Building Audio Peaks Glitsch Hangup

Jerfilm wrote on 6/28/2010, 7:08 AM

Vegas Pro 8c. Loaded an old veg file in order to re-render it as a bluray. When it came up, it looked fine and I never thought to look to see if the audio peaks had all been built. I went to start the render and the whole thing locked up. 160 of 165 peaks built. Reloaded the veg, it hangs up at 160. Tried the veg.bak - same result. Tried making a copy of one of the clips that hung up and renamed it. Brought it into the project media area and then the trimmer. It won't build peaks for the new clip either. How do I retreive my project? I have a rendered mpg file of the veg but of course it's not in HD. Redoing the entire 25 minute video will take forever. Help!

Jerry Rutledge
Minnesota

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ForumAdmin wrote on 6/28/2010, 12:16 PM

It sounds like the issue could be media-related. You mentioned that you tried renaming the clip, and re-importing, which didn't help. Have you tried importing those troublesome clips into a new project? What is the result?

As a workaround, you could import just the audio from the rendered MPEG and mute or delete the existing audio track, which may allow you to work around the issue.

Hope this helps.

Jerfilm wrote on 6/29/2010, 4:29 AM

Thanks for the suggestions. Sadly, neither of them work. Importing the clip into a new project, it will not build peaks for the audio. So then I went into the original veg file, deleted the audio track completely and imported the sound (which had to be converted from AC3 to MP3 or WAV in order to import it). When put into the trimmer, it will not build peaks for the new sound track. So apparently the veg file itself is screwed up and also appears that the clip that it was working on when I hit "render" is also corrupted.

I will try dropping that clip (and any others beyond it that had not been peaked) and see if that makes a difference. My guess is that it won't. It seems like the whole program is just hung on the peak building sequence and will not come off it. You can't even play the project from the timeline. It's just hung. And there's no option that I can see to "rebuild audio peaks" but I suspect again that it's so hung it wouldn't let you do it even if the option were there.

The sad lesson, I guess, is don't ever start rendering before the audio peaks are built !!!!!

rs170a wrote on 6/29/2010, 4:39 AM

Jerry, don't give up yet.
If you can, post the converted file (WAV is preferable but MP3 is OK) to a site like YouSendIt and let one of us try and get it to work.
If it does, we can send you the .sfk file that you can use, hopefully successfully.

Mike

Former user wrote on 6/29/2010, 6:47 AM

If you don't need to see the audio peaks (which you really don't if you are just rendering an already finished project), you could try cancelling or turning that feature off. Then see if you can render your project.

Dave T2

willqen wrote on 6/30/2010, 1:59 AM

The option to "rebuild audio peaks" is at the bottom of the "View" drop down menu. Sorry that it doesn't help you with your problem.

Will