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Vegas Crashing During Rendering – Noob Needs Help :-)
This is my first post here so allow me to say hi. Hi. 🙂
I’ve been using Vegas for awhile. I’m not expert at it but I can get around. Anyway, I recorded video on a Canon H20 in HD format. I uploaded it to Vegas, edited it down to 40 minutes and would like to render it in wmv format. I’ve done this several times in the past with no issues.
This time, every time it gets to the 90% complete mark, I get an error message that Vegas cannot cotinue and must close. I was initially rendering at 320×240 at 500Mbps. I tried rendering at 720×480 at 1.5Mbps. Same thing happened. I tried rendering 3 mins of the entire thing and that went thru fine. Since the issue is happening each time at the 90% mark of a 40 minute video, I rendered only the last 6 minutes thinking that would go over the 90% mark and if there were some error there, it would shot up. But it properly renderesd the last 6 minutes. I’ve tried re-booting my computer. Only thing left is to completely reload Vegas. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you in advance for your assistance with this matter.
Steve
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4 Replies
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What do you have going on at the 90% mark? Is there a transition there? An overlay? An effect?
What you could do is try to render out that portion (around the 90% mark) to avi and then insert that back into the project.
j razz
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I think he did say that he was “rendering” the last six-minutes fine, which should include the 90% mark.
Sounds to me like either running out of RAM memory. You should have as much as your MB will support, and NO LESS than 1Gb. OR the processor is overheating. Rendering and encoding are very processor intensive, so the processor will run hotter. If you have overclocked your computer, a render (or encode) will push the temps even higher.
The correct term is ‘encoding’, not rendering – notwithstanding that Sony puts the encodes in the “render-as” menu.
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(if present) Try disabling audio and test again.
Also try turning off audio/video plugins if used any.Have you installed or updated any codecs recently?
Since you say you have rendered it before with no issues;
I’d try croping the first 20 mins of the project, copy and paste it as 20+20 to make it 40 mins then render it 320×240 at 500Mbps to test if its an issue about the project lenght.Some badly coded plugins may be the cause.
Simple Delay audio plugin used to cause a problem like this.
It rendered ok when used with partial renders or used at the end of the project, but hang the system when used early in the project or when you rendered the whole project. -
Since you guys were kind enough to reply, thought I’d let you know what I did.
The issue was NOT at a transition point. It was smack dab in the middle of a 2 min area of video. I really have no idea specifically what the problem was but I went thru the video, en-coding certain parts, until I found the exact spot of the foul. In the video was some sort of “crinkle”….not really sure what to call it…but it looked like it just got disturbed at that point while it was being captured from the tape. It was literally a 1 second crackle. It was in a position where I was simply able to cut that part out, transition the split and all was well.
Again, thank you for your answers. I see this forum is going to be invaluable to me. Perhaps one day I’ll know enough to help some other poor noob out.
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