[Nigel O’neill]

Charlie

I may help to know what PVR you are using. It is also worth noting that some camera manufacturers tinker with the standard implementation of AVCHD, meaning that your AVCHD is not what the editing software is expecting, hence the crashes.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Personally, for content that long, I would either split it into 2 discs or consider using a dual layer disc.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

I do. Sony Vegas has been going backwards in stability since version 9. I moved to Sony Vegas because other editing software I used was unstable.

I typically have a number of crashes in Vegas in projects that never used to crash. My projects are multi-cam HDV. It usually takes 2-3 attempts to complete a render: typically it first stalls, then crashes and then finally renders. No difference in render settings, same project. Go figure. Thankfully, I don’t rely on Vegas for a living, otherwise I would be missing lots of deadlines.

I think Sony should take the Pro out of the software title because it certainly is not living up to its name.

Don’t get me wrong: I love the software, but hate the instability that is beginning to creep in with each release. I feel that version 11 (released 12 months after version 10), was just a means to sucker us to paying for a evolutionary rather than revoluntionary update.

[Nigel O’neill]

Have you installed new hardware or updated your video drivers lately? Video drivers are especially temperamental.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Ideally, you would need a tripod, a dolly and some tracks so that you can perfectly line up the shots and get the consistency between the dissolve.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Chas

The following sage advice appears in a John Rofrano post:

It’s probably important to note that there is no reason to render at BEST unless you are resizing video. The difference between BEST and GOOD is that BEST uses a more complicated resizing algorithm which increases render time by about 2x. This is why GOOD is the default. You can save yourself a lot of render time by using GOOD unless you are resizing.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Mike/Chas

Out of the box, Vegas sets the quality slider to 15. I notice Mike’s is set to 31, which I believe could be the difference when I was noticing a softening effect. My render settings are quality slider = 31, render quality never higher than good (in the project tab).

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

There have been previous posts reporting similar issues relating to a corrupt Windows font, although I don’t know which one.

Does it happen if you simply restart Vegas?

If you have changed the default font size of Windows fonts, you could try to defaulting them to see if that remedies your issue.

Lastly you could also try to default Vegas’ settings by holding down CTRL-SHIFT as you start it.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

Can you be a bit more descriptive please? A little bit more information might help us to diagnose your issue.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Nigel O’neill]

I would use the standard mpeg-2 DVD Architect templates that Vegas offers as they are. If you are in the US, choose NTSC wide screen, but if you are in Europe or Australia like me, choose PAL. You can customise the template to include the audio track or render it separately as a AC3 stream.

Your video render settings should only be set to ‘good’, not best.

It might be a good idea to check your deinterlace method under your project properties = blend fields, and that you have selected Adjust source media to better match project or render settings.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6