Vegas Pro 11 – Will Not Render

[Virginio Alberti]

Hi
I’ve got your same problem
RENDER AS don’t work

How have you solved ?

I work with Vegas pro 11
Win 7
64 bit

[Vaughan Mitchell]

I’m sorry to report that I was never able to fix this problem.

Since then I have bought a new 64bit Win7 PC, installed the Vegas software, and the rendering works OK.

Vaughan

[John Rofrano]

[Vaughan Mitchell] “Since then I have bought a new 64bit Win7 PC, installed the Vegas software, and the rendering works OK.”

It should be pointed out that this is the experience of most of us that keep a clean PC. Installing other video software (especially code-paks) often causes conflicts. I’m very particular about what gets installed on my PC and I haven’t had a lot of the problems that people are reporting here.

~jr

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

[Vaughan Mitchell]

John is absolutely right.
I installed the program on two other (older & slower) PCs which are relatively ‘clean’ – no problems apart from having to wait for ever while the rendering took place.
And I still have no feeling for what the nasty might be on the problem PC!
Vaughan

[Todd Boyle]

Vaughan now that you have your new PC, will you reformat the ASUS P5B machine and do a fresh install, just to put this to bed? ASUS says there could be issues with the SATA or other arcane things, which could explain why your render went OK onto the DVD but not the disk. https://support.asus.com/faq/detail.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&m=P5B-Plus&s=22&hashedid=gBujTllampYpc8wO&os=&no=A9AE8BF4-52DC-771B-ADF3-6F203E22108E

[Vaughan Mitchell]

OK Todd, just for you I have made a clean reinstall of Win7 on the old machine. The machine is still a RAID 1 device – I didn’t change any of the RAID settings.
After installing the anti virus stuff, and updating to IE9, I installed Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11.0 on an otherwise empty instalation.
And Rendering now works.
I will be installing other stuff gradually, and if at any stage the rendering function fails again, we shall have learned something useful!
Vaughan

[David Falck]

I have this problem.

Today something weird started happening with Vegas 12. I was mucking about in my recent project and when I finished I pressed “Render As” and then this error came up:

An error occurred while creating the media file . Exception thrown by method called

It’s been around 2 months since I installed Windows 8. Vegas has been working flawlessly until now.
I tried rendering different projects (both empty and with media files), restarting and reinstalling Vegas but the error still came up. Then I tried Ctrl + M (which means Render To New Track) and then this error came up:

An error occurred during the current operation. An exception was thrown by a type’s initializer (.cctor).

I also Googled on the first error (the second one didn’t give any good results) and came to the conclusion that it might be the K-Lite Codec pack I had installed MONTHS ago. I tried uninstalling the pack and removing it from the registry as well but no dice.
Some users had said that only reinstalling Windows helped. So I tried Windows 8’s Refresh; and it worked!
I carefully selected programs I wanted to install using ninite.com – and I accidentally selected MPC with decoders (included were MPC). After installing everything Vegas no longer worked, same error.

So I did a second reformat, went to MPC’s website and installed it without K-Lite (I presume the installer doesn’t install codecs, since it didn’t give any information on it or anything). Vegas 12 still worked. I preceded to install various Adobe software (Photoshop, Audition, Premiere, After Effects, Media Encoder, Illustrator, Lightroom), DayZ Commander, Mumble (1.2.4 beta), Fraps and other software I’m not completely sure of.

I rendered my project again. I opened the file and then I noticed there were some black frames in the clip. I re-rendered everything but it got worse. Blacks frames to and fro, glitching and other shit.
Then I tried a third time. The error came back.

Now, to recap, I have not installed any codecs; only drivers and various software (there’s a full list below). What the HELL is going on? I’m beginning to speculate it’s Windows Update doing some hidden updates, but I doubt that’s even possible.

