4 minute photo montage with audio in Vegas Pro 8a. Turns out one of my media assets (a m2t file) was corrupted. I discovered this accidentally when I loaded the project on my second machine (which coincidentally did not include the problem asset). When I did a render without it, I got past 0% and concluded that the asset (even though it was not on the timeline anymore) had somehow been preventing the render process. When I put it back in, the problem returned. I ended up removing it from the Project Media bin as it was not actually required and the render out was OK to 100%.
Hope this helps.
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If You’re Importing the files right from an SD Card or a camera, move those files to a folder on your desktop and re edit the scene. This Worked for me
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Yes, I always copy the recorded files from the card to my Media Raid drive. Fortunately, the Vegas Pro 9.0a update released today by Sony did the trick! Thanks for your reply.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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