[Ananda Holenarasipura]

Hi Jeff,

I reduced the Dynamic RAM preview max to 0 and the maximum number of threads to 4 and reran the project. Initial estimated time for rendering was 5 hours. After 40 mts, 16% rendering was complete and it showed estimated remaining time as 3hrs and 28mts. CPU usage was 86%. Everything fine till now. However in the morning when I saw, it was still rendering, completed only 28% and taken 8hrs and 28mts. CPU usage was still 86%.
I have tried earlier in this new machine short footages (15mts) and it looks OK. My problem is with long (one hour)video rendering.

What is this Dynamic RAM preview? Even when I set it zero, I can still see video on my preview window during rendering.
I am really stuck.
Thanks,
Ananda

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your quick response. Here are the machine details:
CPU: i5-2320 processor (3.0MHz, 6MB cache)
Memory: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz
Graphic processor: 1GB GDDR5 AMD Radeon HD 6770.
HDD: ITB, 200RPM.
OS: Windows 7 Professional 32/64 bit.

I checked the Video preferences. They are as follows:
Dynamic RAM Preview max: 350MB.
Max # of rendering threads: 16

Thanks again,
Ananda

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

Hi John,
Thanks for the response. 15mts and 45mts refers to the duration of the video in minutes. I have used the AVCHD template from pro without changing it.

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

I have exactly the same problem. With Vegas Pro 8.0 I was not able to even render to AVCHD format as any video beyond 15mts used to crash. I downloaded the trial version of Pro 9.0 and with this was successfully able to render a 45mts footage in AVCHD. However, once I played this file on my Popcorn hour A110 media player the video started freezing every other frame while audio worked perfectly. I tried using TxMuxer as suggested, but the output file from TXMuxer still had the same problem. However, I tried the following based on a suggestion given in this forum. I used Sony Picture motion browser to download the clips from my camera. Choose the clips I want and then select “create AVCHD disc” from menu, insert a DVD blank and then under Disc creation option choose” Create a disc that plays the Video smoothly and seemelessly”. Create the DVD. While that is finished you will have a M2TS file in the stream directly of the DVD. This file plays very smoothly on the Popcorn. This proves that popcorn is able to handle AVCHD persay and hence there is something wrong with the AVCHD format rendered by Pro. The above method has the following limitation. Firstly I cannot use it if the total length of all the clippings I need is more than 4.7Gb or 8.4 Gb if I use double sided DVD blank. Secondly I lose all the editing features of Vega Pro. Till today I have not been able to successfully generate a AVCHD file out of Vegas Pro that I have been able to play on my HD TV using Popcorn hour. I am desperately waiting for any suggestion. I am currently rendering to a modified template using main concept mpg and choosing 1080i resolution and stereo audio. This guzzles a lot of disc space, too much rendering time as vegas rerenders and lose the 5.1 audio.

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

Hi John,
Thanks. I am a bit of a novice and hope you do not laugh at my rather fundamental questions below.
1. How do I burn my edited High definition Video on to a DVD directly from the timeline? Do I need to render and if so, what rendering format I should use?
2. How do I save my edited conents on a media server? What does the media server do and where can I get them? I stay in India. I would certainly be very interested in getting one which I can directly hook on to a TV.

Thanks,
Ananda

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

Hi John,
I will try your suggestion. In the mean while, I would appreciate if you can throw some light on my other questions:
Is what I am doing something unusual? Is loading back the edited video on to the camcorder to view on a TV not common? In the absence of a blueray burner, how do people view the edited HD video on a HDTV? Is there any other method I can use?

