Crashing when rendering to MPEG2

fwtep wrote on 4/24/2003, 3:16 AM
I have a one hour video file that conistently crashes when I render from the DV AVI to MPEG2 (DVD Arch NTSC Video Stream). I'm running 4b. There are three effects applied to the video-- Brightness & Contrast, HSL Adjust, and Sharpen. The video was captured with the Vegas Video Capture. The file plays fine, both in the Windows Media player and in Vegas 4b itself.

My system is a P4, 2.8ghz Windows XP, with about 30gigs of free hard drive space and a gig of RAM.

I've been using Vegas since Vegas Video 2.0 and have never had this problem. Thanks for any suggestions.

Fred

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SonyEPM wrote on 4/24/2003, 8:54 AM
What are the settings of each of the fx? Post those and we'll try to repro the problem here.
fwtep wrote on 4/24/2003, 12:25 PM
It just worked last night-- fourth time's a charm, I guess. The only difference was that I disabled the monitor powerdown. I'm not sure that's what the problem was though, because the other three times it crashed a few hours after the monitor shut off. But I'll re-render the video again tonight with the same setting, then tomorrow night with the powerdown turned back on and see what happens.

Here are the settings though: It's a 1 hour video and the Brightness & Contrast is set to: Brightness 0, Contrast 0.20, Contrast Center 0.50. The HSL is set to default, except Saturation, which is 1.30. Sharpen is set to .200. Rendering out to DVD Architect NTSC Video Stream.

It also seems to be taking much longer than Vegas Video 3, and I'll check that too. I've never rendered this particular video with that, but I'll try a snippet from it today on both versions.

Thanks for the help!

Fred
Lawrence wrote on 4/24/2003, 3:39 PM
I understand another mainconcept mpeg module OEM that there is a bug in mpeg2 encoder. The fix is only out last week for this sw. This is true for video
more than 40 minute long.
fwtep wrote on 4/25/2003, 2:07 AM
Is this new version available for Vegas users yet?