Vegas Pro 11 – Will Not Render

[Eric Brinkerink]

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I came to the same conclusion and got rid of it. I absolutely dislike codec packs for the reason you mention and always try to avoid installing unnecessary ‘junk’ programs.

The only reason for installing it was that some people sent me source files for a project which I couldn’t open without it.

BTW: it was this project: Second International V-Drummers Collaboration

[Vaughan Mitchell]

Still can’t render.
Have checked that I have no DivX – so now I would like to eliminate any other possibly nasty codecs.
How do I know what to look for?
Vaughan

[John Rofrano]

[Vaughan Mitchell] “so now I would like to eliminate any other possibly nasty codecs. How do I know what to look for?”

If you right-click on a video event, open the Properties and go to the Media tab, there will be a field called Format. Make a list of all the different formats you find and post them here and maybe we’ll see something that isn’t quite right.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Vaughan Mitchell]

Thank you John,
I have found:
WMV1
WMV3
WVC1
HFYU
H264
I have analysed everything in the Windows Video library – I can’t yet guarantee that there aren’t any odd bits of video hiding where they ought not to be.
Hope this helps,
Vaughan

[John Rofrano]

[Vaughan Mitchell] “I have found: WMV1, WMV3, WVC1, HFYU, H264”

WOW! That’s a lot of different types of media including Windows Media Video, Windows VC1, Huffyuv, and AVC/H.264.

I hate to send you on a “wild goose chase” because it could just turn out to be a bug in Vegas but I know that Vegas doesn’t work too well with WMV files. WMV is a delivery format and not and editing format. I really don’t know what to tell you. You might try redendering small sections that only have one type of video file (if there are any) and see if some render and some don’t. Then convert the formats that won’t render. Like I said, it may even be a bug in Vegas since Pro 11 is so new so you also might want to contact Sony just in case it’s something in Vegas Pro 11.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Eric Brinkerink]

Vaughan,

I was wondering which error message you get and at what point.
And does it also occur when you create a new project with none but just a simple event (say just a solid back ground color)?

[Vaughan Mitchell]

The error message:
quote
An error occurred while creating the media file.
Exception thrown by method called.
unquote.
This occurred after creating a new project with a simple background.
I hit Project / Render As… and received the above error message.
It really shouldn’t be this difficult!
Vaughan

[Eric Brinkerink]

Do you it happen while rendering a file or does it happen when you click File -> Render as… and don’t you get to see the render dialogue at all?

[Vaughan Mitchell]

It happens when I click File -> Render as… and I don’t get to see the render dialogue at all.

Vaughan

[Eric Brinkerink]

OK, so the same problem I had but I got an error message which made more sense. It could be a codec problem but without a reference to the file causing the problem it’s hard locate it.

The error message “An error occurred while creating the media file.” is strange as you don’t even get to creating a media file.

Sorry, but I don’t think I can help you any further with this, someone with access to the source code should be able to solve it. So wait for Sony to reply?