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wmv render issue
When rendering windows media files my PC begins very fast and gradually slows down to almost a complete standstill. This happens most usually on video clips of 10 mins or more. The initial render speed of maybe 90 fps will begin to slow down at the halfway point. I run a quad core i7 chip, with 12 g of ram. The ram is at maybe 3 gb win the slow down starts. I there something I can do to get around this?
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I there something I can do to get around this?
Your options are 1) Don’t use WMV, and 2) Wait for Vegas 9.0d and hope that Sony has fixed this. We see lots of people having memory problems with rendering to WMV. Personally, I never use WMV as H.264 is a better format to use (i.e., Sony AVC). So that would be option 1, don’t use WMV, use Sony AVC.
~jr
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John,
Thanks for the reply. If I render in Sony AVC, is there a pretty good chance that my client can play that render on windows media player 9?
Also, I’m not really running out of memory. 12 gig installed. Can I raise a setting somewhere to allow more of that memory to be used? Would that help?
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If I render in Sony AVC, is there a pretty good chance that my client can play that render on windows media player 9?
Nope. AVC files are playable with the Quicktime player. WMP doesn’t know what to do with them. In that case, create an AVI file out of Vegas and use Microsoft’s WMV encoder (free if you search their site) to encode the files to WMV if that’s what you must deliver.
~jr
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That is great advice. Amazed I didn’t think of it myself. Windows encoder is already install on this PC, all I need to do is use it.
Thanks!
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