[Dan Sherman]

The render succeeded.
Finally.
Strung together nested segments and did a 2 pass render, rendering audio seperately.
Am now burning DVD, rough version for French translator.
But confidence not yet restored.
Obviously an intermittent problem.

Is nesting not a kind of pre-render?
Confused on that one.

Anyway,—to selectively pre-render I highlight section, got to tools, choose selectively render and I get rendered sections that I later joint together on the timeline and save. But what do I save these as? They are already .avi right?
Just a little (a lot)unclear on that.

[Dan Sherman]

By pre-render, do you mean nested?
Right now project is 52% rendered.
40 minutes long,—about 30 nested segments on TL.

Render stopped at 33 per cent twice yestgerday,—-65 per cent and 16 per cent, on varous attempts.
Also, and this may be a clue; Vegas sometimes takes forever, like a couple of minutes to open.
Other times it pops up in seconds.
Puzzling and frustrating.
It has been suggesged on various forums that the problem could be memory, power supply, dynamic RAM setting too low, or too high.
Have done three re-installs in past year and have spend 15 hundred plus dollars on consultations and hardware.
The same problem returns.
Tomorrow I will decide if I will scrap this 6 thousand dollar turnkey work station and buy another or contract with another consultant.
Am leaning toward the latter.

[Dan Sherman]

Done three uninstalls this year.
Things seem to get better for a while, then go south.

[Dan Sherman]

Didn’t work.
Can’t render anything longer than a few seconds.
Just packs up and shuts down.

[Dan Sherman]

Dynamic RAM was set to zero. May be the problem.
Drive didn’t need to be defragged.
Waiting and hoping.

[Dan Sherman]

Thanks guys,—at least I get a response overe here!

[Dan Sherman]

Have rendered a couple of small projects to see.
My finding,—quality is OK,.
Can’t see that it is any better than .wmv files I usually use for web-based video.
Only difference is MPEG 4 files are larger.
So, until somebody can convince us otherwise we will use .wmv.

[Dan Sherman]

Just did a project for a friend’s parent’s 50th.
Shot on one of those disc recorders.
Anyway,—the usual poor-quality consumer on-camera mic way to far from the soft spoken mother.
Had BG music pulled down to 12.9 db.
Voice pumped up high enough to hear the little disc spinning around on that nasy little camcorder.
Levels sounded acceptable during editing.
But from stand alone DVD player the soft spoken mom was often drowned out by BG music.
Why the difference?
Rendering in PCM rectify that?
Or changing the AC-3 settings?

[Dan Sherman]

Never mind figured it our in “paint” as Perter suggested.
Tx

[Dan Sherman]

I have QT installed version 7.
I have rendered the project out in 9 sections.
All of the photos are tifs.
But about 18 would not render.
1) can I add these to .avi tl after converting to .ping, as suggested.
2) How exactly do i convert,—don’t have PS.
Curious that at least two of these photos appeared on the timeline, but were NOT in the source assets file.