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

John,
As suggested by you I triend rendering with the case open. In fact I also had an additional fan(Battery powered) blowing air directly to the CPU heatsink. That did not help. In fact the tool crashed after partially rendering about 4 minutes of Video (rendered video length: rendering time around 1 hour). The CPU was just warm to touch. I next tried cropping the video from 1hr 30 minutes to 30minutes, saving this 30mts video as a separate file and rendering this video in a new project. This time the tool crashed after rendering a 12minute footage. This time there was an error message saying that Microsoft encountered a problem and needs to shutdown the application.
I am really frustrated and do not know what to do? There is no consistancy and the net net result is that I am unable to view the painstakingly edited video on the TV. Am I doing something fundamentally wrong and stupid?
Just to reiterate the flow that I have followed is as below:
I captured the video using my Sony HDR SR11 camcorder. The captured video is close to 1Hr 45mts.
I imported the video to my computer(details of the computer given in my earlier posting) using the supplied Handycam utility. The files were stored as a number of .m2ts files.
I then imported all these files into Vegas and then edited the video by introducing audio (music and Voice)and a few text slides.
I then rendered the video in Sony AVC format using the given template.
Is this flow the correct one? As informed earlier my intention is to load back the edited Video on to my Camcorder using the Sony picture motion browser and view it on the HDTV.

I also went through Sony customer support knowledge base and as per one suggestion, I tried breaking the footage to smaller timed footages, saving each as a separate projects and then rendering them separately, opening a new project and importing these rendered videos and stitching all of them together. The rendered videos were saved as .M2TS files and when I imported these in the project media of a new project, I found these were shown as .m2ts files and not as .M2TS and when I started rendering, it started rendering all over again at which time I thought it was useless as I knew the tool will again crash if it has to rerender the entire footage.
Can you please suggest a work around? Is what I am doing something unusual? Is loading back the edited video on to the camcorder to view on a TV not common? In the absence of a blueray burner, how do people view the edited HD video on a HDTV?

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

Hi John,

Here are the details of my PC.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 GHz CPU
Opearting system: XP
Memory 4Gb DDR2
Internal Hard disc: 400Gb. 4 partitions. C drive 100Gb.

The Vegas software is residing on the C drive of my internal hard disc. The media files are on an external USB hard disc of 500Gb capacity. I am rendering the files to this external hard disc.
As per your suggestion, I set my virtual memory to 6Gb. I tried rendering a 15mt Video to AVCHD format. It worked fine although it took 3 hours. Based on this success and all my previous partially successful attempts, I felt that 15 to 20 mts video can be successfully rendered. I then tried rendering a 20 mt video. To my utter dismay, the tool (Vegas) crashed with an error message that Microsoft… has encountered a problem and the application has to be closed. Unlike previous attempts, this time it looked like a total crash and there was no partially rendered file. I was doing this overnight and when I went to sleep it had rendered 10%. There were no transitions or video effects introduced. I just had one title slide. Now I do not know what to do. Is there an inherent limitation in Vegas which limits the file size that can be rendered? All my previous renders including the partially rendered portion was around 1.7 to 1.9Gb size.(rendered file size).

Thanks,
Ananda

PS; At this stage, can I open a new thread and post all these responses in them?

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

Hi John,

Thanks for your response. I will post the details of my computer as soon as I reach home(I am currently at work). In the mean time, can you tell me how do I start a new thread? I am a beginner to this forum and hence may need some handholding initially.

Thanks for your understanding
Ananda

[Ananda Holenarasipura]

Since I did not get any response to my earlier request so far, I think I have not explained the problem I am facing properly. Although I have used earlier Adobe premier elements, I am a novice to the use of Vegas platinum edition. I have shot a video on my trip to someplaces in India in HD using Sony HDR SR11.The length of the Video is approximately 2 hours. While editing the Video in Vegas 9.0, I have inserted a few title slides as well as two video clips (non HD) from .avi files. I am rendering the completed Video into Sony AVC format using the given AVCHD 1920X1080 NTSC template. My intent is to load back the edited Video onto my camcorder using the Picture motion browser and play it on my HD TV.(This was the recommended procedure from Sony). While rendering the video, Vegas crashes after different time intervals. I am able to view and upload the partially rendered Video. I have tried the following things to render the full video without success. I have increased the virtual memory to 30GB. I have reset the number of rendering threads (from preference-video tab) to 1. I have split the Video into 4, 30 minute segments and try to render them separately. I am unable to render the 30 minute footage also. Can any one help me please?