Help, Border Blur does not render..

Pakari wrote on 9/28/2004, 10:59 PM
Hi..

Does anybody know why when I render to mpeg2 or even quicktime, any images used with the border fx ( blurred (feather)), they do not work. When I see the preveiw render (while the movie is rendering) i can the image has no fx and has a clean cut line, instead of the feather I wanted..
I have vegas 5, pen 4, 3 GHZ, with 1 gig ram...this has happended before, but now it's really cheesing me off..

any help would be appreciated..

do i have render portions to new tracks, then render as one...i don't think i should have to...

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Grazie wrote on 9/28/2004, 11:40 PM
When I have issues around MPEG, I first render to AVI then to MPEG. Try this out on an istsy-bitsy piece first - yeah? Reson here is that a lot a of maths IS going on to do the FX and then you asking it to convert to MPEG within the same render . . . only my 2 pennies worth . . .

Would be neat if you come back with your results . . bad or good . .it would helps us all - yeah?

Grazie
Pakari wrote on 9/28/2004, 11:55 PM
Cool..will try..thanks
It is a fairly complex piece. A 3d spaceship flying around in space, passing by photos...theres lens flares, feathered borders, pans crops, transitions & several quciktime files out of after effects..it seems to happen towards the ender of a render. i guess when the processor has had enough..
Becasue I don't have much room left on my hard drive, i'm trying quicktime to render to new track in 15 sec chunks...then a final render to mpeg2.
But i will try avi, and see how that holds up. It would be nice to do it in one hit, instead of baby sitting the thing...

Will post here my results...cheers
Grazie wrote on 9/29/2004, 12:01 AM
OPh! . .yeah I guess that'll do it! WOW! .. . Anyways, just render to avi that which is giving you the grief. You say it is at the end. Then just do this part. THEN bring this part back in. At least you will have islotaed the issue area AND will have a no-problem section to fit back in. Now if it falls over again, then this points to something ELSE being the cuklprit. My guess it is the Humungus amount of maths being processed . . yeah?

Get back good buddy!

Grazie
Grazie wrote on 9/29/2004, 12:11 AM
. . I ust add that I had not a dissimilar issue in April. I had losta stuff going on . . 3Ds and twists .. HEAVY featehred borders .. . star fields . . colour curves and NEG/Blacks etc etc . .. it kept falling over .. what I HAD to do was firstly islotae excatly which area/section was giving me the grief and do Frame:Frame Snapshots of each frame . . oh yes . .. ! Then I strung these together on the T/L and THEN rendered this 3 second piece [ maybe 40 odd stills .. I didn't do ALL 25FPS frames .. life's to short ! ] I did make dissolve overlaps on those groups of frames that had some "meat" in them, and finally produced the the necessary . .it worked .. the clienbt loved it . .. sigh of relief .. .

Sometimes I think I/we can get a bit "purist" about our approach to this DV:IT stuff - wanting it to work the way we want/expect it to work .. well .. relax . . undo yer belt and just get the job sorted . . and maybe just maybe I will be able to spend more time on the creative side .. yeah?

Grazie .. .
Pakari wrote on 9/29/2004, 12:30 AM
Sheesh...! Although i can see that happening..frame by frame hey...keep that in mind..painful..but get's the job done...my stuff always seems to need tweeking and inventing round about ways to get the end result...i expect alot from myself and my pc...it shows in my work...but can be quite stressfull..
Thanks for your help...let you know it goes..
Grazie wrote on 9/29/2004, 1:51 AM
Koool . .! Grazie