Sorry, I am extremely computer illiterate, I went to your link and am following the instructions, Under the command prompt box, The first time I typed in the BCDEdit line with quotations, it said the system cannot find the path specified, The second time, I did it without quotations, And it replied BCDEdit is not recognized as an internal or external command, noperable program or batch file!

What sort of information do you require to help me better

Lots of various information would help point us to the proper path.

What operating system is on your computer? (Windows XP, Vista, or 7? 32-bit or 64-bit?)

What version of Vegas Movie Studio are you using? (Platinum? and version number.)

What type of video files are your sources (where did you get them or what camera did you use, what are the file name extensions (.avi, .m2ts, etc.).

What are your render options? (What format and codec are you using? or what steps did you follow to render your video?)

The operating system is Windows XP , I am using Movie studio 6 Platinum edition. The format I am using is mpeg2, I upload it from a sony Avchd Handycam And I convert them to mpeg2 before i Edit. I do not have any issues with a 3 minute video, But the one i am working on now is about 30 minutes

As fore the rendering steps, I am basically following the step by stepinstructions, And I have tried to render the video to a few different codecs with the same problem of stopping at either 11 or 14 percent

My guess is that the hard drive you're trying to render your video to is formatted as FAT32 which has a 4GB file size limit. To tell if this is the case, double click on My Computer, highlight the hard drive you're saving to, right click and choose Properties. It sould either say FAT32 or NTFS. If it says FAT32 you'll need to convert to NTFS.

You may want to have someone more computer literate help you but here are the steps to convert:

Click on the Start menu, choose Run..., type cmd and hit enter. In the window that pops up type

convert X: /fs:ntfs [hit enter]

Replace X with the actual drive letter that needs to be converted. If it's your C drive, you'll be prompted to retsart the PC.

According to Microsoft, the chance of data loss is minimal but you may still want to back up important files just in case.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

Okay, the fix I suggested in my first post in this thread made a number of assumptions that were not valid. The link to the fix I suggested is strictly for Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum, not for the version you are using. (The fix was also for a different operating system than you are using.)

All my drives are ntsf

thanks anyway dave

I am thinking it is a memory issue, Because whenever I change something in the editing process, (aka get rid of the overlay photos in the second video track)then it renders for a little longer, then stops again. So my next question would be
Does Anyone know how to change how much memory the program uses, or change the limit that a program is allowed to use?

Ok now, I did the Ctrl,Alt/Del, and went to performance, and tried to render the video again, And as soon as Vegas used 1 gig of memory, the computer usage dropped to 0%

What is the resolution of the still photos in your project? I know that in version 9, huge photos cause a lot of people problems, and they fix it by reducing them with a program outside Vegas to, say, 3 megapixel photos or so.

I've never used your version of Movie Studio, so I don't know what the issues are that it has (maybe if you went back a few years in this forum you might find lots of threads specifically about version 6 issues, back when most everyone was using it). I've only been reading this forum for about six months, but the thing that strikes me is that there are only a small handful of problems that people have with Vegas, but they happen to lots of people over and over. There's really not much new advice that people are providing, but the same answers over and over. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same with version 6, but by now pretty much everyone will have forgotten all the issues and answers since nearly everyone is using version 9 now, and will soon be using version 10.

Anyway, good luck, and there's probably a lot of version 6 wisdom in the older threads. I don't know when version 6 was first released, but this forum goes back to October 1, 2000!

resizing the photos seems to be working, Thanks for your help guys

Just browsing the forum and after reading this thread checked my hard drive which is NTFS. However the file system on the external hard drive I use for all my Sony Vegas Movie Studio PP 9 projects is FAT32. I have never experienced any of the problems described above - should I just let 'sleeping dogs lie' ?

Then you must not have rendered a file larger than 4GB. If not, let those dogs lie. If they ever "bark", then you know it's time to convert.

Thanks for your response MSmart. Ha – upon reflection I think those dogs were barking but at the time didn’t realise it because I’d found a work-around.

I’m using Windows XP Home edition and my file formats are .TOD (JVC Everio camcorder). I edit and render in .AVI then convert to MPEG2 prior to sending to DVDA. I find if I leave it in .AVI and then send to DVDA the render in to MPEG2 takes forever. And, as I said above, upon reflection I seem to recall the render only completing ¾ of the way through and then giving me an ‘unknown error’ message.

My last project was over 5GB (run time 1hr23min). Using the Make Movie function in SVMSP9, I sent my video to DVDA to save to my hard drive first and in order to ‘optimise to disk’. When I selected that option it started to re-render and I didn’t want to re-render MPEG to MPEG so I cancelled that and opted for splitting the video over 2 discs which of course worked just fine – except I would have preferred the entire project on one disc but I didn’t have time back then to try and figure out what was happening.

So now, do I follow david f knight’s advice as per his post on 6/2/2010 5:16:15 AM or do I follow the steps given by yourself -MSmart on 6/2/2010 7:57:48 AM?

MSmart is correct that you cannot have any file larger than 4GB on a FAT32 formatted drive. So, you can either convert your FAT32 drive to NTFS, or you can use your existing NTFS drive to render your video to.

Re: whether you should follow my advice, please understand something about advice given here (or anywhere). You need to properly evaluate it for your particular circumstances. The advice I gave is good, but only appropriate when it is relevant. Given the details you have provided, I doubt that the advice I previously provided is relevant for you. In any case, I would change only one thing at a time, and you need to deal with the FAT32 vs. NTFS issue so I'd do that first. The details (i.e., relevance) of my advice are spelled out more completely in the link I provided in my earlier post.