Been with Vegas since 3.0 as semi-professional users. For us, 8.0/8.0a are a disaster. Maybe. Or maybe its us. Anyway, we are probably going to fail to deliver a project (a presentation for 200 people tomorrow) due to inability to render.
I would like some general guidelines on configuring our system, and general input on best practices of our projects in 8.0a, and any ideas on how to rescue this event.
Information: Project is a football video, lots of parent/child videos over stills, lots of tracks with a single event requiring track motion, multiple audio tracks.
PC is dual processor dual core 2.4ghz with 3gb of ram. One system drive, one firewire 800 maxtor 1.5TB array for project.
Tried many different render options/templates. The one that works best is DVDA NTSC widescreen under Main Concept MPeg2. It takes a grueling hour-and-a-half to render 10 minutes of video - if it stays up. A lot of time it doesn't stay up. When I get a partial mpeg out of it, I figure out the end frame, then restart the render from there.
It works better without asking for audio, so I did that for a while. Then I tried audio render only, and it crashed every time under every format. So I went back to including audio under the DVDA template, and it crashes more. If we had 4 or 5 days I could brute force the project together, but I'm down to 40 hours or so.
I rarely write in because we've done this project type with far less difficulty in 6.0. During project creation in 8.0, we had few gaks, and weren't too concerned about rendering. Live and learn.
BTW, we would gladly engage an experienced professional to visit us in southern California, or set up a go2assist session, and review the details of our work.. I'm sure we aren't using best practices, and seems to be more critical in 8.0. If anyone has a download link to 7.0x, assuming its compatible with an 8.0 project, I'd give that a try; some of you on the board seemed to find that a partial solution. For those of you who aren't laughing too hard, I'd love to hear back.
I would like some general guidelines on configuring our system, and general input on best practices of our projects in 8.0a, and any ideas on how to rescue this event.
Information: Project is a football video, lots of parent/child videos over stills, lots of tracks with a single event requiring track motion, multiple audio tracks.
PC is dual processor dual core 2.4ghz with 3gb of ram. One system drive, one firewire 800 maxtor 1.5TB array for project.
Tried many different render options/templates. The one that works best is DVDA NTSC widescreen under Main Concept MPeg2. It takes a grueling hour-and-a-half to render 10 minutes of video - if it stays up. A lot of time it doesn't stay up. When I get a partial mpeg out of it, I figure out the end frame, then restart the render from there.
It works better without asking for audio, so I did that for a while. Then I tried audio render only, and it crashed every time under every format. So I went back to including audio under the DVDA template, and it crashes more. If we had 4 or 5 days I could brute force the project together, but I'm down to 40 hours or so.
I rarely write in because we've done this project type with far less difficulty in 6.0. During project creation in 8.0, we had few gaks, and weren't too concerned about rendering. Live and learn.
BTW, we would gladly engage an experienced professional to visit us in southern California, or set up a go2assist session, and review the details of our work.. I'm sure we aren't using best practices, and seems to be more critical in 8.0. If anyone has a download link to 7.0x, assuming its compatible with an 8.0 project, I'd give that a try; some of you on the board seemed to find that a partial solution. For those of you who aren't laughing too hard, I'd love to hear back.