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Still can’t render in avi.
I’m nearing my wits end with this. I’ve been trying to render this video to make a DVD. For the past few weeks, I’ve attempted around 10 times to render it but every time I try, the rendering progress always stops at certain frames while the clocks continue ticking. It usually stops at frame #108,178. Sometimes it’s been frame #74,141…
So this time I installed Vegas on my new Mac (using Bootcamp with a complete fresh install of Windows XP SP2).
And again…it stops, this time at frame #79,876. I know these frame numbers maybe don’t mean anything to you guys but the stopping seems to happen EITHER when the render hits a title graphics card in the preview screen or just before a fade to a title graphic. And my title graphics are just simple psd files created in Photoshop elements.
I’m wondering if the title graphics need their own timeline track, because they share the same track as the video shots of me.
I’ve optimized my Vegas so that the temp render file and the video capture file is set up in the external E: drive which has loads of free space. But still, no success.
Again, this always happens when I try to render to avi. I just want Vegas to complete the avi render, but it can’t do it. Should I just try to render to Mpeg-2? Will that make a difference?
Robin
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What you are experiencing is not normal….Therefore
a video file you have in the timeline is causing vegas
to hang during rendering….or something installed on
your system is causing a conflict with vegas renders…
hard to say what.Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.
sample bits at
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I’ve seen all sorts of problems with Vegas when it needs to call out to Quicktime or other Adobe product to handle one of their file types. I would swap the PSD file for a PNG file and see if it fixes the problem.
~jr
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John,
I changed the titles to png files and it seems to render fine but the rendering will still hang at a certain frame. In terms of minutes and seconds, it stops barely after an hour of the timeline is rendered (1hr & 15 seconds) with 10 minutes remaining that it has yet to render completely. (Incidentally, the video shots of me and of my computer screen are mov. files)
I wonder if you know of any hidden default rendering limit that’s set in Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum that I can change. If not, I’ll have to render this thing in two parts and combine them somehow in Sony DVD Architect with the chapter markers intact. But any help is appreciated. Thanks
Robin
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No limit that I know of.
Try rendering 1/2 at a time to DV AVI and then place the two AVI files into a new project and render the whole thing as MPEG-2. There should be no appreciable loss in quality as the Sony DV codec maintains even after several renders.
~jr
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I’m kinda new at Vegas so is there a way to easily select half of it only to render? Or do I just drag the mouse? Thanks
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Zooming all the way out and dragging the mouse to make a timeline selection is the easiest way. Then just render the selection. You can quickly zoom out by double-clicking the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the timeline. Personally I would drop a marker half way through the timeline so you know exactly where to start for the second render.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Ok, I’ll try that. Thanks for your help. Also good to see there are Gentle Giant fans out there besides myself…
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