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JackW wrote on 9/5/2005, 9:03 PM
Steve, when I've experienced crashes in rendering in which the crash occurs at the same place each time, it's usually turned out to be because of some sort of "corruption" in the video. I've solved the problem by splitting the timeline a couple of frames before the crash point and rendering that portion to a new track, dropping a frame or two from the beginning of the second portion and then rendering the second portion to a new track. The two rendered portions can then be recombined.

It's worth a try.

Jack
Grazie wrote on 9/5/2005, 11:18 PM
On the "nose" Jack.

I had a similar "event" where I was really wanting a sequence to be included - it was about 25 frames - about a second. I ended up doing 25 Snapshots at BEST quality, frame by frame. Then separately rendering these 25 STILLS into a separate tiny AVI file. Brought this back into the main project and it work. The client loved it. I got paid! Easy!

Point being, you may not have to jettison even a most troublesome bit of work - make up your own sequence to render out.

Grazie
johnmeyer wrote on 9/6/2005, 12:17 AM
What version of Vegas are you using? Vegas 6 has problems rendering projects that contain a large number of hi-res stills.

Do you have any third party plugins? I know of at least one widely used, free plugin that can crash your computer.

If you do a search on this forum, for the past 30 days, I think you'll find several other things that can cause crashes (as well as advice on how to avoid the problems).
zstevek wrote on 9/6/2005, 3:58 AM
The crashes have occured at different times, one time was near the end of the render and the other was in the middle.

I am using Vegas 6.0b, Boris Graffiti 4 and the ultimate-s 2.0 plugins.