[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

[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

[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]

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,

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,

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]

Hey Norman,

I’m responding to your post but had already posted a new thread. I am responding here because I see similarities in my problem. I am using Vegas 9.0b, Win XP, 4gb RAM (3.25GB), Quad Core and recently mine began going belly up on renders. The error is always memory related and it might come after 1%, might come after 10% but usually around there.

My footage is 23.976fps, 1920×1080 and I’ve tried most variations in frame size. The clip is just 3.45 mins and I am usually only messing with about 1 minute or 2.

Amazingly however is I can render an avi uncompressed, top quality without issue. This sort of tells me that it shouldn’t be a memory issue.

The avi takes forever but it works. But for just draft clips where I want to render a wmv file at 23.976, 1920×1080….errors out.

Appreciate the help from yourself or anyone else.

Eric
Kirk Productions

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

[Eric Kirk]

Hello,

I’ve seen a few messages on this. Somehow I missed the 9.0b update but just got it. From the posts, it seems it has done little to correct rendering issues.

I seem to constantly get shut down while rendering and what it surprising is that they are relatively low file size renders, like trying to render even as low as 512kbps. I’ve tried as high as 19020×1080 and down to 720….still crashes and says I have low memory. But surprisingly, I can render a huge avi at the highest settings. I’m running XP with 4GB (3.25GB) like many others.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,
Eric
Kirk Productionsns

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

[Eric Kirk]

Let me adjust my earlier response. I think I figured out most except there is not option that I have found on how to make it scroll.

Thanks,
Eric

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

[Eric Kirk]

Hello,
Ok, just got around to trying your method. There are probably things you say that I am just missing some steps on but I have to start right at the beginning. I will just copy your original and add my questions within:

Add a text generated media to the timeline [Should I choose the deafault? there are several choices] . Enter text as needed and set it to scroll [I don’t see a way to set it to scroll]. Now turn on “3d track motion” [Where do I find track motion?] on that track and adjust the angle of the text by changing the orientation of on the “X” axis [I think I will get this once I get the previous stuff]. A -45 to -55 setting range should work pretty well.

Thanks and appreciate your help.

Eric

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