Houston, we have lift off!!
Glad to hear that things are finally working as expected.
Reinstall is a last resort but something that has to be done when all other suggestions fail.
I forgot to mention that you may need your serial number when you’re doing this. All this information is on your Sony My Account – My Software page. You will need to log into to this page so hopefully you remember your username and password 🙂
There’s no need to find your original disc. You can download the latest build of it on the Vegas family updates page
You may need to log in to this page but it’s been so long since I’ve done this that I honestly can’t remember.
You’re doing everything the way it’s supposed to be done so I can’t imagine any reason for your render to be failing.
Try changing the name of your final render and render everything to a new folder. I’ve seen it happen where Vegas and DVDA get very confused and sometimes this will help.
Have you tried reinstalling DVDA yet?
Scott, I’ve noticed the same thing with the Border FX and where it gets applied. It used to be that you always applied it before Pan/Crop if you had media of different resolutions. All I can think is that Sony has changed things in some way and neglected to tell us 🙁