What is your amount of available Memory?
Which driverversion exactly is used for the GPU RTX?
What are your projectsettings? >> screenshot
What are your sourcefiles?>> MediaINfo
What is your exact (customized?) rendertemplate?>>screenshot

my available memory is 3047 GB. It's an external HDD. Forgot to mention that. The software is installed in my SSD which i have 721GB of space remaining.

My driver version is 452.06

Sorry but the media info is not available. I downloaded it but i can't find the project I'm currently working on.

@Juan-Garcia The latest Studio driver is 456.38. You can download it from within VP ... \Help\Update drivers, or use the "Geoforce Experience" app.

The mediainfo info. for the clips you are using is essential, a common problem is using Variable frame rate clips from smartphones. If its from a camera then its not likely to be VFR, should be constant frame rate, CFR.

I would use the more modern render options ...

my available memory is 3047 GB. It's an external HDD.

That looks impossible to me, that is not your memory but your extra amount of storage for files a.s.o.
For your Memory ( available and possible amount) rightclick on your Windows Toolbar and choose "Task Management>Performance" , there I can see this under Processor. Look how it is on my laptop


You try to render with an old codec, nothing wrong with, but there are newer and better ones. Look f.i. at Magix AVC, what are there your possibilities/templates?

@Juan-Garcia Just to be clear, Mediainfo is a free app, you can download it from inet.

i took your advice. i updated my GPU to the latest version. I'm now rendering my video and so far so good. Hopefully it remains as good as its going. I'll you guys know. Thanks for the help as well.

nah its still the same. It still freezes at 98%. I see that this has been an issue for years and Sony hasn't done anything about it. Disappointing.

@Juan-Garcia You give up easily.

#1 Did you try rendering using the render template settings I posted earlier?

#2 Have you downloaded the Mediainfo app yet, so as to post your video clip properties?

“Sony hasn't done anything about it.” VP is now owned by Magix.

oh wow i didn't know that. I guess I'm used to calling it Sony vegas. but no I haven't. I'm hoping thats key to all this rendering issue. I'll let you know.

@JN- i just tried it again. This time it was on the template you suggested. It still froze on 98%. Also i downloaded mediainfo. The issue is i can't get to my project i search for it. None of my projects are available.

See what clip is at the end of your project. Try rendering just that one to a diff. format like Magix Intermediate and replacing it.

The issue is i can't get to my project i search for it. None of my projects are available.

If not, what are you trying to render over and over again?

If not, what are you trying to render over and over again?

 

@j-v - Yes. @Juan-Garcia Please use MediaInfo to tell us what your Media is?

this is what I'm trying to render. i hope this is what you guys need.

this is what I'm trying to render. i hope this is what you guys need.

The Mediainfo all of us needs is the info of the source file you are working with, in this case the '1st - debate - debate ....' (file extension .MP4?)

For easier question, where this source media coming from? Is it downloaded from Youtube? or recorded through a TV recorder?

Advice on how to post MediaInfo in section 1 here: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

@Juan-Garcia There are a few small things that are tried and tested, and sometimes do fix the issue, or help to isolate the issue ...

#1 Set Dynamic Ram Preview to zero, Options/Preferences/Video Tab/

#2 Supply the mediainfo of the clip(s) ~ the spot where the render freezes is certainly a help, not the mediainfo of the project file.

#3 Make sure that the source clips are ideally on a local drive, internal to the PC, not external.

#4 Updating to the latest gpu driver, you’ve already done that.

#5 Zoom in to ~ 97% on the timeline and see if you have some VFX applied there than you can temporarily remove, it may be causing the problem.

#6 Replace the media clip(s) at the project problem location by converting to intermediate file(s).

#7 See if you can render the last 10% of the project by creating a loop region, if so maybe save as an intermediate file, or at least a high data rate clip. Then replace the last ~ 10% with this new piece.

#8 See if you can render the project from start up to about 95%

#9 If it turns out that the media is Variable frame rate, convert it to Constant frame rate.

#10 Make sure that you open the window first.

dynamic ram is at 0 now.
this the clip you needed to see. Its just 1 clip.

It was externally, now I'm to test the render on a ssd with is the internal one.

When i click on the VFX icon, it turns the video preview off. I'll turn that off then.

#6 I dont understand what you mean. I don't know how to do that.

I rendered the last 10% of the video and it rendered perfectly under 3 minutes.

I tried rendering the video on constant frame rate instead of variable and it only render 16%. Usually it renders up to 98%. Don't know why it only rendered up to 16 this time.

The video source is coming from a capture card called Elgato. Recording gameplay/video from the ps4, xbox, and pc.

We need the mediainfo for the video files you're working with. Not the vp project. Not the sfk. The mp4, avi or whatever else you're using.

ok this should do it. hopefully

Does it freeze rendering any media, or just that clip? If it's just that clip, we can try to convert the clip to another format first. Download an app called handbrake, load that mp4 file you gave us the mediainfo for above, and convert it to another mp4 file. Then go back into VEGAS, and in the project media window, find the original .mp4 file and right click on it. Go to "replace" in the menu that appears, and then load the new file you just encoded with handbrake. This will rule out file corruption causing any issues.

Another thing you can try is going into preferences, under the file i/o tab, and check "use legacy decoder". You want this to be a last resort, as the legacy decoders aren't as good, and can't do 10 bit or higher video (the vast majority of the stuff you're going to be working with will be 8 bit, though, so it isn't as bad as it may seem. Your clip above is 8 bit). There's still an occasional few bugs with the new decoder, though, so that is why they left the option there to disable it when it is causing issues.

@Juan-Garcia What I mean by #6 is really similar to #7. In other words, #6 is really redundant, ignore it and try #7.