render problem: keeps stopping at 83%

slambubba wrote on 4/10/2004, 1:13 PM
i'm working on a video slideshow and was doing a test ntsc dvd mpeg2 render last night. it stopped rendering at 83% but acted like it was still working. my cpu had no load so it appeared to have stopped. cancel wouldn't work and i had to kill vegas with task manager. i rebooted this morning at tried again. same problem and also at 83%.

i calculated where 83% is on my timeline and it is around where i do a quick noise filter. other than that, nothing fancy going on. i can prerender the ~83% region to avi with no problems. i tried to prerender to mpeg2 and get the following error message:

An error occurred while creating the media file Vegas Prerendered Video File 0000.jpg. The reason for the error could not be determined.

i ran a bunch of utilities and my hard drive checks out just fine. it is only 1% defragmented and has 38GB of free space. i use this drive only for video.

any ideas on what is going on?

Comments

Former user wrote on 4/10/2004, 1:17 PM
Are your temp and pre-renders also being created on that drive, or by chance on a smaller drive?

Dave T2
Cheno wrote on 4/10/2004, 1:38 PM
Unless your temp and prerendered file folder has been specified by you.. it's defaulting to your C drive.. you may want to check space there and make sure you've got enough. Or set your default folder on your video drive.

BillyBoy wrote on 4/10/2004, 2:05 PM
Obviously if it keeps stopping at the same spot something is causing it.
If you have no trouble rendering as AVI, then do so, using the AVI DV template, rendering as save as to your hard drive then start a new project WITH the AVI you just made as the souce. It will render very fast making your MPEG. Chances are good whatever is bugging Vegas, this will get past at at and not generate any quality loss.
JJKizak wrote on 4/10/2004, 2:41 PM
Vegas acts the same way when you run out of memory (especially slides)
but the memu pops up and says ran out of memory. The computer also locks up.

JJk
slambubba wrote on 4/10/2004, 9:30 PM
my vegas projects, temp directory, prerender directory are all on E: vegas is installed on D: (separate hard disk). i have 1GB of memory and memory usage appears to be steady throughout the render.

billyboy - i'm doing your suggestion and the avi render took 1 hour 15 mins. the mpeg2 render is half done and is on pace to take over 30 mins. while this might work, i would really like to figure out why i can't render (or prerender) to mpeg2. i tried prerendering in other places of the project to dvd ntsc mpeg2 and i get that generic error also.
Hunter wrote on 4/11/2004, 1:35 AM
This my not have anything to do with it, but where is the
"Vegas Prerendered Video File 0000.jpg"
coming from? Is that the file name of your jpg or is Vegas trying to create a jpg from the image the it locks up at?

Hunter
slambubba wrote on 4/11/2004, 7:37 AM
actually, it is .mpg and not .jpg
mariauserinfo wrote on 4/11/2004, 10:05 AM
Once it happened to me. When I installed a new hd the problem dissapeared.
slambubba wrote on 4/11/2004, 7:43 PM
ok, i've done some more testing. i can prerender to mpeg2 ONLY using the default setting. using any other template causes the unexpected error. also, i've opened several other projects and have the same problem. so, i have problems with render & prerender with mpeg2. avi with both works just fine.

any ideas on what the problem is here?
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 4/12/2004, 3:58 AM
I had this problem about a month ago, the render kept stopping in the same place, this was to a media 9/8 file, AVI & mpeg were fine.
It turned out to be the border filter, if it had any blur in it,it would stop right there.

Try taking the noise filter off at that point.

Do a search and you should find the more detail information I posted.
craftech wrote on 4/12/2004, 5:29 AM
Slambubba,

Are you sure it isn't just stopping at the 3.99GB file size limit for fat32?
If it is, you will have to adjust the bitrate in Vegas so that the file size is reduced.

John
slambubba wrote on 4/12/2004, 7:02 AM
zcheema - on my renders, i don't get any error. it acts like it's still rendering, but the frame in the preview window says 0. i figured after 7 hours on 83%, it was probably done. did you actually get an error message in your situation? also, is the dump in a log file somewhere?

i do get an error message when trying to prerender using mpeg2. this happens in all my files and in any location.

craftech - i'm using NTFS and my video is only 15 minutes long, so i don't think that's the problem.

i reloaded my windows xp a couple of months ago. vegas made me reregister but i can't remember if i had to for the main concept encoder. i thought i had to do both when i first installed vegas a year ago. might be a long shot, but i wonder if this might have anything to do with my mpeg2 problems?
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 4/12/2004, 3:26 PM
"on my renders, i don't get any error. it acts like it's still rendering, but the frame in the preview window says 0. i figured after 7 hours on 83%, it was probably done. did you actually get an error message in your situation? also, is the dump in a log file somewhere? "

I did get that after some of the error's . it seemed to continue but the counter was not moving or as you say on 0 i
I did get a dump file on most of them.
I renamed the veg file so i could look more closely, and the error is still repeatable.
SonyEPM wrote on 4/12/2004, 5:58 PM
"i tried to prerender to mpeg2 and get the following error message"

If you are rendering to MPEG-2, you are (best guess) creating files for DVD delivery...in that case don't do a prerender, just render to file.
slambubba wrote on 4/12/2004, 6:50 PM
"If you are rendering to MPEG-2, you are (best guess) creating files for DVD delivery...in that case don't do a prerender, just render to file."

yeah, but i can't render to mpeg2 either. that is where is stops at 83%. i did the mpeg2 prerender as a test and that's how i found those problems. it appears any rendering to mpeg2 has problems.
Hunter wrote on 4/13/2004, 10:47 AM
Here is a thought, try running Vegas install again. Maybe you have a dll.
slambubba wrote on 4/13/2004, 12:15 PM
i tried that, which said it did a repair, and it didn't fix it. i could do an uninstall, then reinstall, but i hate to lose all the settings i've tweaked. maybe there's a way to save them?
Siby wrote on 8/4/2006, 6:49 PM
I had experienced the same problem a week ago. I did a search on this forum and found this old discussion. My project was keep stopping at 25% at a particular position. My project was a slideshow for a wedding. I have around 100 photos most of them as Photoshop (PSD) and JPEG formats. The position where the rendering was stopping has a PSD format picture of 80MB. I reduced the image size and saved as JPEG. Reloaded into timeline. It went thru fine. So I guess if you are using a big size pictures the vegas will stop rendering. It won't give you any error messages. The remaning time counter keep working. But the actuual rendering stopped at that point.