Render problem feedback ... apology too!

JohnS wrote on 1/25/2004, 11:00 PM
Several weeks ago I was having serious render problems with a bunch of still photos and a few video clips. I kept getting the "out of memory" error half way into my render. Many folks tried to help me, but the solutions that were given didn't seem to help. The error message kept coming. I was ready to hang up Vegas and try something new.

Last week, I read Spot's Vegas 4 book (I assume that it is the same Spot). In it, he talked about keeping still photos at or below 3 megapixels. I checked my project and voila, I found that one of my pics that I was panning and scanning was a 200meg file! (It was a scan of a map.) Once I shrunk it down to a 20meg file, my render worked perfectly - no error.

By the way, for anybody that reads this in the future and has a similar error message: Vegas never gave me the error message while rendering the 200meg map file. It always did it several pictures later. And, it wasn't consistent. This is one of the reasons why it was so difficult to isolate the problem.

Thanks millions, Spot, and everybody else that gave me input. Hopefully, Sony will accept my deepest apologies for all of the negative stuff that I said about them.

And so ... to the programmers of Vegas Video at Sony:
I am truly sorry.
Once again, Vegas ROCKS! I am here to stay.

JohnS

Comments

SonyTSW wrote on 1/26/2004, 8:05 PM
What format was that 200 MB file? Sounds like we need to add some size checking to the plug-in that reads that format, to prevent such a large still from being loaded into Vegas (I am assuming it was a compressed format that decompresses to something larger than 2048x2048). Anyway, happy to hear you've solved the problem.
Chienworks wrote on 1/26/2004, 8:23 PM
Goodness! 200MB? Even as an uncompressed 32bit image that would be 6270x8361 pixels or so. That's enormous! As a .jpg with moderate compression it could be 32000x48000 pixels.
JohnS wrote on 1/26/2004, 10:33 PM
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mislead you. The TIFF version was 200meg (+). I saved the Tiff as a JPG. The JPG version that I used in Vegas was 17.1 meg (7389x9814). Nonetheless, because JPG's must be uncompressed, this was the cause of the whole problem.

As I said earlier, though, the interesting part was that I never got the error message while in the middle of rendering this particular file. The error always occured while rendering several pictures later.