Actually Joe is having the problem when rendering from VP17 so it's not a DVDA issue? What is on the timeline at the problem just under 15mins point? AVC Blu-ray files are interlaced whereas the successful MP4 is presumably progressive. I wonder if that's a clue.

Maybe encoder settings could be useful to show.

Actually Joe is having the problem when rendering from VP17 so it's not a DVDA issue? What is on the timeline at the problem just under 15mins point? AVC Blu-ray files are interlaced whereas the successful MP4 is presumably progressive. I wonder if that's a clue.

You are correct. This is not a DVDA issue. The result is the same when viewing with a media player.

Maybe encoder settings could be useful to show.

I am using the stock Blu-Ray templates for 1080i in both the Sony and Magix AVC codecs.

@JoeAustin
"Recently upgraded to VP 17 build 268."

Are you sure you use build 268?

@JoeAustin
"Recently upgraded to VP 17 build 268."

Are you sure you use build 268?

Oops, not sure how I messed that up. I am on build 284.

I render about a 3.5 hour project out to a Blu Ray compliant AVC file. (...) After just under 15 minutes, the screen is black.

What happens if you render only 16 minutes?

And please post screenshots of encoder settings.

@JoeAustin Its possible that the memory/resource issue in VP17 might just be contributing to this.

I recently had to do a complete copy and paste, all events, from a VP17 project to VP16 to overcome freezing every few seconds. I was then able to complete and finish the same project in VP16.

The jpegs were on the second half of the timeline and the time between freezes was getting shorter and shorter as I continued to edit each jpeg. When it reached the stage of only getting a single jpeg done before the freeze I knew I had to do something.

My project was a mixture of video and stills, jpegs. A fair bit of cross fades, pan and cropping with a large number of jpegs was always problematic with previous VP versions, just much much worse in VP17.

@JoeAustin Its possible that the memory/resource issue in VP17 might just be contributing to this.

I can't help but think it's something specific to 17, as I have done many similar projects in 15 with no such issue.

I can't help (...)

@JoeAustin You can, but you don't:

Maybe encoder settings could be useful to show.

I render about a 3.5 hour project out to a Blu Ray compliant AVC file. (...) After just under 15 minutes, the screen is black.

What happens if you render only 16 minutes?

And please post screenshots of encoder settings.

What happens if you render only 16 minutes?

I totally had intended to do this and respond to your message. I thought it was an good idea. I did finally do this very test.

Sure enough, video goes black at about 14:20 of 16 minutes. I am just using the Blu Ray template 1080 60i. Nothing fancy.

What's on your timeline at 14:20?

What's on your timeline at 14:20?

Good question, and I should have offered this info. So, this is a pretty complex multicam project shot in the default MP4 1080P mode on a mix of Panasonic and Sony cameras. A 3.5 (ish) hour timeline consisting of at least three cameras in multicam mode is then loaded as an embedded project (the old way) in a new instance of VP. Again, it's worth underscoring that the default MP4 "Internet" template works fine. It just costs three or four extra hours in DVDA.

It suggests to me that VP is tripping up converting the source progressive material to interlaced for the avc file. But why it continues right through to the end is puzzling unless from the 14:20 point it's all the same source.

If you select a few secs at say 20:00 and render this, does it also come out black?

It suggests to me that VP is tripping up converting the source progressive material to interlaced for the avc file. But why it continues right through to the end is puzzling unless from the 14:20 point it's all the same source.

If you select a few secs at say 20:00 and render this, does it also come out black?

I did finally try a test like this, and rendered from about the 14 minute mark to the 20 minute mark, resulting in about a six minute video. Plays fine. It's also worth noting that a completely different project of a similar length had the same result. Just under 15 minutes of video, then black.

As I have several of these huge projects to get through, I set a completely different one up for rendering to AVC. Using the Magix Blu Ray template, almost exactly the same result. Black just after 14:20. So frustrating, as it take DVDA quite a few hours to convert a non compliant video. Arggg!

Also worth noting that I submitted a ticket to Magix a week ago. The first response was a canned message about how to render and create a disc in DVDA. Four days ago, I sent a message clarifying that it really has nothing to do with DVDA, and made the issue quite clear. So far, no response. Not good.

Try rendering 16 minutes from the 14 minute mark and see if it goes black at 14:20 into that. Just a suggestion to see if it is a time problem or a content problem.

Try rendering 16 minutes from the 14 minute mark and see if it goes black at 14:20 into that. Just a suggestion to see if it is a time problem or a content problem.

@Former user

Already suggested, already done

I don't see where he said he has done that. He rendered 6:00 from 14:00, but not 16:00.

I don't see where he said he has done that. He rendered 6:00 from 14:00, but not 16:00.

 

Right here: " rendered from about the 14 minute mark to the 20 minute mark"

I don't see where he said he has done that. He rendered 6:00 from 14:00, but not 16:00.

@Former user seriously?

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/black-screen-after-rendering-avc-blu-ray-template--117024/#ca728981

14:00 to 20:00 is six minutes. I was suggesting you render 16 minutes starting at the 14:00 mark.

Yes, seriously. Quit with the attitude, I am trying to help.