List of installed programs as of 2013-01-11 (in the time span of 6 hours or so)

Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Master Collection CS6 Public:Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Master Collection CS6 Public
Start Menu\Programs\ASUS Xonar D1 Audio Public:Start Menu\Programs\ASUS Xonar D1 Audio Public
Start Menu\Programs\Dropbox David\David:Start Menu\Programs\Dropbox David\David
Start Menu\Programs\Foxit Reader Public:Start Menu\Programs\Foxit Reader Public
Start Menu\Programs\Fraps Public:Start Menu\Programs\Fraps Public
Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance Default:Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance Default
Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance Public:Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance Public
Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance David\David:Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance David\David
Start Menu\Programs\MPC-HC x64 Public:Start Menu\Programs\MPC-HC x64 Public
Start Menu\Programs\Mumble Public:Start Menu\Programs\Mumble Public
Start Menu\Programs\Notepad++ Public:Start Menu\Programs\Notepad++ Public
Start Menu\Programs\Notepad++ David\David:Start Menu\Programs\Notepad++ David\David
Start Menu\Programs\NVIDIA Corporation Public:Start Menu\Programs\NVIDIA Corporation Public
Start Menu\Programs\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision Public:Start Menu\Programs\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision Public
Start Menu\Programs\Sony Public:Start Menu\Programs\Sony Public
Start Menu\Programs\Sony\Vegas Pro 12.0 Public:Start Menu\Programs\Sony\Vegas Pro 12.0 Public
Start Menu\Programs\Stardock Public:Start Menu\Programs\Stardock Public
Start Menu\Programs\Stardock\Fences Public:Start Menu\Programs\Stardock\Fences Public
Start Menu\Programs\StartUp Public:Start Menu\Programs\StartUp Public
Start Menu\Programs\Startup David\David:Start Menu\Programs\Startup David\David
Start Menu\Programs\Steam Public:Start Menu\Programs\Steam Public
Start Menu\Programs\System Tools Default:Start Menu\Programs\System Tools Default
Start Menu\Programs\System Tools Public:Start Menu\Programs\System Tools Public
Start Menu\Programs\System Tools David\David:Start Menu\Programs\System Tools David\David
Start Menu\Programs\Tablet PC Public:Start Menu\Programs\Tablet PC Public
Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR Public:Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR Public
Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR David\David:Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR David\David

(List is in no particular order I presume since Windows only dates programs by Year/Month/Day and not hours/minutes)

And inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
I presume this is were codecs which are installed are located.

Addiotional information:
##### System Information #####

OS: Windows 8 Pro (6.02.9200)
DirectX: 9.0c + 10 + 10.1 + 11
CPU name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU speed: 3293MHz
Memory: 4096MB
Screen size: 1920×1200 (32bits)
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
VendorID: 10de, DeviceID: 0e22
Video mem: 768MB
Video driver: nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx (Version 9.18.13.697) (10-2-2012)
Audio device: High Definition Audio Device
Audio driver: HdAudio.sys (Version 6.2.9200.16384) (7-25-2012)

https://pastebin.com/6NF46VBp (Codec tweak tool)

[John Rofrano]

[David Falck] “Fraps and other software I’m not completely sure of.”

Well… if you are installing things that you’re “not completely sure of”… stop doing that. It looks like it all worked until this step. Just install the programs that you NEED and stop installing things that you are not sure about. No one can tell you what’s causing it but your tests seem to indicate that something you installed after the last time you checked Vegas is the cause.

~jr

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

[James Davis]

Hey guys,

I’m sorry to dig up an old thread but I didn’t know where else to start.

Recently got Vegas 12 put on my buddies computer, which is brand new and newly built. Everything works fine up until he hits render. At that point, no matter what file format he is rendering from, it acts like it is going to start rendering, but doesnt. It never goes past 1% and the estimated time keeps climbing until you force close the application.

I have completely uninstalled and wiped out the registry (even by hand) and re installed and it still does not work. I tried putting my copy of 10e on and it won’t render with that either.

File from format m2ts
File render format – mp4, avc, wmv (10)

Any ideas what this could be?