Problem rendering to MPEG2

Mahesh wrote on 9/22/2004, 4:54 AM

I have already posted this problem under a different heading. Hopefully this may provide me with helpful response.

I had no problems using Main concept encoder until 2 days ago.
Rendering in V5 causes the application to freeze.
Rendering in V4 gives me an error message.

No changes to hardware / software since installation of V5 4 months ago.

The OS is Win2k with 2Gb memory.
The PC is on local network but not connected to internet.
The installed applications are V4, V5, DVDA-2 and DVD Workshop. No other apps apart from plug-ins for the above.

Any idea what has gone wrong?

Regards
Mahesh
http://www.crestvideo.co.uk

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 9/22/2004, 6:22 AM

How long is the project? How full are your drives? Any chance of a mem leak with your RAM?
Overheating is a common problem with MPEG renders since it slams the proc so hard.
What happens when you render to other formats?

SonyEPM wrote on 9/22/2004, 6:29 AM

can you render the same project to .avi?

chaser4life wrote on 9/22/2004, 6:54 AM

I am having the same issues as Mahesh. I have been successful in rendering it as an avi. My project is just over 4 minutes long. It always stops at the same point. I have the Sony Checkerboard generated media and added Noise from the Video Event FX at that point. Frame 3081. The clip is 45 frames long. I've tried a bout a half dozen times varying system resources and such, and I get the same results.

AMD XP 3200
1.5G DDR400
XP Pro
Vegas 5.0b Build 160

Edit: I tired a couple more times and this is what I found. I could render the whole video using the SVCD NTSC setting. That is 480x480. I modified the default mpg-2 settings to render at 640x480 and changed nothing else and it froze at frame 3081 again. Thankfully this video is going on a DVD so the size of the avi isn't that big of an issue but not having the mpg-2 work 100% is an issue.

Mahesh wrote on 9/22/2004, 7:57 AM

I do not know how to say this.
On this side of the pond, I would have said 'I feel like a complete Wally'.
The drive I was trying to render MPEG2 was full.
This drive is normally for MPEG2 renders only but I had used it as temporary renders and forgot all about it.

It would have been nice if there was an error message saying "drive full-you fool".