rendering crisis

sam tsang wrote on 4/12/2005, 8:21 AM
I tried to render a video 1:36 mins when it gets to 1:33 mins, it give out an error saying there is an "unknown" cause.

I have no other software running at the same time. I tried unintall and reinstall vegas without success.

I have previously rendered a shorter video and it worked fine.

I have a P4 3.0 with 512 RAM
Video card is Nvidea go 5200
Using an external SeaGate 160GB 7200RPM

Somebody please help!!!

Comments

craftech wrote on 4/12/2005, 11:41 AM
Stretch out the timeline to 1 hour 33 minutes and look for a gap or other problem that may be visible. Are you using Windows XP? How is your hard drive partitioned?
What format are you rendering to? Are you using the default settings for Vegas? More information is necessary in order to help you.

John
rmack350 wrote on 4/12/2005, 11:57 AM
As John says, there are lots of possible causes. Definitely searc the forum for this problem because it does crop up.

If you happen to be rendering to DV AVI you can render out parts of the timeline and then put them together again. Also, you could test that last stretch of the timeline to see if it renders. The test is to determine if there's something actually wrong on the timeline.

If not then there's external things like not enough HD space or a 2 GB limit on file sizes.

Rob Mack
Yoyodyne wrote on 4/12/2005, 3:35 PM
Your not rendering to mpeg 2 by any chance are you?
rmack350 wrote on 4/12/2005, 5:35 PM
So what's the deal with MPEG2? I know some people have had trouble but I just did a 7 minute piece to the DVDA template and had no troubles at all. I probably did five or six revisions and they all rendered without a hitch.

I know the symptom was that the render would get near the end and then bomb. That's all.

Rob Mack
BillyBoy wrote on 4/12/2005, 5:45 PM
Over the years I've used Vegas I've made hundreds of vids ranging in size from under ten minutes to over two hours, all MPEG2. In all those renders the few times I had a problem was either directly traceable to a Windows problem or some corruption in one of the source files that didn't show up during editing. All in all, Vegas is a very stable video editing application. By far the most stable I've used and I've tried just about all of them except for the ultra high end stuff.