Crash during render to new track

JackW wrote on 11/25/2003, 9:06 PM
I'm trying to render a master track (created by Excalibur), two video tracks and an audio track as a single "New Track" -- NTSC DV, AVI -- and every time I try the computer crashes at the same place in the master track and reboots.

I can't see anything wrong on the Master track -- no glitches, no anomalies in the edit, and the entire piece plays perfectly in VV. It just won't render to a New Track or, for that matter, pre-render either.

If I look at the file name under which the New Track was created it shows "0" kb, but if I open the file in VV it's a single track of audio and video, just like you'd expect, and plays up to the crash point, beyond which there is nothing -- no audio, no video.

I'm getting frantic, have to get 70 copies of this project delivered by Sunday. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Jack

Comments

jetdv wrote on 11/26/2003, 4:41 AM
The fact that it reboots often means "hardware". Is it getting too hot? Is it running out of disk space (not only on the render drive but also on the temporary drive and the c: drive)? Make sure you have changed all of the file locations under File - Properties and Options - Preferences.


However, there have also been times when this was media related. Can you render over the bad section if you only start one second before it? Or does it still crash? What if you start 5 frames before it? If it is a bad media file, you may need to recapture it.

Unfortunately, this can be a tough problem to decipher. Try zooming in CLOSE on the timeline at that location and see if there are any visible anomolies.
JackW wrote on 11/26/2003, 5:51 PM
Good call. After making this post I went back to the computer and rendered from the beginning up to about one minute prior to the crash point. Then I went to one minute after the crash point and rendered to the end. I was about to recapture the video, but decided to try rendering the two minutes which contained the crash point. To my delight, it rendered perfectly. I dropped it into the gap and am current running off my duplications. I suspect that disk space and perhaps temp file clutter may be the problem with a very large file. I'm going to explore that issue next.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Jack