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Caruso wrote on 4/8/2001, 6:25 AM
Tech support reads theses messages.
So do a lot of other savvy non-SF users of the product.
I am not savvy, but might offer my own humble suggestions
if I more fully understood your problem and if you provided
more info.

What operating system are you using? Are you saying that
the rendering stops short of the end of your project?

Is you project longer than, say, 18 minutes or so?

If it is, and if you are running a FAT32 setup, rendering
of avi files is limited to approximately 18 minutes due to
a Windows FAT32 file size restriction. You'll have to
render any footage beyond that limit as a separate avi file.

Don't know if this answers your question, but thought I'd
try.

If you want evidence of tech support on this board, check
for the replies from one "SonicEPM" or "SonicEDM" or
something similar (I always forget the last three letters).

This board is a bit clunky to use (messages always in
reverse, topics in reverse, etc), but there is a helpful
spirit here.

Good luck.

Caruso
jonathanbmi wrote on 4/8/2001, 9:11 PM
Thanks...

sorry for sounding snooty, very frustrated that's all, love
the sonic stuff..

anyway, op is win 98..
Video Vegas, latest build,
1 video track (MOV file)
1 track audio

total time 1:32
One Minute, thirty two seconds........
when I render to a mov file, it goes along rather well....
taking about 10-14 minutes (p3 1.0 ghz)..however, when I
get to the end of the render file, it keeps going...then it
starts getting slower and goes from 4 mintues left to 5,
then 7, then 8...then 12...ugggg...

thanks,

also tried selecting a loop region as well...same results

thanks
SonyEPM wrote on 4/9/2001, 10:24 AM
Vegas 2.0d made a change to the quicktime plug-in that may
fix this for you. I believe the stall you are seeing is
occurring during the flattening process- takes forever
(does the same thing in Media Cleaner). We now have a
better progress indicator.

jonathanbmi wrote on 4/9/2001, 3:58 PM
I have the latest build d and it still hangs...

please advise..

thanks

Caruso wrote on 4/10/2001, 4:19 AM
johnathon:
After you have selected the loop region, and clicked Render
As, there should be a little box with a check mark in it
showing that the option to render loop region only is
active. When I have set a loop area, my system defaults to
the checked box, but, it sounds as though, for some reason,
you don't have this box checked.

The rendering process should stop at the end of that looped
section.

I remember having a problem with this in earlier versions
of the program, and the thing would render blankness until
the avi size limit was reached.

I would experiment (as you probably have already) with very
small regions of your project to troubleshoot this.

Good luck.

Caruso