Rendering Problem

FrankLP* wrote on 2/22/2007, 11:52 AM

Hi all,
I have a 45 minute, fairly complex production (numerous: nested veg files of Ultra 2 comps, QuickTime files, animation, etc) that is taking over 36 hours to render just the MPG2 (audio render separately and successfully as ac3) and Vegas tends to lock up about 1/2 to 3/4 way through.

Shouldn’t I be able to render this type of production as a single MPG2 file (for DVD creation)?

Any input is appreciated. Thanks all.

Comments

Dach wrote on 2/22/2007, 1:28 PM

Unfortunately I can not share a fix, but only a similar situation. Vegas 7d has been meeting all of my needs until now.

About 30 minutes into a render it is freezing up on me. I have reinstalled the program, but have not yet tested it.

Chad

ScottW wrote on 2/22/2007, 5:17 PM

Do a dust bunny patrol on your motherboard, power supply, and expecially your CPU heat sink and fan (canned air). Accumulated dust on the CPU heatsink can cause heat buildup and since rendering is a very CPU intensive task, more heat is generated during it, which can push things over the edge.

--Scott

FrankLP* wrote on 2/22/2007, 6:08 PM

Hi Scott,
I run a Koolance system and the CPU temp is running 28-30c during this load. I'll check, but I'm 99.9% sure I'm okay temperature wise. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Jim H wrote on 2/22/2007, 8:03 PM

Had the same problem with a long HD project and resigned to the fact that it was a memory problem as in not enough of it. I ended up rendering to new track into three parts and deleting all the complex effects and vegs before rendering the three parts into one video.

fldave wrote on 2/22/2007, 8:33 PM

Nested Vegs are great, but they tend to increase the system resource requirements. Either your machine is overheating, or running out of memory.

Try outputing 2-3 sections to AVI (as recommended above) or you can experiment trying to free up more memory (disable background tasks, reduce Dynamic RAM preview) and opening up your case.