REndering freezes

Zwiebb wrote on 7/11/2013, 12:14 PM

I am using Vegas Platinum 9. I've made a 32 minute slide show using stills, video and music. Every attempt to render for a DVD freezes at 13% Any suggestions.?Thanks

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 7/11/2013, 3:22 PM

First, try resizing your photos to no larger than 1000x750 pixels in size. One of the chief causes of program choking is oversized photos. Photos taken directly from a camera can be 20 or more times the resolution of a video frame -- and that's a lot for the program to down-rez!

Second, do a Save As and save your project under a new name, ideally inside a new folder. (This will keep your new rendering files from getting all tangled up with your old, corrupt ones.) Then, with your photos all resized smaller, try your output again. Processing and rendering shouldn't take more than a short time (assuming youv'e got adequate RAM, processor power and free disc space).

number six wrote on 7/13/2013, 6:11 PM

Steve:
I use VMS10 and regularly create DVD slideshows from 4000x3000 photos with no problems. Surely re-sampling from a 1000x750 image (which has already been re-sampled) will produce poorer DVD image quality than when working from the original file?

musicvid10 wrote on 7/13/2013, 7:12 PM

Sounds like there may be an unsupported media file (a cmyk still?) at 13%. Find it, delete it from the project, or resave it.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 7/14/2013, 8:42 AM

And no, for the record, downsampling your photos to 1000x750 pixels will not reduce the quality of your images on DVD. Remember that your DVD is only 720x480 pixels, so you're still providing about 30% more pixels than video resolution.

Not only do 1000x750 pixel images process and render much more quickly than 4000x3000 pixels images, with less likelihood of the program choking, but, since you've downsampled them yourself, they often actually look crisper (particularly if you use bicubic sharpening when you downsample) and cleaner than when you let the program do the downsampling (which it does simply by dropping unnecessary pixels).

So some people don't do it. You may not need to (depending on your computer's resources). But, if it speeds up the process and increases the likelihood of a successfuly, better-looking slideshow, why not?