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Chienworks wrote on 10/30/2003, 8:25 AM
A few questions:

What rendering template did you use? (uncompressed, DV, some other compression)

How large is the output file in megabytes or gigabytes?

Do you have a loop selection set on your timeline? If you have one set for the first four minutes and the "render loop selection only" button is checked when you render, then the rendering process will complete normally but only the selected section will be used.
mickyd wrote on 10/30/2003, 4:05 PM
Thanks for your reply. There is no loop section set. Render loop section only is not checked and the file size is comining out everytime at around 5 meg, which is well short of what it should be.

regards mickyd
Chienworks wrote on 10/30/2003, 4:30 PM
5MB is really really really tiny for 4 minutes of AVI. What template/compression are you using? A standard DV .avi file should be about 900MB for 4 minutes. Uncompressed would probably be around 6.8GB for 4 minutes.
mickyd wrote on 10/30/2003, 6:33 PM
Sorry mate, you are right it is 4.9 gig, my mistake. Still don't know why it's only saving 4 mins, any more ideas would be great. . . .

regards

mickyd
Chienworks wrote on 10/30/2003, 7:18 PM
Ummm, can you tell me what template you're using when you render? I presume you're choosing default/uncompressed. Are you changing any of the custom settings at all?

Thanks :)
riredale wrote on 10/30/2003, 10:24 PM
Try a render using the "DV" format. I would guess that the DV format is used 99% of the time, simply because it makes dealing with DV camcorders so effortless.

Your 25 minute movie should be a little less than 6GB in total size. If you are using FAT32 for your hard drive(s) Vegas will build two files. The first one will be 4GB and the second one will be the remaining portion of the total size.
stormstereo wrote on 10/30/2003, 10:26 PM
Do you have enough space on the hard drive? In the Project Properties and Options menu/Preferences you can set temporary folders to different hard drives. Maybe they're full? In the video capture program Options menu/Preferences theres a disk management tab. Look at it and make sure all is ok although it's for capture. Use a correct render template. Are you sure you want uncompressed? If the original footage is DV I would render out to DV unless I had a special reason for uncompressed.
Finally, if nothing works, try opening up two instances of Vegas with one containing your "faulty" project. Press Ctrl+a and then Ctrl+c to copy the whole timeline, switch to your emty instance, make sure you're at 00:00:00;00 and press Ctrl+v to paste it all in. Save under a new name and try to render. Any luck?
Best/Tommy
brobb wrote on 10/31/2003, 10:06 AM
I had the same problem last night on my project. I finally saved rendered it again but I compressed it with Indio5. Is this a good compressor?
mickyd wrote on 10/31/2003, 10:39 AM
To all thank you.
I have tried several templates, the one I want is DV PAL. Is this right ? I have tried setting the loop region to the whole film, and rendering loop region only, but to no avail. All the custom settings are based around PAL, is this right ?