Problem Rendering to DV NTSC Widescreen Project

jcvmp5 wrote on 6/23/2008, 10:49 AM
I encountered problems rendering a slideshow project to mpeg 2 using DV Architecct NTSC widescreen video stream template with Ultimate S 2.0 photo montage plug in. Pictures were scanned as Jpeg and resized in Photoshop CS2 using DV Widescreeen aspect ratio. Vegas 8.0 hangs and freezes. This problem was encoundred both in desktop and laptop with different versions of Vegas Pro 8.0.

As a workaround, I rendered the slideshow project to AVI. This was fine. The only problem is that this was tedious/time consuming process as I have to render (2) different slideshows first to AVI files then stitch them back in Vegas and then render to mpeg DV Arch Widescreen Video Stream. Both machines have (2) gig of ram with double core intel processors.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

Comments

nolonemo wrote on 6/23/2008, 11:11 AM
More detail needed - size of jpegs? - number of jpegs on timeline?
jcvmp5 wrote on 6/23/2008, 2:47 PM
Nolonemo,

There are 29 pics in the timeline. It freezes on the 15th pics using either a desktop or laptop. I did not check the size of the jpeg file when I first clicked on the DV Widescreen Aspect ratio in Photoshop CS2. Checking the image size now, I've noticed Photoshop resize the pics to 2470 x 3482 and 3620 x 2576 jpeg files, which are large files. Is this size large enough for VEGAS to choke rendering the project. For widescreen project, what will you recommend as the max jpeg image size providing good quality?

This is the second project I have done with these settings. The first project came out without any problems. It was HD quality played on a Toshiba HD30 player fed to an Optoma HD70 projector.

Thanks for your assistance.
goodtimej wrote on 6/23/2008, 4:02 PM
I would say you should shrink down your pictures a little more and save them as .png instead.
jcvmp5 wrote on 6/23/2008, 5:37 PM
Goodtimej, thanks. I never tried saving pictures in png and importing in Vegas. I am still puzzled as it was not a problem before. Could be another issue with Vegas Pro 8 ,which someone mentioned in an earlier post.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/23/2008, 6:08 PM
i use high-res jpeg's all the time. most likely it's a memory issues & png's could very well solve that.

but unless you NEED that detail you're adding unnecessary render time anyway. use something like infraview to bring them down to ~1/2, 1/3rd that size.
jcvmp5 wrote on 6/23/2008, 7:58 PM
Thanks, THeHappy Friar. I will read more on Infraview as this could very well be the easier solution to this problem.
Terry Esslinger wrote on 6/23/2008, 9:38 PM
I believe it is Irfanview.
http://www.irfanview.com/