An error occured while creating

DHM wrote on 7/22/2009, 11:13 AM

I have a project with 5 or 6 QT MOV clips in it, some of which overlap. I have rendered it successfully several times as an uncompressed QT MOV. I added a few more clips at the end and tried to render again, and now get an error message saying An error occured while creating the file; could not create the file. No other info whatsoever.
The drive has >16 GB remaining, there are only three files in the target directory.. no issues I can see.
Vegas 8.0c goes through the entire render process - about 30 minutes - then reports the message only at the very end.
Any thoughts?
Thanks much,Dennis
Dell PW Workstation, XP SP2, 2 GB RAM..

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Former user wrote on 7/22/2009, 11:43 AM

Since this started happening after adding some more clips, I would suspect a problem with one of the clips.

You could try saving another version and eliminate each clip until the problem goes away. Painful, but it works.

Dave T2

DHM wrote on 7/22/2009, 11:54 AM

That could be the problem, but the new clips are just a cupla QT Movies made the same way as the others. Plus the fact that it renders completely then stops and throws up the error - presumably when it is ready to write to disk (does it render in memory?) - leads me to believe there is some type of write problem. Having no info about the error from Vegas is not very helpful..
Best.
D

xberk wrote on 7/22/2009, 12:02 PM

the new clips are just a cupla QT Movies made the same way as the others

Render in sections and see where it fails.