Vegas Pro 9.0b Still Errors During Render

[Eric Kirk]

Jay,

I appreciate the conspiracy theory 🙂 I sure hope you are not right. To me, I have a hard time thinking any vendor would purposely create flaws in their product, particularly when the primary flaw ultimately prevents you from using the product for what it was designed for. Vegas Pro is no good if you can’t render a movie.

Now, I’ve been using Vegas since like version 4 and never had a rendering problem even up through my initial install of 9.0. This seems to have started just in recent months. There has been some mention about the way Vegas uses memory, etc and since the problem often gets worse throughout a session seems to uphold that.

I love the product and it gets great reviews and I hope to see a solution sometime but as for now, my problem persists and it is getting a bit frustrating. I used to just hit render and that baby went!

Appreciate any other comments that might help.

Eric
Kirk Productions

Eric D. Kirk
http://www.kirkproductions.com

[Eric Kirk]

Jay,

Can you elaborate on this comment “You can wait around possibly forever or start using a demuxer to create a DV “workfile” that Vegas is optimized to work with as a temporary workaround.”

Specifically the workaround. I am not familiar with a demuxer, creating a DV workfile, etc.

Thanks,

Eric

Eric D. Kirk
http://www.kirkproductions.com

[Eric Kirk]

Jay,

Thanks. Look forward to the rest.
Kirk on bridge.

Funny enough, I am retired military and was actually a captain (Captain Kirk)for 7 years before making Major. 🙂

Eric

Eric D. Kirk
http://www.kirkproductions.com

[Eric Kirk]

Jay,

Thanks for the info. I still have a couple follow ups so let me describe what I currently do and then perhaps you can better explain how I implement this avidmux.

I’m shooting in HD (Panasonic AG HMC150) which records to an SD card. I simply copy the .mts files into a directory and drag and drop directly in to Vegas Pro 9.0b.

I do my editing, render in .avi if I am going to apply some after effects, then bring back as an .avi in to Vegas. All my my drafts, working copies I render in .wmv usually. I render many tests at 1920×1080 and always in 16:9, mostly at 3mbps, somethings 6.4mbps. This is where it often has the errors. Oh, and even rendering to MPEG 1 or 2 errors.

So, with this in mind, where do I implement the use of the avidmux software? I get the impression we are adding a step to sort of “launder” the files, like outputting an avi (which is horrendously long), re-render from this avidmux and bring back in?

Appreciate the additional info.

Eric

Eric D. Kirk
http://www.kirkproductions.com

[Eric Kirk]

All who read this,

I was getting ready to experiment with this avidmux and still plan to download it, if nothing more than an additional tool.

But after all of this, I went on a cleaning house mission the other day and I uninstalled some old programs like the AVID program which I never liked, despite its excessive cost and AVID liquid too.

There were some other little odds and ends, but those were the biggies. Now, I didn’t want to jump to conclusions but surprisingly, I’ve been able to render those HD files in 1920×1080 at 6.4mpbs, MPEG2 files, etc without a crash. Now, I’ve only done a handful but in earlier tests, those would crash without question either within a couple percent of a render or immediately.

So for others out there, in my opinion, this was a series of conflicts with other programs, maybe other programs hogging resources, or something along those lines.

So, if there is any junk you can uninstall, it could help you too.

Now, I could be back here tonight and everything went to heck in a hand basket, but it seems good and I will cross my fingers.

Eric

So

Eric D. Kirk
http://www.kirkproductions.com

[Bob Peterson]

You were being led down the primrose path with conspiracy theories. While I hesitated to jump in, the explanations being given didn’t make any sense at all. I’m glad you found a more logical explanation.

[Eric Kirk]

Bob,

I appreciate the note and you should have jumped in. 🙂 While I appreciate any and all help, as you see in the thread, I was skeptical of the Sony conspiracy from the start. Vegas has always been an exceptional product and for rendering to suddenly go south for no apparent reason (not to mention I put in a new board with the Quad Core, 4GB RAM, and even a new video card) did not make sense.

My guess is that in my recent install of After Effects, Adobe CS4, on top of all of these other things finally just caused some interference. So now I have Vegas, CS4, and VisionLab Studio, all working in perfect harmony.

I’ve been doing this stuff long enough now to sort of selectively choose what seems to make sense.

All is good though.

Thanks to all of you.

Eric

Eric D. Kirk
http://www.kirkproductions.com