Network Render error

johnric30 wrote on 4/24/2004, 11:57 AM

Hi All,

I have read through the help file, manual and the posts on this site and I believe that I am getting close to performing my first network render. However, when I try to render now, I get the following error. I have checked all permissions, directories for everything I can think of to no avail.
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An Error occurred while creating the media file .
Error 0x80131940 (message missing)

Error Details:
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System.Xml.XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 1, position 215.
at System.Xml.XmlScanner.ScanNamedEntity()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.ParseBeginTagExpandCharEntities()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.ReadNoCollectTextToken()
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadChildren(XmlNode parent)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadElementNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadCurrentNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadChildren(XmlNode parent)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadElementNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadCurrentNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadChildren(XmlNode parent)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadElementNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadCurrentNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadChildren(XmlNode parent)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadElementNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadCurrentNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)
at Sony.Vegas.Vegas.HandleXmlMessage(String msg)

Comments

SonyPJM wrote on 4/26/2004, 8:09 AM

I have never seen this before. When exactly does this error occur?
What is the full path of the project and output file? What options
did you select in the "Render As" dialog and the "Network Render"
dialog?

johnric30 wrote on 4/26/2004, 7:39 PM

Actually, I believe I just found the problem. I had three directories when I really only needed two.

Here's how I had it set up.
Project Directory - d:\my_local_project
Local - d:\render
Univeral - \\mymachine\render (Note: this maps to d:\render)

When I chose "Render As", I was selecting d:\my_local_project as the target render directory. Choosing d:\render (which is what \\mymachine\render maps to) fixed it.