Like several others before me, I have been getting the "unknown error" that occurs during creation of media file xx.mpg. This always happens during rendering, and at a specific point.
Here are my ststem stats:
PC: Dell 2.8GHz Pentium
OS: Windows XP Home (Latest)
Memory: 1G RAM; 100G+ Hard disk (not running out of space)
Vegas version: 5.0b
Project settings: Default! Rendering using Best setting for Mpeg1 (although good also fails)
My project consists of several AVI files strung together (nothing fancy at all). The files were all created by a freeware program called CamStudio. It performs real time screen captures. Every file was created with this same program. I have narrowed down the failure to a single file; when it renders this particular file, it gives the message. There is nothing special about this file; it is mid-sized of all the files. In fact, I can render this file in a clean default project all by itself, and I will get the error. I can even send it to you if you want to try it in your project (it is about 300Mb). If I render the file alone, it fails at a specific point (give or take 50 frames). If I render a small portion just around the failure point, it renders FINE. I have monitored CPU usage and memory usage, and the PC is never getting stressed.
Before you suggest it - I tried re-capturing the same footage with CamStudio. The new file fails exactly the same way. To me, it seems to be the content that is causing Vegas to throw up. If I had to compare this content to the rest of the AVI files, I would say that this particular capture has more movement involved. You can see the video that I intended to capture on the web. It is at:
http://themeparks.universalstudios.com/orlando/hhn/2004/fly_through.html. I set up CamStudio to capture just the video. I ran the Windows Media Medium quality video. If one of you has a real-time capture tool, perhaps you could go to the site, try to capture it yourself, and see if you get an error during MPEG1 rendering. I don't think Vegas supports web capture - am I wrong?
By the way, I know I was capturing copyrighted video. The purpose was to archive it on my own CD, as the website will be gone in a couple of months. Could it be possible that they (Universal) inserted something that causes tools like vegas to fail? The rest of the files I captured were all from this site as well.
This message is by far the most detailed regarding this problem, so I'm hoping someone can help.
Thanks Gurus!
Here are my ststem stats:
PC: Dell 2.8GHz Pentium
OS: Windows XP Home (Latest)
Memory: 1G RAM; 100G+ Hard disk (not running out of space)
Vegas version: 5.0b
Project settings: Default! Rendering using Best setting for Mpeg1 (although good also fails)
My project consists of several AVI files strung together (nothing fancy at all). The files were all created by a freeware program called CamStudio. It performs real time screen captures. Every file was created with this same program. I have narrowed down the failure to a single file; when it renders this particular file, it gives the message. There is nothing special about this file; it is mid-sized of all the files. In fact, I can render this file in a clean default project all by itself, and I will get the error. I can even send it to you if you want to try it in your project (it is about 300Mb). If I render the file alone, it fails at a specific point (give or take 50 frames). If I render a small portion just around the failure point, it renders FINE. I have monitored CPU usage and memory usage, and the PC is never getting stressed.
Before you suggest it - I tried re-capturing the same footage with CamStudio. The new file fails exactly the same way. To me, it seems to be the content that is causing Vegas to throw up. If I had to compare this content to the rest of the AVI files, I would say that this particular capture has more movement involved. You can see the video that I intended to capture on the web. It is at:
http://themeparks.universalstudios.com/orlando/hhn/2004/fly_through.html. I set up CamStudio to capture just the video. I ran the Windows Media Medium quality video. If one of you has a real-time capture tool, perhaps you could go to the site, try to capture it yourself, and see if you get an error during MPEG1 rendering. I don't think Vegas supports web capture - am I wrong?
By the way, I know I was capturing copyrighted video. The purpose was to archive it on my own CD, as the website will be gone in a couple of months. Could it be possible that they (Universal) inserted something that causes tools like vegas to fail? The rest of the files I captured were all from this site as well.
This message is by far the most detailed regarding this problem, so I'm hoping someone can help.
Thanks Gurus!