Hi Steve,

Thanks for replying. I'm trying to burn a standard DVD that was rendered from the Vegas Pro 10 timeline as an AVI file.

There are 4.00 Gigs of space on my C drive but my project is on an exteral
drive with 369 gigs of free space. Everything is saved to that drive,

I've done this hundred of times before and this just started happening in recent weeks. Sometimes things work fine, other times not.

Another problem happens intermittenly: For instance since I couldn't burn the
prepared DVD I decided to try preparing the whole file again. I started the render and went to do other things including taking a nap. When I returned after 7 1/2 hours I found the render stuck at 32% in video 1.

This is driving me crazy and my work is piling up-with clients complaining.

At this point I'm looking for other options. On this forum I saw posts mentioning using other DVD burning software but I'm reluctant to try that since I've always worked with Architect.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Al

You haven't posted your system specs on your profile, so we can only guess which version of everything you are using.

Is this a typo or is it for real: "There are 4.00 Gigs of space on my C drive"

If this is true, I am surprised that Windows even runs.

Unless you changed the settings in Preferences, Vegas, DVDA (and Windows) uses temp space on the system drive. Typically "C". You need at least 2X your finished file size on the temp drive.

If you really only have 4Gb free on your system drive, then a stuck render is the least of your problems.

Steve Mann

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply. This is the first time I've used this forum and didn't know about posting specs on my profile but I'll do that.

In preferences in the burning tab my temporary files are on my M external drive which has 365,179.7mb.

Thanks

I agree with Steve. You really do need at least 20-30 gigs of free, clean, defragmented space in order for Windows to run well -- particularly when you're running intensive programs Vegas and DVD Architect.

It doesn't matter if you're editing to a second drive. (Although you should also ensure that that drive is formatted NTFS -- and not FAT32 -- and that it should also be clean and defragmented.)

If your second drive is NTFS and you clear off about 20 gigs of space on your C drive, your problems will very likely go away.

(Although rather than porting an AVI to DVD Architect, it's much more efficient to send it a 720x480 DVD-ready MPEG. It will save you a lot of re-compressing and re-encoding.)

Thanks Steve G. and Steve M.

I've been working on clearing my C drive and got it up to about 8 gigs. I'll keep working on that. I'm going to try to burn again. I'll let you know what happens.
Thanks again.

Hi Guys.

Well I finally got iy to burn after doing a full render/prepare again. I really don't know what mde it work this last time. I deleted a bunch of files from my C drive but only got it up to 8 gigs. In deleting programs I must have deleted
the program that allowed me to play DVDs in my computer.
I say this because when I tried to play the burned DVD in my DVD drive it doesn't play. When I open it I see the audio_TS, video _TS files.
I can play the burned DVD in other DVD layers apart from the computer.
Does anybody know the program that I need to play the DVD in my computer?

Thanks again.
Al

You must have something that includes an MPEG2 decoder so that Windows Media Player can then play it. Presumably to save paying royalties, Windows does not come with its own MPEG2 decoder. Have you uninstalled anything that might include an MPEG2 decoder?

Anyway, you can install VLC Media Player for free. It has its own decoders built in.

http://www.videolan.org/