[Larry Brewer]

And again, no luck with resetting my max number of threads to 1. I will admit that I was surprised to see that the render speed of 1 thread was about the same as the render speed of 4, or even 8 threads. And they all crashed at 25% – 28%. So for me at least, the jury is still out on the cause of this on my end.

[Larry Brewer]

Your issue sounds a lot like issues I’m having with Vegas 12. My project apparently gets too big, and while I can successfully save it and close it, it then refuses to open. There is a thread on this topic from earlier last month.

Can you tell me the size of the Veg file that refuses to open in your case?

In my case it was 3,864k. I had an older restore file that I used to rescue my work losing only 2 days editing. Picked myself up, started editing again and when I got the veg file back to approx 3,864K.. it refused to open again. So back to the restore file. Another 2 days editing down the drain, and I finished by editing in segments. and putting the pieces together.

I am very curious about the .veg file size that caused your failure to open, and the error message displayed.

As for your workflow. Nesting is just a matter of actually placing a .veg file directly on the timeline and Vegas will treat it as a single event. I’ve done that and it works fine. I’ve also copied an entire timeline of events from one Vegas timeline to another Vegas timeline with no problems, and prefer that to nesting in most cases. For example.. if I want to copy a title from a scene that’s buried inside a nested veg file, how do you do that?

But please let me know about that veg file size.

[Larry Brewer]

I honestly didn’t see your update when I replied. Not sure if it was actually displayed. I know I had only one email showing your first post. But that’s a moot point now.

I had installed build 486 when it first came out. It quickly gave me fits with thumbnail creation causing crashes. So I reverted to an earlier build to solve that problem. A workaround for the thumbnail came along so I re-installed build 486. Next session I edit requires a Quicktime render for delivery. And then Vegas 486 crashes on Quicktime render. And that’s where I’m at today.

So in your case turning off multi-threading solved the issue. I’ll try that…

No luck changing the setting from 8 threads to 4 threads. Do you set it to a lesser setting than 4?

[Larry Brewer]

Thanks for the input Bernie. My quicktime issues have not been corrected and I was excited to see your post.

Unfortunatly for me though, Quicktime 7.6.6 did not do the trick.

So, to date, I have reloaded Vegas to the most recent build, and reloaded quicktime with the most recent version, and now an older version and still no results when rendering Quicktime files. Crashes everytime. Usually around 25%.

I think it’s me. Maybe a bad codec, or something.

[Larry Brewer]

Stephen,

Wow! You put some time, thought and work into this list and posting it to Wiki. Thank you so much. I’m thinking this might be the start of something very helpful. I will send a lot of newbie users to this page, and of course to Creative Cow. Thanks again!

larry brewer

[Larry Brewer]

All my QuickTime issues in the past had to do with running an updated version of QuickTime Pro. My current version is 7.6.8. Does that need to be rolled back?

[Larry Brewer]

All drives have hundreds of GBs of empty space.

My experience is that cable systems and even broadcast stations, while having their own strict guidelines, the guy that actually imports the files into the playback system could care less. I’ve already rendered mpg for these spots so I’ll send those while I try to work out this QT issue.

[Larry Brewer]

I have tried several. Just attempted Sorensen 3. Got to 25% and Vegas crashed. Which codec would you suggest for a 1080 QT render?

[Larry Brewer]

All my drives. To have adequate space for 30 sec render. I’ll check and see where my temp files are being stored just to make sure. Thank you for the suggestion.

[Larry Brewer]

I need to render a series of 30 sec HD spots for a local cable channel. Having some difficultly with crashes

Vegas 12 keeps crashing when I try to render a QuickTime movie. This is a new install of Vegas 12 build 486. My QuickTime is version 7.6.8.