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Former user wrote on 9/9/2014, 7:43 AM
How long into the render does it shutdown? Possible heat problem?
ushere wrote on 9/9/2014, 8:02 AM
try rendering segments - you could have bad media somewhere....
musicvid10 wrote on 9/9/2014, 8:06 AM
Sounds like heat.
Byron K wrote on 9/9/2014, 1:26 PM
As DaveT2 said, how long into the render does this happen. Does it always happen close to the end?

I just completed project of 6 videos about 10-15 minutes each, One project the render would crash on the very last frame, on another project Vegas would crash about 3/4 of the way through. On the first project, I'd move the end up a couple of frames and Vegas continued to crash at the last frame (This is after a 2 hour render). The other project from the same shoot would randomly crash somewhere around the 3/4 point into the render. This was with GPU on and off.

I ended up rendering each project into two non-compressed .mov sections, which rendered fine, and re-rendering the .mov files to a single .mov then to final .mp4 via Handbrake. Needless to say this took a LOT of time.

I'm still not sure why Vegas was crashing like this on these two particular projects. It may be because these two project are using more Boris RED effects than the other ones. BUT I am using the same Boris RED effects on shorter projects on the same shoot w/ no issues. I didn't have the patience, time and literally did not want to waste the energy to try and render the project again w/ RED turned off.

So, as ushere mentioned, after verifying that heat is not the issue, render out a small section where the crash happens and see if there's a bad clip or effect that's causing the problem.
idovideomn wrote on 9/9/2014, 7:01 PM
Some clips are from DV camera and others from an HD handheld. I can see this being a cause, but it has worked in the past. If it were heat, wouldn't the whole computer shut down? Here, the program shuts down
john_dennis wrote on 9/9/2014, 7:16 PM
"Stops dead, closes down."

The first thing I would look at is the Windows power options. Windows 7 High Performance out of the box default setting for spinning down the hard drives is 20 minutes.

The second thing I would do is "divide and conquer".

Start two instances of the Vegas project.

Select the first half and render in one instance.

Select the second half and render in the second instance.

Go have dinner and drinks.

Come back and see if one of them has failed.

If one and only one fails, divide that segment until you find the source of the problem.

Just because video from that combination of cameras has worked before doesn't mean that one of the clips is not bad this time.
idovideomn wrote on 9/10/2014, 10:56 AM
I got it to work. I changed the project setting back to 16:9. Boom. I feel like a choad
Byron K wrote on 9/10/2014, 1:18 PM
Great! Glad you resoled the issue! (;