Why ????

[John Rofrano]

[Rion Gilpin] “adding one jpeg file in the left hand, lower corner as a logo, Vegas decides that after it gets to 5% it won’t render any longer!!!!! “

I share your frustration. How big is the JPG file? If it’s being used as a logo it doesn’t have to be very big.

~jr

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[Steve Rhoden]

I too understand your dilemma….Do you have Version 9 pro?

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
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[Danny Hays]

What kind of files are you using? Do you by chance have a large still image about 5% into the project? I would try removing the still images from the whole project and doing a test render. If it works, Vegas has a problem with your pictures. you may be able to start a new project and insert each pic, set the preview window quality to best/full and clicking the floppy disc icon in the preview window to save it as a jpeg that will defenetly work in Vegas. Also what format videos are you putting on the timeline and what format are you rendering too?
We sence your frustration so give us a chance to help before you dump Vegas. I have been using it for many years and have had VERY little problems with it.

[Rion Gilpin]

the jpeg is 51 kb. It’s about 20 minutes in an 1.20 length video. I am rendering in 1080 60i to mt2. I rarely have any problems rendering without any lighting effects. But if I put anything in (move the brightness a smidge) it renders the video which takes over 2 hours. Rendering with no plug ins, takes about 20 minutes. And now I’m getting these white lines, almost like I plugd in the ray effect, but I didn’t.
I’m also putting a clock effect (count down from 3:00) on top of the jpeg, but I haven’t even tried that yet, because it won’t render with the jpeg, I doubt it will with that plug in… If I missed a question, sorry, I’m flustered.

Rion

[John Rofrano]

[Rion Gilpin] “the jpeg is 51 kb.”

I’m sorry my question wasn’t more precise. What are the dimensions of the JPEG (width and height) and what are the dimensions of your project?

~jr

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[Danny Hays]

It sounds like Vegas has a problem with one of the files in the timeline. I would put one video on it, render to m2t, if that works put one of the jpgs on it, drag it out to a few minutes and see if that works. We need to determine if it’s a file conflict or a problem with Vegas. Can you render to other formats?

[Rion Gilpin]

the pixel size is 1916 x 1080. well, it started to render a little more, but now it stops at 11%. the video I have is about 6 mixed martial arts fights. there’s no plug ins. I didn’t even fix any lighting because when I did that the actual video would take 3 days to render. and that was just adjusting brightness.
I can’t render in any other format, no.

Rion

[John Rofrano]

[Rion Gilpin] “the pixel size is 1916 x 1080.”

I assume that’s the size of the JPG? What is the size of your project?

I also think if you answer Danny’s questions that might give us a clue about what’s going on and that is:

What format are your source files?

In particular:

1. Where did they come from: (camera make/model)?
2. What file extension do they use (e.g., mov, avi, mp4) ?
3. What codec do they use? (AVC/H.264, MJPEG, DV)?

What I thought I understood from your original post is that everything was working and rendering 100% correctly and that adding this JPG file was causing it not to render. I’m no longer sure that this is the case.

~jr

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[Rion Gilpin]

footage came from sony fx1. 1080 60i. Shot on sony mini dv HD tape and captured with sony tape deck into vegas with m2t files. Yes, everything was working in sony until recently when I tried adjusting the brightness. when I saw that it was rendering the footage poorly i stopped adjusting the brightness. I rendered without the brightness and it worked perfectly. took about 20 minutes to render the 70 minute video. At first,I input a png file and that’s when it would only render 5 % of the footage to mpeg2. I than tried several different options of rendering (avi,wmv etc) with the same result. I than converted to jpeg, but got the same result. I than realized maybe it was stopping at 5% because that’s about where the jpeg logo design started. So, I put the logo (jpeg) through the whole video. Starting from beginnning to end. So for the last 24 hours, it’s been rendering 1080 60i mpeg2. And it’s saying 20 more hours left…. but it’s rendering past 5% : )

Rion

[Danny Hays]

OK. Your camera is shooting HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080,29.97 fps). Your project settings should be set to exactly the same as your footage. Open a new project, under file/properties, select this setting in your template. Also make sure in your Options/Preferences, that enable no-recompress long GOP rendering is checked. Now with these settings, you should be able to put a m2t file from the camera on the timeline as is, with no effects, fades or anything that changes the rendered video from the original, Vegas will not recompress the file, meaning very little render time for that event. Try opening a new project with the settings as I stated above, put the original png file on the timeline, put the curser somewhare in the event area so it shows up in the preview window, set your preview window quality to Best/Full, and click the floppy icon in the preview window to take a jpeg pic if it at your 1440×1080 aspect ratio, put the newly made jpeg in the beginning of the timeline only as before. Now if you have no effects, fades, video overlapping other video, so that other than the area where the logo is, there is absolutly no change to the rendered file as the original m2t files, Vegas should only render the area where the logo is since the rendered video will be different there, then the rest of the render should take little or no time since your not changing it at all from the original, and your preview window should say “No recompression required”. I just tried it by making a new project with these settings, put a one minute and ten seconds m2t file on the timeline, rendered to the same HDV 1080-60i (1440×1080,29.97 fps) and it took one minute and four seconds to render, and this is on a dual core laptop, and my preview window said “No re-compression required”. Following these instructions should make a world of difference in your render times. Hope this helps, Danny Hays