Rendering Errors

alivision wrote on 8/25/2005, 9:33 AM

I'm working in Vegas 5 on a project that's an one hour 50 minutes. Everytime I try to render it, it gets to 90 minutes and stops rendering.I have plenty of room on the drive (97.9 GBs). I'm using the same drive for
"temps". I've also checked Pre-rendered files on the video tab and recorded files folder on the audio tab. Still having the same problem.

I had this problem on another project I was working on a couple of weeks ago but had to put that project on hold to work on this one. On that project same thing - 90 minutes- then stop. Confusing.

Thanks,

Al

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 8/25/2005, 9:37 AM

How large is the resulting file when it quits? What format are you rendering to?

johnmeyer wrote on 8/25/2005, 12:37 PM

If this is Vegas 6 and you are rendering stills, this is a known problem.

trock wrote on 8/25/2005, 4:10 PM

Whenever I've run into this problem, frameserving out with the debugmode frameserver has always solved it.

alivision wrote on 8/25/2005, 8:07 PM

Hi:

I'm a newbie with Vegas and don't know how to check the file size at the time the render failed. Could you tell me how to check this? Thanks.

The format I'm rendering to is: Main Concept MPEG-2.

Thanks for your help.

Al

alivision wrote on 8/25/2005, 8:10 PM

>>Whenever I've run into this problem, frameserving out with the debugmode frameserver has always solved it.<<

I'm new to Vegas and don't know what you mean by the above comment. Sounds like it might help me. Could you walk me through this?

Thanks very much for your help.

Al

Chienworks wrote on 8/25/2005, 8:22 PM

You would check the size the same way you do with any other file. Find it in explorer (or My Computer), right-mouse-button click on it, and choose Properties. If i had to guess, which is what i'm doing, i might think that the render is failing when the file exceeds 4GB. I would also guess that this *might* be do your drive being FAT32 rather than NTFS.

alivision wrote on 8/25/2005, 10:21 PM

Yes, I believe my drive is Fat32. How do I get around this limitation?

Thanks

Steve Mann wrote on 8/25/2005, 10:36 PM

This is a repeatable bug in my V6. If there's any unused media in my "Project Media" window, my renders will sometimes just freeze up at 99%. Click on "Remove all unused media" and try rendering again.

And let me know if it works for you, too.

Steve Mann

trock wrote on 8/26/2005, 10:27 AM

>>I'm new to Vegas and don't know what you mean by the above comment. Sounds like it might help me. Could you walk me through this?<<

You download debugmode's Frameserver program from debugmode.com and then install it choosing Vegas in the install options.

Then when you go to render, one of your options will be "debugmode frameserver". Follow the prompts and it will very quickly create a "signpost" avi file which can be opened in most any other program that accepts avi files.

Use that 2nd program to render or convert your footage which will be fed to it one frame at a time (much faster than it sounds).

If I want to render as mpeg for DVD I use Procoder Express (about $50) or TMPGEnc and if I want to render as DV I usually use VirtualDubMod.with the Panasonic DV codec (both free). There are many other programs you could choose for the render step.

The beauty of frameserving is that you don't use up any hard drive space for any intermediate render, the output is accepted by pretty much any program (which gives you more encoding options) and particularly that it doesn't care if there's a problem that causes Vegas to freeze on rendering.

alivision wrote on 8/27/2005, 3:54 AM

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I'll try them and let you know what works.

Al

trock wrote on 8/27/2005, 6:20 AM

>>Yes, I believe my drive is Fat32. How do I get around this limitation?<<

There is a convert utility built-in to Windows that enables you to convert from FAT32 to NTFS supposedly without losing your data. I used it to convert a new drive to NTFS and it worked fine but I haven't tried it on a drive that has data on it.

In a web search on "convert FAT32 to NTFS" I found sites (including Microsoft's) that gave step-by-step instructions and that said you wouldn't lose any data and I also found one that warned that you might.