[Lex Gernale]

what is your source footage? SD or HD? from your project settings, you have 720×480 resolution, your monitor probably can handle 1920×1080 or more…

try other HD project template. ex. HD 1080

hope this helps

[Lex Gernale]

i’ve encountered bend/broken pins either from Firewire Cable or Camcorder Firewire port from different cameras.

note that you cannot capture Video from old Digital 8 tapes recorded from DCR-TRV340 to new DCR-HC52 MiniDV

[Lex Gernale]

try other DVD template. my work around is to render the video to DVD Architect NTSC video stream Template, Render the Audio to Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio and use DVD Architect to prepare and Burn the DVD Video

Hth

[Lex Gernale]

if desktop monitor settings (resolutions) are correct, there would be no problem.

[Lex Gernale]

try other camcorder. maybe broken firewire port of the handycam DCR-TRV340. see if the 4-pin port is in place.

[Lex Gernale]

try this.
divide the project in two and make 2 Regions then save. for example if you have 2 minutes video on the timeline, make region for 0-1 minutes and the second region 1-2 minutes. Render the first region. open another instance of Vegas pro and the same project. render the second region.
check the task manager if cpu increase to 40%.

when the render is complete, create another video track on top, put the 2 rendered files and render it again to make it continuous 4 minutes rendered video clip. no worry for render generation because of smart render for avchd.

I have AMD Phenom II X4 system with 8 Gig of RAM. Vegas pro 10e

if i notice the cpu usage is very low, i chunk the project in to 2-4 render.

hope this helps

thanks