Rendering problems

msimek78 wrote on 1/21/2009, 8:19 AM

Hello,

I have problem with rendering my project, when I start rendering after couple minutes the application fall down - with error message or without. It is 30min project.

My HW and SW
Camera SONY Handycam DCR-190E (saving on HDD in format MPEG2)
PC Acer 1,6 GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows XP
SONY Vegas Platinum 8.0b - build 122 (I try to upgrade on 8.0d and trial 9.0)
all videos are in format MPEG2 as camera save it - maximum size of file is 300MB

What I try to do to solve this problem:
- try to render only part of the project video
- try to save as and render again
- reduce the maximum rendered threads on 1
- increase allocating RAM for Sony Vegas
- conversion HDD (both partition) from FAT32 on NTFS
- reduce size pictures which are used in project
- render the project on other computer (I save whole project whith source media files and render it on my notebook) where the rendering run longer but anyway fall down

- change of priority used codecs

However there is no visible reason for this error. Many times the video fall down in "complicated point" (added picture, some effect, ...) but ALWAYS in other point...

Thank you for any answer and sorry for my english ;)

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/21/2009, 8:29 AM

if there's an error, please post it. In many cases, the error spells out EXACTLY what the issues is.

But things to note:
*make sure all images are PNG, they work best for vegas
*try to use HDV/DV if at all possible. Others work but the HDV/DV codecs are built in to vegas & tend to have little problems.
*if using a 3rd party plugin (FX/ transition, etc) try removing that.

rs170a wrote on 1/21/2009, 8:48 AM

Is all your video on a separate drive (i.e. not drive C)?
IMO, your computer is underpowered for efficient handling of MPEG-2 footage.

Mike

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/21/2009, 9:23 AM

i've never had a crash because the computer was underpowered.

My dad did have a wierd thing once where he had nested veg's with nested veg's & that causes lots of problems. He had it crash some times & one time it was rendering for ~30 hours. I stopped it (it was only a 5 minute video, all cuts & some gen media) & found that out. Once I fixed those (the nested veg's ended up being nothing more then a single clip he was working on named the same name as the clip, so he accidentally dragged that on vs the clip) & it rendered in 15 minutes.

gkephart wrote on 1/29/2009, 1:26 PM

I had same problems, and changing the "rendering threads" to 2 in the Options/Video setting fixed it perfectly. Tech support has no explanation for this, but that's what fixed mine.