Movie Rendering

rnadolny wrote on 7/27/2010, 10:43 AM

I am trying to render my movie and it keeps stopping on 6%. I have copy/pasted the whole video into a new file and that didn't work. I deleted the object it stalled on and it still didn't work. I am using Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8.0.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/27/2010, 11:12 AM

Are your source files avchd ? These files will crash vegas in longer, more complex projects. You'll need to transcode your source files with mpeg streamclip or neoscene.
(The same problem occurs with VMS10, so there is no need to upgrade).

rnadolny wrote on 7/27/2010, 11:23 AM

Thanks for the reply. I am actually creating a movie from computer model animations and images. My files are .tif, .jpg, .avi and .mp3. thats all. The video actually gets held up on a text media I have inserted?

musicvid10 wrote on 7/27/2010, 11:26 AM

Convert your TIF and JPG files to PNG first, and keep the size reasonable.
Irfanview works well for batch conversion.

See if this works better for you. It is possible to load up the memory quickly with lots of large stills.

Also, try temporarily deleting the text media from your project to see if that is the issue.
But I'm guessing it's a memory loading problem.

rnadolny wrote on 7/27/2010, 1:53 PM

Thanks, that worked. My images were pretty big, about 17 megs each.

musicvid10 wrote on 7/27/2010, 7:45 PM

A rule of thumb is to keep your stills about 2x the video output dimensions. That way, you have some leeway for cropping and zooming, if you wish, but they're not so large as to clog your system memory.

In the old days, we sized the stills to exactly match the SAR output to retain sharpness. Vegas however, downsamples stills every bit as well as Photoshop, and it's nice to have some wiggle space on the final cropping.