Are my rendering settings too high

JonSS wrote on 6/22/2009, 7:21 AM
i just purchase Movie Studio Platinum 9 and an running an alienware quadcore with 6gb RAM.

I tried editing a 3 minute avchd clip and rendered to Sony AVC 1920x1080 5.1 sound using the best setting for audio and video. I let it run overnight and it was still at 1% 9 hours later indicating it needs anoth 20 hours. Am I doing something wrong? I let it run again this morning before I left for work and changed the settings to good instead of best.

Thanks

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thereddragon wrote on 6/22/2009, 8:17 AM
Im not an expert so someone can probably tell you better than I can. But I can render a AVCHD video thats 7 min long with editing to WMV in about 45 min. I have a quadcore with 3gb ram. I make it render to the best settings for WMV but I use my vids for youtube
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 6/22/2009, 9:08 AM
That is something far from normal. It is a reported bug in Vegas 9, I think. Do a search here in this forum to read more about it.
wnkinc wrote on 6/22/2009, 9:23 AM
try to use a lower setting,
like animation 320x420, i forget what it is, just waking up here,..
then render it to a higher resolution.. then let me know what happens.
JonSS wrote on 6/22/2009, 4:19 PM
Got home was at 3% after 8 hours. Tried rendering to Blu-ray m2v format at 25mbit/sec and the 3 minute file took only 9 minutes to finish, but this time had no audio. I just selected Blu-ray mpeg2 format. For some reason the Custom button was greyed out.

Edit:
Just found that m2v files do not contain audio. All I want to do is create an HD mpeg 2 file, any recommendations on format. Want to keep the same resolution 1920x1080 5.1 sound .

I have also used Pinnicle 12 and Ulead but none worked well with my Panasonic camcorder.

Thanks
JonSS wrote on 6/22/2009, 6:20 PM
I feel like such a loser. After I installed VMS9 I did not reboot and just went straight to editing and rendering. I did a reboot and then set to render to Sony AVC 1920x1080 5.1 sound and so far so good, the project is rendering pretty quicky (the % countdown is moving) and it shows 18 minutes to render the 3 minute clip ... but then it just crasdhed. Tried rendering to WMV and it crashed again. Sent an email to tech support.