Render Stops at 3.99G with Error

DavidPJ wrote on 5/17/2003, 10:21 AM

I'm re-rendering a previously rendered project. I deleted the old rendered files (2 files with the first ending at 3.99G).

I made a few minor edits on the timeline and added markers with notes. Every time I try to render (3 times now) I get an error message right at the 3.99G file limitation. Instead of creating a second file, rendering stops and I get an error message indicating rendering could not continue. I don't have the exact wording of the error message, but it indicates that a folder could not be opened or not enough memory. I'll get the exact message when this happens again.

The first AVI file is created fine. If the second file were to be rendered, it will take less than 1MB.

I'm running V4b with Win 98SE and 384MB RAM. I have about 21G free disk space after the first rendered file is created. I've tried rebooting my PC a few times with no help.

My first rendered project worked perfectly. I have not changed anything in Vegas or Windows or my PC.

Please help if you can! I'm running out of ideas.

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mikkie wrote on 5/17/2003, 10:32 AM

"If the second file were to be rendered, it will take less than 1MB."

Could it be the prob is the file being too small? Spanning files is kind of tricky IMO, so might somehow run into a glitch. Rather then kill myself at this point, I'd consider something like this...

Save your proj under a new name, insert a new video track, import the rendered video, the part that's 3.99 gig. Create a marker a bit to the left of where this file ends. Drag/create a loop from the marker to the end of the clip & render loop region only. Do the same thing from the marker to the start. Should get 2 files, one slightly less then 3.9 gig, the other the remainder of the video.

DavidPJ wrote on 5/17/2003, 11:11 AM

Mikkie, thanks for the suggestion. I made a typo regarding the second file. The second rendered AVI file should be just under 1GB. Since this worked perfectly the first time I rendered the project, I would think that the file is not too small for proper spanning.

Hunter wrote on 5/17/2003, 11:24 AM

Windows 98SE 4gig limit, you have to upgrade to NT, 2K or XP

mikkie wrote on 5/17/2003, 12:02 PM

"I made a typo regarding the second file. The second rendered AVI file should be just under 1GB. "

Oh well... I think Vegas might be kind of picky as to what it accepts for file spanning - perhaps it thinks for whatever reason your files &/or proj don't meet those requirements? If everything's exactly the same with the proj, then I'd think that maybe the prob would have to do with the option settings for Vegas itself, and or the render settings, that something is set differently there.

It's been quite a while, but I think I recall a similar error when I forgot to check either open dml or avi 2 or something.

if any of that helps - could always still split it manually if you can't find an immediate solution.

luck
mike

DavidPJ wrote on 5/17/2003, 10:17 PM

After a day's worth of troubleshooting, I've learned the cause of my render problem. With V4b or 4c, turn on Save Project Markers in Media File in the Render As window. Every time I rendered with this feature checked, the render process would stop after 1-1/2 hours with an error at 3.99GB. If I turned off the Save Project Markers, the rendering process completes as expected with two new AVI files. I run this test 5 times with the Save Project Markers On, and twice with the Markers Off.

The problem first occurred in V4b. Once I determined it was caused by the Save Project Markers, I upgraded to 4c, expecting the problem to be resolved. However, it remained.

My project has 10 markers with just a few words of notes for each. I have not tried deleting certain markers to further isolate the problem. Unless someone can explain this behavior, I have to assume this is a bug in Vegas under Win98SE and SOFO will fix it. Can someone from SOFO please comment on this?

thefourthgunman wrote on 5/18/2003, 1:17 AM

it is because of fat32

not win98se

you could still have that problem with win2000

because it is the hard disk format not the operating system

SonyDennis wrote on 5/21/2003, 12:46 PM

DavidPJ:

Thanks for letting us know about this problem with >4G renders with Save Project Markers to FAT32. We are able to repro (and have logged) this bug.

///d@

DavidPJ wrote on 5/22/2003, 11:05 AM

Thanks. I like using markers so I hope this bug is fixed soon in an upcoming release. I don't have the option of changing file systems at the moment.