Rendering help - please

BobMoyer wrote on 4/18/2010, 3:18 PM
Yesterday, I rendered widescreen/standard def veg of 66 different clips with 5.1 stero. I accidently selected the DVD Arch NTSC video stream. Rendered it and the sound file separately (AC3 file). Put it into DVDA and made sure that the properties matched (16:9, etc) rendered it and burned it to disc. It played back fine on my 16:9 TV, but it surely wasn't a very well defined picture - almost the quality of a VHS tape or less. Anyway, all day today, I have tried to render the same veg using the DVD Arch NTSC Widescreen option out of Vegas. It continually crashes at various places - never at a scene change. I have no transitions, just cuts. At this point, Vegas crashes when I try to render period. On the drop down list of render templates, the "DVD Architect NTSC Widescreen video stream" is preceeded with an equal sign (=). It is the only one on the list like that.

Windows XP/32 bit
Vegas Pro 9.0b (Very first render to wrong template above)
Vegas Pro 9.0c (ALL subsequent render attempts)
DVD A 5.0b (Build 180)

As you can see, I updated from b to c. I did that because I was getting these same crashes in b and thought c might have addressed that.

Thanks for any help.

Bob

Comments

Marc S wrote on 4/18/2010, 3:43 PM
Nor sure what the problem is but you might consider the "memory hack" if you have enough memory to spare. It fixed my render hangs.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=648182
BobMoyer wrote on 4/18/2010, 4:40 PM
Marc,
Thank you for the quick response. Let me first explain that I am a 'senior citizen--very senior' and as such I don't know much about hacking and changing things in .exes and .dlls. I am just confused as to why it worked yesterday (even thought I picked the wrong template and it totally refuses to render anything at all today!) I just rebuilt the .veg project from scratch and it crashed yet again. The article you referred me to seemed to mention Vegas 8 a lot and AVCHD files. My files are just standard definition DV files shot in animorphic 16:9 (I think that is the correct term, the spelling might be wrong). At this point I am LOST.

Bob