[Marilyn Palacol]

Thank you Mike. I actually purchased 2 external drives last month, Seagate Free Agent Portable Drive 320GB, and My Passport Essential 320GB. I was getting ready to go on vacation with my laptop and dreaded the thought of losing my Vegas project so I bought the drives for backup purposes only.

I will do everything you suggested and see how it goes. Our family is about to eat our turkey in an hour and I cannot tell you how much happier I am this holiday knowing that a better solution may be in sight and I will have more time to go shopping.

Big thanks! =)

Marilyn

[Marilyn Palacol]

Hi Mike – thank you for your quick reply and assistance. Please see below:

To troubleshoot the problems you’re having, we need as much detail as you can provide us.
CPU type; Genuine Intel CPU T-2060 @ 1.60 GHz 1.60 GHz
Operating system; 32-bit
amount of RAM; 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM
number & size of hard drives; 120GB(5400RPM) HDD
Free space; 42GB
what types of files are in the project;
if you’re suing images, what type and size (in pixels) are they;
JPEG still shots; 500KB-2MB size
MPG videos; 2MB-20MB size
Sony Cybershot 5.1 megapixels MPEGMovie VX DSC-W5 Camera
what types of FX you’re using.
Text Overlays
Transitions
Credit Rolls
Music Audio MP3 files 400KB avg 6 songs total
21 minute project

The DVD project is a single movie with a collage of still images, video with audio, and background music. Over the last consecutive 20 days, I have not had one successful render with audio. The best render so far had video and audio perfectly except about 30 seconds of video missing. The next render disabled my playback with error “Microsoft Sound Mapper does not exist”. After searching a number of forums and applying numerous suggestions to regain my audio, I have no idea why my renders either shutdown in Vegas, or when I click “Enable long-GOP rendering” in Preferences, the render freezes.

I would love to get over this hump and get on with my life.

Thanks MIke!! Really appreciate especially on this holiday. . . .

[Marilyn Palacol]

This conversation is fascinating as I thought all renders for projects 20 minutes or over take no less than 8-10 hours to complete which has been my experience. I’m having the same problem right now as my Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum project is stuck at 84% and 30 minutes has passed with no movement. Total elapsed time has been 9 hours. Approximate time left is 0:00.

I’m tempted to reinstall Vegas as I’m at the end of my rope. Will the .vf file still open with all it’s respective tracks after reinstalling? My fear is I have to start at ground zero. Or I may render in blocks which I havent’t tried yet and reconnect the mini renders in DVD Architect. Is the latter a better solution?

I thought Vegas Movie Studio was the end all complete package but from what I’m hearing from all these discussions, ift’s apparently deficient in many respects. Is it considered a watered down Vegas?

Thanks for any tips!

Marilyn

[Marilyn Palacol]

My 20-minute project on Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack is currently rendering with 5 hours remaining yet there has not been any video in the preview window for the last hour. This thread is the closest I’ve seen to same issue. Can someone please advise if my video is actually rendering, or am I wasting the next 5 hours of my time?

My audio is still muted for some reason during preview although I can see the waveforms on the mixer, but I thought I’d render video using DVD NTSC video stream using MainConcept MPEG-2 with .m2v format.

Thanks for any tips!

[Marilyn Palacol]

The “Custom” button continues to gray out for MPEG-2 & AC3. When I change to .wmv or .wma or .avi, the “Custom” button is activated. I believe I selected MPEG-2 and AC3 for all new projects so maybe those are the defaults instead of customized. I’m just guessing. . . .

[Marilyn Palacol]

Thank you Terry and John for your feedback.

The program is Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack including DVD Architect Studio and Sound Forge Audio Studio. I was not aware of any non-studio Vegas software. I’ve only used MS Movie Maker in the past.

I rendered the AC3 file quickly with no problem. The MPEG-2 froze the software at 75% when rendering using template DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream.

I thought I finally broke the code with these wonderful tips. Hopefully it’s just my laptop that had a glitch. I rendered this morning and left for work over 12 hours ago. I have attempted to render my 20-minute video for 10 straight days overnight, each lasting 8-9 hours.

I’m learning something new each time so sorry if I don’t talk the talk yet. This whole problem started when I got the error “Microsoft Sound Mapper does not exist”. I’ll try again right now but I wanted to provide the software name just in case you have any more useful info to provide. Much appreciated…… Marilyn