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Sony Vegas Rendering Issue!!!
I finally finished this video I’ve been working on for months. I have been continuously attempting to render it, but Sony Vegas keeps freezing. My profressor gave me an external hard drive to use but before I ever got the chance to use it I decided to see if I could render it one last time but rendering the whole video to another track and then rendering that… It froze again. I tried to open the video in class, but now, for some reason, I can no longer open it in the program. It will not let me drag it into the program, or open it from the file menu. It’s really frustrating. It also says the the media files are offline, but I don’t know why that would affect it because I’ve downloaded all of the media clips I’m using onto my computer. There is another unsual message that appears where the specs. for the audio and video aspects of the file should be. But I can’t read the message completely it says something like “Cannot open” something something. I will edit this post later if I can read it clearly.
Any help is VERY appreciated because I am so proud of this video and if its unretrieveable, I think I will die!!! -
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Look in your project folder for a xxx.veg.bak file (or xxx.vf.bak if you use Studio).
The backup may have saved your tail as it sounds like your .veg file is corrupted.
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Whoo hoo!!! Thank you so much.
I saved it immediately. In two different places. Lol.
However, I do have another issue.
Everytime I try to render it, it either freezes or gives me this error message “A problem occured while trying to render ________ – The reason for the error could not be determined.”Any ideas?
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Are you using any really large (2,000 x 2,000 pixels or larger) images?
If yes, what format are they?
If they’re very large, shrink them down to no more than 2X project size (i.e. 1440 x 960 for NTSC).
If they’re in TIF format, change them to PNG.
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Sorry if I sound like a total idiot, but, I have no idea what your asking me. Like the size of clips and whatnot. Lol.
Is there a way for me to check it in the program?
I downloaded my clips from brooke-lucas.org
Most of the clips were in formats that had to be extracted to be placed into V7. I think it was WMV, although I’m not positive. -
Chelsea, I looked at the site you mentioned and the clips seem to be OK (yes, they are WMV format) for Vegas.
What I’m really asking about are images (especially if they come from a digital still camera) and if you use any really large ones in your project.
If you switch to Detail mode in the Vegas media pool, it should tell you what format all your files are and what the image size is.
Let us know if there are any really large ones (like I mentioned above) and what format (JPG, etc.) they are. -
Thank you very much for your diligence and actually checking the site. 🙂
I’m actually not using any sort of images in my project. All of the pieces of media in my video are video clips. I do not have any stills, or anything.
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Does it freeze at the same point every time?
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No. It freezes randomly. Sometimes, it freezes and then produces an error message and sometimes it doesn’t freeze at all. When it doesn’t freeze, it says that an unknown error has occured.
I am just completely confused.Thank you very much for your continued attempts to help, though.
They are greatly appreciated. 🙂 -
Have you tried rendering it on another computer?
Copy all your files onto the external hard drive your professor offered and try rendering it on a different machine.
I work in an educational environment and know only too well that school computers can be somewhat temperamental, to say the least. -
The computer its on is actually my personal laptop, which is windows. And the only other computer that I have available is my boyfriends iMAC. Can I transfer it to that? Or would it not work if I transferred from a Windows to an Apple/Mac? The iMac also doesn’t have Sony Vegas. My boyfriends computer and my school computers only work with Final Cut.
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