HELP! Rendering troubles!

masmedia wrote on 12/13/2005, 5:37 PM
Hello,

I have a project that I made mostly strictly in Vegas, using elements, effects, etc. mostly right from the program. I've done this before without any problems. Today, I went to render this (it's a music video with just colorful full screen effects, etc. ) and I got an error after about 1% of it was rendered. I also noticed while it was rendering, the video became extremely pixelated. I tried it a couple more times and the same thing happened, then tried to render a section further in the project, which seemed to be fine. Therefore, I figured it didn't like the beginning for whatever reason, where I had used several solid backgrounds. So I replaced these with just one (the gradient pre-made background) and tried again. It seemed to be working, but thought I'd better watch it as it rendered. As it did, it progressively became more and more pixielated to the point of all the color missing because it was so bad. After almost half though, I again got the same error, which said

"An error occured while creating the media file (project name).mpg.
The reason for the error cannot be determined. OK"

As you can see, the only option here is OK, but this is anything but OK! I'm planning on trying moving all the files to a different pc and see if that works, or perhaps... I hate to say it... reinstall the program.
I've restarted Vegas and my PC quite a few times now, and am currently doing a complete system scan (I'm on another pc writing this).
Any help would be much appreciated, because I'm stumped (which probably isn't hard to do, but that's another story!)

Thanks for your help!
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Comments

Serena wrote on 12/14/2005, 3:55 AM
Have you enough space for the rendered file on the disk?
masmedia wrote on 12/14/2005, 5:48 AM
yes, great plenty!
more clues: when I tried just playing it on another computer, the pixelization showed even without rendering, but on my pc, it plays fine, but comes up with that error when rendering. No viruses on my system, either.
Chienworks wrote on 12/14/2005, 5:55 AM
Do you have lots of effects? Try removing the first one (save as a temporary file name!) and then render. If it crashes, put that effect back in and remove the next, etc. You may find some effect or combination thereof that is giving Vegas hissyfits.

Do you have lots of events? Similar to above, but remove the first event and try rendering. If that doesn't work, put it back and try the next. You may have a bad media file that needs to be replaced.
masmedia wrote on 12/14/2005, 6:59 PM
thanks, Chienworks! Yes, I think I must have a bad file somewhere, especailly since it wouldn't render in the other system. And, yes, I do have lots of effects. I'm not sure if it's faster to go through it, or just recreate.