Ok, I finally started to cut this year's vacation - 5 tapes of HDV material.
After my rough cut was finished (app. 90 mins - needs to be shortened of course) I started rendering to get a first impression. Format was MPEG2 in standard definition (for output to DVD).
After about 40 mins into the timeline Vegas 6.0c stopped and told me "The system is low on memory". Tried several times and found out that the stopping point was always the same scene where I used the velocity envelope for the first time.
Ok, my system has "only" 1 GB of memory so I upgraded to 2 GB. Actually I couldn't upgrade the existing memory banks (2 x 512) but had to get fresh ones instead (2 x 1 GB). I killed my graphics card in the process - but that's another story. In the end I payed about 450€ (some $500) for the whole thing.
You can imagine my emotions when I started rendering again only to find out that Vegas 6.0c stopped again - at exactly the same scene with exactly the same error message.
Now I removed the velocity envelope and instead changed the playback rate of the clip. Same result - rendering stopped with the error message saying my memory was too low.
To make a long story short: I uninstalled 6.0c and reinstalled 6.0b.
With this version the rendering worked fine all the way down the timeline everytime I tried. Never saw the error again.
Conclusion: Forget 6.0c...
Hope this helps other frustrated users.
Martin
After my rough cut was finished (app. 90 mins - needs to be shortened of course) I started rendering to get a first impression. Format was MPEG2 in standard definition (for output to DVD).
After about 40 mins into the timeline Vegas 6.0c stopped and told me "The system is low on memory". Tried several times and found out that the stopping point was always the same scene where I used the velocity envelope for the first time.
Ok, my system has "only" 1 GB of memory so I upgraded to 2 GB. Actually I couldn't upgrade the existing memory banks (2 x 512) but had to get fresh ones instead (2 x 1 GB). I killed my graphics card in the process - but that's another story. In the end I payed about 450€ (some $500) for the whole thing.
You can imagine my emotions when I started rendering again only to find out that Vegas 6.0c stopped again - at exactly the same scene with exactly the same error message.
Now I removed the velocity envelope and instead changed the playback rate of the clip. Same result - rendering stopped with the error message saying my memory was too low.
To make a long story short: I uninstalled 6.0c and reinstalled 6.0b.
With this version the rendering worked fine all the way down the timeline everytime I tried. Never saw the error again.
Conclusion: Forget 6.0c...
Hope this helps other frustrated users.
Martin