Freezing during rendering - changed psu, hsf, defragged....ARGH!!!

skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 6:57 AM
The title about says it all. I am trying to render a 45 minute video and have been having problems. I recently changed my psu and hsf after reading some of the problems people were having with regard to over heating - i think that problem is solved now.

But, I am still getting freezing at the same place everytime i try to render the video. It's about 2 minutes in...

Here are the spec on my computer (and I have successfully rendered videos in the past):
Athlon XP 1900+
ASUS A7N8X-E Delux
512 MEG PC-2100 DDR 184 PIN long DIMM
WD 160 GB 7200 RPM ATA Hard Drive (Primary)
SEAGATE 200 GB 7200 RPM ATA Hard Drive (Secondary)
NEC 2510 DVD Drive
GeFORCE 2 MX400 64MB AGP VIDEO CARD
PANASONIC 1.44 FLOPPY
THERMALTAKE A1889-01 CPU HEATSINK & FAN
ENERMAX EX375P-VE 370W NOISETAKER

Just removed:
ECS K7S5A 266 MHZ Motherboard
Maxtor 60 GB 7200RPM ATA133 Hard Drive (was Primary)

I have checked my defragging, but am told bythe system that a defrag is not necessary. Maybe delete temp files?? Where do I specifically go to delete them?

Any other suggestions?

I am seriously going to DIE without VV!!!

Comments

skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 7:09 AM
Current Temp settings:
MB 33C/91F
CPU 60C/140F

...a little high, but not at a dangerous level. AMDs should run a bit higher, from what i have been told.

I will be around all day today - if you guys have any suggestions, i'm all ears!
DGrob wrote on 1/28/2005, 8:35 AM
If you're freezing at the exact same point every time, you should open your project and zoom down to the frame level to see what's going on. I once had a similar problem and discovered a blank frame at that point which was generated because I had not "quantisized to frames."

Darryl
skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 8:56 AM
Nope it is in the middle of a track (audio/video)...

It is not in between two video sessions or anything...



JJKizak wrote on 1/28/2005, 9:39 AM
I would go to that exact same spot and expand the timeline out to max. Highlight a small area and render just that section to see if it works. If so try another render with the taskbar activated showing how much memory you are using. You might be running out of memory. Make sure all of your spyware and virus stuff is off. Check your page file setting.

JJK
logiquem wrote on 1/28/2005, 11:26 AM
Maybe it is too basic, but anyway...

What's your file system? Are you working with NTFS?
skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 12:49 PM
How can I check my virtual memory?

What is my page file setting??
skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 12:56 PM
my c drive is running VV. It is FAT32.

I am rendering to my d drive which is NTFS.

I am using Windows XP as my OS
nickle wrote on 1/28/2005, 1:51 PM
Why not troubleshoot the easy way?

Select a 10 minute region at a point later than the problem area and see what happens

Render to the C: drive instead of D: and see what happens

It sounds like a problem with the clip.
skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 2:16 PM
OK, a couple of things...

Correction on one thing. The project is 'residing' on my d drive (ie. .veg file)

I tried to render to my C: drive, but it froze at the same point.

I attempted to render a part immidiately after the point where it froze. It worked. The strange thing is, there is absolutely nothing different about the part where it is freezing.

I removed the one clip that is causing problems, and it seems to be working fine (so far!)

Will let it continue to render and see what happens... I am past the 2% mark, so am extatic...

This is very, very strange...bizzare...
skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 3:19 PM
Now it froze at 46%, but the crappy thing is, the screen is white and I don't know exactly which clip caused the rendering to freeze...

Any other suggestions?
skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 3:25 PM
OK, skip the last question...I can simply go to the last point where the avi was rendered.

THis is just really, really frustrating. I have no clue what is causing the clips to freeze during rendering....
JJKizak wrote on 1/28/2005, 3:29 PM
Usually the first thing Vegas does is loose the viewer and the thumbnails when memory chokes out. Do you have any stills on the timeline? Also I think I would make sure my drives were the same (FAT-32 or NTFS) but that may be irrellavent. You might try rendering about that area to avi then import the avi file and sub it and remove the old section then try rendering again.

JJK
JJKizak wrote on 1/28/2005, 3:30 PM
Usually the first thing Vegas does is loose the viewer and the thumbnails when memory chokes out. Do you have any stills on the timeline? Also I think I would make sure my drives were the same (FAT-32 or NTFS) but that may be irrellavent. You might try rendering about that area to avi then import the avi file and sub it and remove the old section then try rendering again.

JJK
nickle wrote on 1/28/2005, 3:34 PM
If you are rendering to your Fat32 drive (c:) it will stop at 4 GB limit.

I don't think you mentioned what format you are rendering to.
skanji wrote on 1/28/2005, 7:34 PM
I am rendering to MPEG1...

It froze a couple more times on me tonight...

I am just removing the clips one by one.

This is not good at all. But unfortunately, I have a ton of MOV's and .jpg that can only be put together using VV. I don't know of any other software that handles quicktime files to well...