Unable to render fully, or print to dv device..

[Donatello]

the 18 min ? that seems like your hard drive is formatted FAT 32 which has a 4gig max file… mpeg 2 files are smaller

the manual control PRINT to tape ..
if you don’t have allot of color correction and other effects you could print from TL (tools – print to DV tape- you can then set how many seconds of color bars , black etc) .. if it tells you to use manual controls – you have your camera in VCR mode .. Vegas will give you a visual 10-0 count down – somewhere around ? 6 ? 5? ( depends on how long you think it takes for your camera to go into record mode or if you added 5-10 seconds of black you can wait till zero ) you put camera into record mode ( click record/play ? depends on camera) ..BUT 1st Vegas must render the sections of your project that has transitions, effects etc = could take 5 , 10, 20 min ?? … once finished rendering it will start the count down …

[E. Lopez]

hello donatello,

thanks so much for your help… problem solved… and i made the dead-line.

regards, e. lopez

[Stephen Mann]

So, what was the problem?

[E. Lopez]

hello,

what donatello explained to me gave me a broader understanding of the functions (also helped me with the 18 minute problem) and ultimately led me to check the tape… the tape had the save tab enabled, which is why i was not able to record. as soon as i switched it to record, i was able to print to tape.

i appreciate all the help…

thanks, e. lopez