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For reasons unknown but possibly due to the data drive being fragmented and nearly full, several recent short but complex Vegas edits simply disappeared. No VEG file no VEG BAK files. Some music files disappeared too. I can recover the music files

Video

5 answers, most recent on 3/31/2005

anyone having trouble with mpeg 2 and Vegas 5d?

I've been doing some extensive trouble shooting and, for me, Vegas 5d's mpeg 2 encoder is not a happy camper. I can't render to mpeg 2 for any length of time (about 240 megs) without an error message popping up: "An error occurred while creating

Video

36 answers, most recent on 3/30/2005

RE: render HDV to m2t file creates an error message

Well the Cineform HDV to Cineform Avi worked fine... ...but rendering the Cineform Avi to m2t failed, my friend the error message said: "An error occurred while creating the media file avi to hdv mpeg 2 m2t file try 1.mpg. The reason for the error

Video

No answers, created on 2/23/2005

MPEG-1 Default Template Won't Render

Trying to render out a 1:45 long silent video of a series of time lapse jpegs to the default template MPEG-1 that makes 720x480 sized frame. It renders 10 seconds of the video then stops. An alert comes up with "Sony Vegas 5.0 An error occurred

Audio

3 answers, most recent on 1/17/2005

RE: Bug List for Vegas 5

1. Metronome bug, as drbam mentions above. Much talked about on this forum and it’s been around for way too long; there's no excuse about this one. 2. Not 100% strictly a bug - but certainly a change in functionality that occurred with Vegas 5

Video

4 answers, most recent on 1/16/2005

Problems setting up network rendering.

I have two high-tech PCs. Both have Vegas5 installed. I ran the Network Renderer (NR) on the "slave" PC and it seems to be in the READY state. I ran the Network Renderer (NR) on the "Master" PC and it too looks OK, but I don't think they are seeing

Video

3 answers, most recent on 1/15/2005

Cannot Render using Sheer Video Codec

I really want to use the Sheer video (www.bitjazz.com) codec when rendering because It cuts disk usage in half, it retains alpha info, and is cross platform compatible. Vegas however refuses to render any Quicktime movie with this codec. It will

Audio

5 answers, most recent on 12/27/2004

RE: Error: Audio proxy file has been truncated

All, Just got Movie Studio for Christmas ... I reviewed most of the major packages available ... and it seems to work really well ... until I started to import some older video that I wanted to "improve". I received the same audio trunctation

Video

9 answers, most recent on 8/20/2006

BUG REPORT: Create Subclip, "Error occurred while creating proxy file for a stream"

Software version: Vegas Video 5.0a build 134 Recreatable: Yes, 100% Problem: missing audio tracks on subclips Description: Select a range of footage in the trimmer. Right click, select "Create subclip...". NB. Video & project files etc are

Video

5 answers, most recent on 12/3/2004

Error message 0x8000705aa

When I want to print to tape I get the following message. An error occurred while creating the media file. 0x8000705aa (message missing) I tried another project that I printed to tape successfully a few days ago and now I get this message there too.

Video

One answer, on 11/26/2004

MPEG1 Rendering Problems

Whenever I try to render my project as MPEG1 using the default template (720x480) rather than VCD NTSC it craps out with the message "An error occured while creating the media file blahblah.mpg. The reason for the error could not be

Audio

5 answers, most recent on 12/27/2004

Error: Audio proxy file has been truncated

I've recently transfered a DVCAM tape to disk, and on loading it into Vegas 5 (PC), soon after the software begins to build its audio peaks, I get the following error: ------------- An error occurred while creating a proxy file for a stream. The

Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

8 answers, most recent on 11/18/2004

RE: Long Rendering/Unable to Mix Audio

Thanks for your help - here is what I have so far, and will follow up with another post: I created the DV-AVI file per your suggestion, and received a new message - "An error occured while creating the media file. An error occurred writing the

Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

8 answers, most recent on 11/18/2004

Long Rendering/Unable to Mix Audio

Hope someone can lead me to the promised land - I finally finished building my first video, which was originally started with Screenblast 3.0, then upgraded my software to Movie Studio 4.0, and finished up some items in my video. The video contains

Video

No answers, created on 10/23/2004

Codec Problem with copy and trim save as option

I am using V4.0 I have one clip on the timeline I have trimmed it to get just that part of the clip I want to use I select save as and tick the "Copy and trim media with project box" I have the ignore 3rd part CODEC box ticked in preferences When I

Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

One answer, on 9/27/2004

Another error

I captured a VHS in AVI with Pinnacle Studio, then I created a new project in VMS4. At the end of the rendering I got the following message: "An error occured while creating the media file. Unable to mix audio. The operation timed out." What the

DVD Architect

2 answers, most recent on 9/21/2004

Unable to save markers to media file

I have a rather simple DVD project... one movie, plus an options menu. I have created a total of 38 chapter markers for the movie from within DVDA2. When I click on the Save Markers button, I get an error pop-up with the following message: "An

Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

One answer, on 9/19/2004

Rendering Audio Failure

When rendering a video I get the following message: "An error occurred while creating a media file..Unable to mix audio. The operation timed out. Needless to say the rendering completely tanked. The original file was an MPEG format imported

Vegas Movie Studio (up to ver. 17)

3 answers, most recent on 9/15/2004

Rendering Problem; Video Factory

Hi, I tried to render a project twice to avi. Each time I get the following message: "An error occurred while creating the media file college tour.avi" "An error occurred writing the file. Make sure you have write access to the file/folder and that

Video

4 answers, most recent on 7/27/2004

strange image size needed

I am creating a Windows Media piece that is 180 x 134. I started the project with those setting in the properties. When rendering the project (15 second piece), I chose keep project settings. I received an error message, "An error occured while

Video

9 answers, most recent on 7/5/2004

Print to tape problems

When printing to tape at the very last part of the process a screen comes up and 1 of 2 messages come up: 1; error occurred while creating media file error 0x8007001f (message missing) OR 2. an invalid argument was specified. I sent an e-mail

Video

2 answers, most recent on 5/18/2004

Low Memory? - Close other apps?

An error occurred while creating the media file (name). The system is low on memory. You may be able to reduce memory usage by closing other applications. cxAlloc = 720, cyAlloc = 480, cBuffersAllocated = 1 ESP[00] = 0895A4B8 ESP[01] =

Video

5 answers, most recent on 5/18/2004

Pre-Render Error

This is a message I get everytime I open more than one instance of Vegas and try to prerender both at the same time. (Obviously the file number changes for each error message.) "An error occurred while creating the media file Vegas Prerendered

Video

2 answers, most recent on 4/26/2004

Network Render error

Hi All, I have read through the help file, manual and the posts on this site and I believe that I am getting close to performing my first network render. However, when I try to render now, I get the following error. I have checked all permissions,