CRASH,CRASH,CRASH..so frustrated

CINEMA LEXZIKON wrote on 10/4/2009, 7:03 AM
19 hours of HDV footage loaded. No problem. Music and efx loaded no problem. One of the greatest film openings I've ever created, phenomenal. SONY had me convinced that leaving stupid pay for upgrades Final Cut Studio was the right decision. Now, two weeks of frustration because I cannot get this program to render my project in any format. Mov, avi, mpeg, mpeg2, 2mt. Nothing. I've tried rendering audio and video separately, turned off all programs on my main drive, rendered to an external drive, down converted from HD and now, the render will get 3/4 done and the wonderful crash stops me cold. i am so so tired, and have read every forum and every piece of technical advice on the web. I even have a quad core running 8GB of Ram. I cannot believe that my project has to be put on hold again as I search the web for another editing platform. Really disappointed guys, seriously.

Comments

OhMyGosh wrote on 10/4/2009, 8:02 AM
What format is your original HDV footage in, and what format are you trying to render to, how long is your project, and your intention (web, DVD, etc.) Cin
musicvid10 wrote on 10/4/2009, 9:28 AM
You've got 19 hours of HDV loaded in one project? Even if you are just doing HDV 720, that's over 164 GB of raw footage. That is placing enormous demands on your system memory; I doubt 8G + pagefile would keep up for ever. Yes, it is possible to throw so much stuff in a project to choke your system memory, not the fault of Vegas.

The common wisdom would be to break your project into smaller chunks; you can copy and paste between instances of Vegas. Another approach would be to render out only the segments you know you will be using and take the original media off the timeline.

Another possibility is that you're running out of hard disk space during render -- the output + pagefile + temp files can eat up a hard drive in no time flat and the renderer won't know it until it gets there. Make sure there is plenty of space on your system drive, and render to a separate clean storage drive, and not the same drive your raw footage is on.

You mentioned 19 hours of raw footage -- how long is the finished video intended to be?
Byron K wrote on 10/4/2009, 11:35 AM
19 hours of footage in one project is quite a lot. Maybe you can render the project out to 2 or 3 smaller mpg or avi sections and stitch them together in a separate project.