Stephen Mann
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I knew that erasing the sfk and sfl files would likely fix the “can’t create a proxy file” problem, but I never thought of applying it to the “rendering stops at xx%” problem. Glad to hear that it worked. I’ll add it to my small arsenal of fixit tips.
Steve Mann
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Why are you putting this many video files into DVDA? What is your workflow and what are you trying to do?
Since you’re running XP, my first offhand guess would be that you are running out of RAM.
Of course, “crash” is used to describe some thousands or so conditions. How is the “crash” presented?
Steve Mann
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[Eric Monian] “I have Sony Platinum 9 and just got Sony Platinum 10 HD. So based on your comment then, I don’t need to uninstall 9, it will just automatically get overwritten during the 10 install process?
I assume as well then my files of current projects won’t get overwritten?”
Even better. Upgrading Vegas does not replace older versions. You can have both V9 *and* v10 installed. But wait, there’s more. Your Version 9 Vegas is still fully licensed and usable. What many users do is to move the older version to another PC and you can run both at the same time. But, that’s not all… You can transfer (sell or give away) your Version 9 license to someone else. Just tell Sony who the new owner is. (Now the fasttalkingfineprint – your old license of Vegas cannot be used for another upgrade in the future. That’s a one-time per license opportunity).
Steve Mann
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I have no vlue what “Vegas9PL” is, but here’s a link to a reply I sent someone else on a similar question:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1421565/Vegas-custom%20Template.jpg
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You didn’t say what “Render As” template you used, but I’ll bet it wasn’t the MPEG2/DVDA template.
Encoded filesize is determined by bitrate. Higher bitrate=larger file and higher quality.
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“How to avoid long renders from Vegas”
Bone-crushing processor power.
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I think that you are looking at encoding artifacts. You likely have a ring of green around the hand in the foreground because there’s no spill suppression in the Vegas chromakeyer. Frame-by-frame on the timeline doesn’t introduce encoding artifacts, but when you have a GOP of frames in the encoded video the decoder has to guess what to put in the predictive frames based on the last i-frame.
If I am right, go to the “render as” custom settings and set the encoder to i-frame every 1 frame. The file will be huge, but it would verify my guess.
Steve Mann
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It’s an exact copy of the 1990’s when writable DVD’s were hitting the market. The current crop of players include some that were manufactured before writable BD media was even on the market. It would be no surprise that many of them won’t play BD media that wasn’t even available when the player was made.
Also, the BD spec itself went through two iterations while manufacturers rushed to grab the “Early Adopters”. The 1.0 spec had no provision to accommodate writable BD media.
In the 90’s I included a card in every DVD that flatly stated that “If your DVD player is more than two-years old, it probably won’t play this DVD.”
Steve Mann
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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My Vegas is in the middle of a long encode so I can’t check, but you open the FX chain and do a save-as. Every time you open the FX window on another track or event, you’ll see your setup that you saved. Just load that saved setup and you apply everything that you did in one track or event the the new track or event.
I know this is rambling but I don’t recall the precise method from memory.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com