Quicktime render goes from 0 to 100% but nada

fwtep wrote on 12/3/2011, 9:14 PM

Today, after a few weeks of not using my system, when I try to render to Quicktime, it instantly goes to 100% and says it's finished but it hasn't done anything. I get the .sfl file but no .mov, not even a 0 length file.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm using QT 7.7.1 (the latest), Windows 7 64bit and Vegas Pro 10 64bit. I know QT is only 32bit, but I've been using it with 64 bit software and operating systems for a few years now and have never come across this. I've uninstalled and reinstalled QT but to no avail.

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FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 12/3/2011, 10:14 PM

Can you render to anything else beside QT?
Have you checked your loop region?

fwtep wrote on 12/3/2011, 10:24 PM

Other formats render. No loop region set. Also, I've gone back to a version of QT that I know worked, yet still nothing.

Steve Mann wrote on 12/3/2011, 11:28 PM

Is there a reason that you *have* to encode to Quicktime?

rstrong wrote on 12/4/2011, 1:00 AM

I also have the same problem, and it is also in ProShow Producer too! It's a quicktime problem, sometimes it breaks a system. It works okay in my XP machine, but not my Win7 64 bit.

Oh well.......

MTuggy wrote on 12/4/2011, 10:32 AM

It seems that with many updates of Quicktime, it breaks the rendering in Vegas. I don't think Apple does any compatibility checks with other software as it updates QT (why should they bother?). Only thing I have found that worked was unstalling QT and installing an earlier version that did.

Mike

fwtep wrote on 12/4/2011, 11:45 AM

Here's the weird thing: It was all working fine until I went away on vacation, then it stopped working. I've NEVER had trouble rendering to QT before that. No one was using the system, auto updates is not turned on, no virus, etc.

But these file need to be QT because that's what the previous 261 files were delivered to the client as and I need a specific compressor within QT. (Note: None of the available QT compressors work-- Animation, Cinepak, etc,-- it's not just the one I want.)

I know it could be any one of a million variables that's causing the problem, but I posted here on the off chance that someone happened to have the same problem at some point and figured out how to solve it.

dxdy wrote on 12/4/2011, 11:51 AM

Do you know if the QT update to 7.7.1 occured after your vacation?
I would try rolling back to 7.6.2 - that is, uninstall QT, and then install 7.6.2.

cold ones wrote on 1/10/2012, 10:48 AM

Is anyone else seeing this?

I have this problem on both my computers, and it's beginning to be an issue. I've rolled back to QT 7.6.2, no change: a QuickTime render "completes" immediately but only creates an sfl file, no movie.

What's odd is that I have a brand new computer (listed in my specs) that has only ever had Vegas 11 on it, and I also have an older setup which has Vegas 10 & now 11. Both setups fail with QuickTIme render under Vegas 11, and strangely enough, on my older computer now Vegas 10 (both 32 & 64 bit versions) fails the same way.

Thanks to helpful folks on this forum, I've gotten into the habit of exporting an Avid DNxHD QuickTime file as a master file, but now I'm unable to do this.

I've contacted Sony last month, no word yet. Has anyone found a solution to this?

musicvid10 wrote on 1/10/2012, 11:13 AM

Quicktime renders "can" fail if pixel aspect is set to something other than 1.0, and/or frame dimensions are not in strict multiples of 4.

Former user wrote on 1/10/2012, 11:16 AM

Just one thought, if you start rendering a QT file from Vegas and abort for any reason, it leaves a bogus temp file. IF you try to render with the same file name, it will fail.

You could try changing the render file name and see if that works.

Dave T2

cold ones wrote on 1/10/2012, 11:38 AM

Thanks, Dave, great tip! However I tried several unique filenames for the render and they still failed.