Stephen Mann
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You can’t put 32-bit video on a standard DVD. A DVD is 8-bit MPEG2. Anything else gets re-encoded. Use the DVDA template and your MPEG file will be DVDA ready.
A long time ago, Version 8 or 9, I think, “render as” would sometimes stop as you describe. I discovered that I had some unused media in my project. Go to the Project Media window and click on the lightning bolt icon to remove unused media.
Steve Mann
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New RAM wouldn’t help. The Crucial software is pretty good about determining what motherboard your PC has, so if it says you can only have 4Gb, then believe it. RAM doesn’t get worn out, but programmers tend to write for the most recent hardware. Yours is what? Ten years old? I think you have reached the limits of what your ancient PC can do.
No 32-bit OS can access over 4 gigs of total memory (including video RAM, caches, addresses reserved by devices, and last but not least system RAM). Usually it leaves about 3-3.5GB for the programs.
This is due to address space. A 32-bit OS uses 32-bit integers for memory addresses and hence is only limited to 4,294,967,296 bytes of memory. A 64-bit OS uses 64-bit integers and hence is limited to about 6.8 million terabytes.
I’ve never used PAE (Physical Address Extension) because I upgraded to a 64-bit system as soon as I could. PAE is a workaround for the 32-bit memory limitation. It extends the addresses to 36-bit providing a limit of 64GB. It can’t make a single application able to use more than 3GB of RAM (unless the app supports PAE which is very very unlikely), but when you run many apps at the same time, they can use max 4GB each. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
It’s time for a new PC.
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How does the crash present? Is there an error message or do the lights in the room dim? Does the computer meltdown or does Vegas just stop, exit or blue-screen?
Find and run CoreTemp while performaing a “Render As”. Encoding is processor intensive and it your PC is overheating it could be shutting down.
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since the recommended RAM for vegas 9 is 2GBIf you max your pagefile size and still get the low memory error, then you really don’t have enough RAM. The MINIMUM RAM for Vegas 9 is 2Gb. More is always better. A PC with 4Gb of RAM is already on the hairy edge of failure, especially if you haven’t removed all of the crapware that comes with your store-bought PC. (Google “DeCrapify.) You can’t force any program to use more or less RAM than it needs, but you can kill any unnecessary programs, especially your web browser, which consume a lot of PC resources (freeing the resources for other programs to use).
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Just leave the minimum where it is. If you want a static pagefile, make the min and max the same value.
You don’t need a new PC to get Win7, you just buy the Win7 upgrade and install it.
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So *you’re* the one person still running Vista?
Seriously, Windows 7 is far better than Vista for memory management. (Windows 8 sucks overall). And 4Gb of RAM is pretty small, so I am not surprised that you get out of memory errors. Most of the memory manufacturers web sites have a tool that you can click on to determine how much memory your PC can handle. Just Google PC Memory. (Personally I like Crucial memory).
Go ahead and bump the maximum pagefile to the recommended value.
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“…so do I need to change it back afterwards, or is there any problems that could be caused by changing this?”
None at all. Adding RAM is the best way to increase your memory available to commit, but the larger pagefile inly reserves more disk space for paging.
Steve Mann
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Yes, but not the other way around.
If there’s any chance you will want to open the project in Version 9 again, make a copy to work in Version 12 (I.E., copy ‘myproject.veg’ to ‘myproject12.veg’, and open the project12 file in Version 12.)Steve Mann
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What format did you encode to? I recommend the investment into CD Architect which does a really good job of making an Audio CD.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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!Sigh!
It’s time for another referral to the explanation that you could have easily found by searching for “Low Memory”.https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/940494
Steve Mann
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com