Hello there,
I have composed a large project with about 8 (3 or more are usually inactive, so 5 at a time) tracks with video effects and such, and was successful with a few crashes. Now, I am trying to render it. The first few seconds of the video (which take minutes to render already) don't have very intense effects so the rendering went through well in that part. At this point, Vegas is already eating up 97% (!) of my RAM, but since I usually render my videos while the PC is idle, I don't mind it.
But when the more intense parts come in, the Windows message comes up and says I am low on memory and Sony Vegas Pro has just crashed, halting my render. I am trying to render in high quality MP4, so I think the problems start from there, but since I don't mind waiting a multitude of hours to render a four-minute video, I thought: "Isn't there a way to make the renders less RAM-intensive and make them slower, so I can actually get the video done?".
So I Googled and I found that others are able to render seperate tracks of their video and make them smaller for Vegas to work with, so the rendering naturally becomes less intensive. But since I have 8 tracks, I don't have the time to come and check the PC to render them separately. I wish it to be done in a single session. Plus, doing that would reduce the video quality further down the line.
So, does anyone know how I could circumvent this crashing issue without having to reduce video quality? I am getting a headache for experimenting for hours with no positive results.
The output I use is Sony AVC/MVC with the settings being:
Audio: 320 Kbps; 48 000 Hz; 32 Bit; Stereo; AAC Video: 59,940 fps; 1920x1080 Progressive; YUV; 26 Mbps Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,000