it's many different clips im trying to render. a combination of png files, gif files, avi fieles, mp3 files, and mp4 and mpg files and maybe even more types. it still should all be able to render though

its 1080 widescreen
and im trying to render it as a 8 mbps 1080-30p video wmv file

[I] im trying to render it as a 8 mbps 1080-30p video wmv file[/I]
Why?

Try find out where, meaning at which clip/file the render stops. Mark an area that includes the earlier stop point as a region and try to render that out. If it doesn't work, you have an issue in that area. It can be the original file, GPU acceleration or a missing plug in.

i wanted to render it in 1080-30p because it's HD. i always like for my videos to be in HD and as a wmv file.

and it's not just the area im having problems with. i tried rendering other sections of the video but it still gives me the error message.
it will either:

1.) stop rendering (the percentage won't go up and the rendered frames number under the screen will stop counting, but the countdown time will still keep going down to 0 and then it'll freeze or crash.

2.) give me an error message that says "the error can not be determined"

i wanted to render it in 1080-30p because it's HD. i always like for my videos to be in HD and as a wmv file.

So you've done similar projects in the past and had successful renders?

My first guess would be some sort of memory issue, perhaps with a piece of media on the timeline although it sounds like you're ruling that out. Another possibility might be that it's a GPU acceleration failure, in which case you'd want to toggle that feature.

A workaround might be to render to some other format as an intermediate before going to WMV. It'll eat up disk space but it's temporary. If you wanted to test it you could just try to render out a region that you know is big enough to cause a crash. That way you don't waste a lot of time. Then put that on a new timeline and render *that* to WMV. Maybe render out to any of the templates offered if you were to "Selectively Prerender Video".

I find WMV to be a bit dodgy sometimes, but that's as source media on the timeline. It don't think it plays well with others. I don't really have any experience trying to output it.

Rob

ive only rendered 2 other videos using sony vegas pro 13. they rendered fine.
this is the first one im having problems with but it's different from the last 2 projects i rendered.
this one is made up of a bunch of small avi slips and other image files.

how can i toggle the GPU acceleration feature? is that something that would that be done in sonyvegas?

and i tried rendering it in mp4 but the same thing happened.

Knowing your system specs wild help greatly too. You can switch off GOU acceleration under preferences.

What kind of graphic card are you using?

I FIGURED IT OUT! the GPU thing worked :) thanks so much

Great to hear. It seems like the odds of a GPU rendering logjam go up when you have a lot of varied media on the timeline..

Rob