error rendering to mp4

gsmith wrote on 9/10/2014, 9:20 PM

Hello helpful forum members,

I am trying to render a project with AVCHD video to mp4 format to distribute on USB flash drives.
For that I select mp4 and the template "Sony Tablet 1080p". Then I customize the template to lower the bit rate to values of max 12,000,000 bps and average 8,000,000 bps.

However after several hours vms 11.0 platinum displays a dialogue box that there was an error without much useful information.

This has been happening over the last 10 consecutive renders on different projects that I have tried in a week.
The projects are about 2 hours long. And I have rendered even longer projects before without issues.

Can anyone please suggest what could be going wrong or how to collect logs to debug this issue ?

I have had great success in the past, but this has started happening recently without any changes in software, environment on my desktop.

I would appreciate any suggestions that can get me back to rendering my media.

Thanks to all for all your help in advance.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 9/10/2014, 10:55 PM

How big are your successfully rendered files?

gsmith wrote on 9/11/2014, 12:11 AM

One of the files is 6.85 GB in size.

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 9/11/2014, 12:18 PM

Make sure your destination drive is not formatted FAT32 but NTFS instead. The max file size for a FAT32 drive is 4GB, anything bigger will give you errors. Formatting your destination drive (eg a thumb drive) to NTFS will allow you to render to big files. Make sure to back up any files before you format a drive, as this will delete all the information on it.

gsmith wrote on 9/11/2014, 10:12 PM

Thanks Ivan for the response. I double checked and all my drives are NTFS.

As I said earlier, it was all working fine, till all of a sudden some bug of vegas has cropped up, which throws an error while rendering large projects.

I am not getting out of memory error, but the following link gives an explanation which seems to describe an issue with vms 11.0 extremely close if not same as what I am experiencing.

http://geek.theothermartintaylor.com/2011/07/sony-vegas-movie-studio-platinum-render.html

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 9/12/2014, 1:36 PM

Perhaps it is time for you to upgrade... I upgraded from version 10 to 12 and experienced great improvement in overall functionality of Vegas. I'm still using VMS12 and haven't seen the need to upgrade to 13. I'm not an expert at all, but have been using Vegas since version 6. In my experience, with each new release, the performance of the codecs and dlls improve a lot, while the changes on the surface seem minimal. In my opinion, the time you waste on this much more valuable than the price you pay to upgrade VMS. Just my 2 cents, I'm no employee of Sony.

One of the best investments I did was to buy an SSD and install my OS and Vegas on that. Since I did that, and upgrading to Vegas Studio 12 64bit, I haven't had any crashes as far as I can remember.