PLEASE HELP? Will not render edited projects

thesmiling666 wrote on 7/20/2010, 2:44 AM
RENDERING STOPS – PROGRAMME FREEZES
Hi Guys
Please PLEASE could somebody help me? I am a total novice. I would like to think I have an idea how to pick programmes up and work on them but if anything goes wrong I have no idea.
I’m gutted… I know it sounds dramatic but I am devastated that my Sony Vegas HD 9.0 Movie Studio WILL NOT WORK!!! I make YouTube videos and recently upgraded my software to Sony Vegas Movie Maker HD …. I can’t go back to Windows Movie Maker now! It would break my heart.
My Home PC Details Intel® Core™ 2 Quad CPU
Q8300 @ 2.50 GHZ 2.5 GHZ 64-bit Operating System
C DRIVE: has 83 GB free EXTERNAL DRIVE: 867 GB free
Everything was working like a dream and I was buzzing with its editing capabilities. I bought an external drive for storage and made sure that my C drive was always 50% empty. To maximise running I followed some instructions from a man called Bill Myers (www.billmyers.com) and this is where it all went wrong. They were simple instructions but for some reason my system has not functioned properly since. Perhaps I made an error? So I uninstalled Sony Vegas but upon re-installation the same problems were there.
He advised to optimise disk space by opening Vegas, Options, Preferences, General Tab and then change the default C Drive by browsing and choosing External Drive (has 867GB free) and then to go into Capture Video, Options, Preferences, DISC MANAGEMNET and ADD FOLDER (External Drive)
Since then the programme will not work. I never make videos longer than 10 min yet they will not Finnish rendering. They stop usually at the same place but can alter and when I have tried rendering it in parts… the same problem. However, I rendered a full project that contained just the files and NO editing… that worked!??? Also some parts of a project will render and some won’t. I thought maybe my card was corrupted so I filmed new material on a new card… same issue.
I have tried to undo this advice but the Capture Video does not take me to the same menu that it did the first time and so I cannot find DISK MANAGEMENT.
I don’t even know if that the reason this is happening. All I know is that I was careful not to make any mistakes. I wrote all my instructions down and I have kept them so I know what I did. I just want to be able to edit and upload videos to YouTube… I’m lost with all the tech jargon and I’m at a loss. I’ve spent hour and hours on this and lost sleep… It’s killing me that I have the amazing footage and amazing edits that are, it seems, never going to see the light of day.
Please… please help.
(Can you tell I was a drama student? LOL)

Comments

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 7/20/2010, 5:21 AM
It is likely that your setup is ok, but the rendering simply crashes due to memory leakage. This is caused by the type of file of your camera and buggy codecs.
So please post information about your camera and the type of files you are editing.
Markk655 wrote on 7/20/2010, 6:05 AM
If rendering is OK without editing, chances are your footage is OK. If you remove the clip where rendering usually stop and then render the entire project again, does it work? That would point to corrupt project (or possibly a cached file).

One suggestion might be to open up 2 instances of VMS (so you click on the icon to run it twice simultaneously). Go the first project, select all, copy. Then in the blank second project (make sure you have already set your project properties) click paste. Try rendering.
musicvid10 wrote on 7/20/2010, 8:15 AM
This sounds suspiciously like a Windows permission issue.

Make sure you are running as Administrator.
Turn off User Account Control if using Vista.
Disable any active Antivirus programs.

You can always go back to the factory defaults by holding Ctrl + Shift and opening the program.
thesmiling666 wrote on 7/21/2010, 3:05 AM
Hi there...Thank you ofr the comment. I take the SD card out of my camera and put it in an SD slot on my computer. I dont know what buggys codes are. Does this help?
thesmiling666 wrote on 7/21/2010, 3:07 AM
Hi there... Ill try that tip. Thank you. I have removed clips where it stuck... no joy. I have tried with new clips from a new SD card... still the same issue.
Markk655 wrote on 7/21/2010, 5:47 AM
Did you try copying/pasting into a new project (see my earlier second suggestion?
thesmiling666 wrote on 7/21/2010, 1:06 PM
Im doing that now. Thanks Mark.
thesmiling666 wrote on 7/21/2010, 2:13 PM
Mark... IT WORKED!!!!??? Oh my God! Haha

You are so clever. Why has this happened? Do you have an idea whats wrong with my programme? I cant beleive it. The second one crashed and I thought oh here we go, there is no way this is going to work... then it went all the way to 100% rendered. WMV

What the heck is going on bro?
Markk655 wrote on 7/21/2010, 7:04 PM
Glad you're smiling...
: )

There was probably a corrupt partially rendered file that Vegas was trying to access or perhaps in the project file itself. Making a fresh start sometimes seems to get rid of those types of errors. Videoediting requires lots of cpu horsepower and lots of number crunching by the computer, so the possiblity for errors is relatively high compared to other less intensive software. At least that is my rationale for why NLEs generally seem to be less stable than the photo-editing software.


That is what I love about user forums. Share and we all succeed. Muscivid just helped me out in another thread.


thesmiling666 wrote on 7/22/2010, 3:43 AM
Excellent Mark...

I cant thank you enough. I have just bought you a virtual pint. This was my first visit to the forums and Im so glad that you have helped me out. I will be living in a perminant state of angst during rendering from now on... but thanks to you I know a way round the problem if it happens again.

Cheers
Markk655 wrote on 7/22/2010, 3:50 AM
Good to hear. If you run into other issues, feel free to drop back in, I am sure someone would be willing to help!