Hi,

I'm quite new to Vegas 4, so I need some help.

I have about 1 hour of .avi.
I cropped a litlle bit and added a mask (ref. "How to remove a white line")
Rendered to mpeg2 / DVD PAL.
81% through it crashed, saying something like "unable to write ...".
I was thinking that it might be lack of virtual memory, so I changed the swap page size from 2,3 GB to 4 GB.
Tried again and succeeded (14 hours on a 2.66 GHz machine with 3/4 GB RAM).

Now I took the next 1 hour of .avi and did the same.
Crashed after 12 hours and 90% finished or so, saying "Unexpected error occured" (a message without much help).

Now, did anyone out there experience the same thing, and what was the cure?

Does 14 hours seem normal for rendering 1 hour of video on a system like mine?

I earlier tried Pinnacle Studio and Pinnacle Liquid.
They both crash frequently, but according to other users, that is quite normal,

Reading this forum, however, crashes in Vegas does not seem to be an everyday event. Am I right, or what?

Hoping for some good advise.

Kind regards

An (at the time) frustrated video editor newbie.
Pjs, Denmark