Stephen Mann
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I’ve been using DVDA since Version 1 to burn all my DVD projects. Probably a few thousand discs and the only coasters were made by operator error.
I just built a DVD Burner tower with ten drives in it, but other than a few test discs, I haven’t run it for production yet.
Steve Mann
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“With Vegas 10 I was excited to see Sony finally embrace the Cuda architecture to finally allow for a little GPU help, but at least in my case the improvement isn’t quite what’s to be expected.”
I can’t locate the quote on the Sony website, but the CUDA support will only help when you are editing AVCHD with a seriously underpowered processor. Most of us have at least a quad-core processor, and many who depend on Vegas to make a living have upgraded to hex-core processors which will be so much faster than the most expensive CUDA core GPU’s.
I do not believe that GPU support in Vegas will *ever* be the panacea that you expect. In my opinion – only because no one with intimate inside-Sony knowledge has said otherwise – the way Vegas handles video rendering and encoding is optimized for processor power. It would take *longer* for Vegas to prepare data to send to the GPU than it would for Vegas to just do the render of the video in the processor in the first place.
If it were as easy as some think, then Sony would have done it long ago since it is one of the leading criticisms of Vegas.
My opinion.
Steve Mann
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It was extended to the end of the month.
Again, I don’t see anywhere on the email that says not to share the link, but it does say: “Offer available only when purchasing directly from Sony Creative Software via links in this email.”Steve Mann
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They are offering 30% off through the end of May. If you have registered your software with Sony you should have been receiving these emails.
Steve Mann
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[i]”I’m convinced it is yet another bug – grrrr.”[/i]
The OP says that he found his problem *in the drivers*, (user-induced, at that), yet you still blame Vegas???
Steve Mann
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It could be as simple as that you don’t have enough free disk space for the temp and final file.
It could also be that the output file is still open or locked from a previous, aborted encode.Steve Mann
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[i]The videos I’m trying to render are HD quality and are 5-8 minutes long. They take about an hour and a half to two hours to render, and when it reaches 100% the message pops up. [/i]
Without knowing the source media and the encoding parameters, we can’t comment on the time to render. If you have a lot of FX or accidentally dropped your event opacity to 99% then the encode time seems about right.
As far as the error – it’s coming from Windows, not Vegas. It’s saying that Windows can’t create the output file. Vegas uses the TEMP folder during the encode, then when it is finished (100%), it writes the final file to your destination drive. If you have only one hard disk drive then you need at least 2X the final project size.
Steve Mann
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Does *windows* see the burner?
DVDA itself does not “see” hardware, but it only has access to whatever hardware that Windows can communicate with.Steve Mann
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Also. Never, ever burn DVD’s at the fastest speed available. You are guaranteed to make some unplayable DVD’s this way. I prefer half the max speed. Usually 6X to 8X.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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I am not following you when you say that it “deletes” part of your “clip”…
Make a new video track above your video track and put the generated media there.
also, just a nit – everything on the timeline is an event – not a clip. The only place in the manual or help files where you will find “clip” is in the trimmer.Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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