Rendering to avi. problem

smythology wrote on 10/6/2008, 7:54 PM
Hi,

I'm producing a DVD that's 68 minutes long and finished editing in Sony Vegas. And I tried to render it to avi with the NTSC DV template.

But after rendering for 45 minutes, the preview screen went black and the status bar got stuck on 78% (at 97,479 frames when my project is 124,373 frames long) for the next hour and a half. After about two and a half hours, it was still at 78%. So I decided to cancel it. Then, as computers do, the program failed to close. So I had to reboot completely.

When I played what ended up as the rendered avi file, it was only 4 minutes long but the file size itself ended up to be over a massive 11 GB which didn't make sense. I should point out that my live shots are originally dv files (fed off my E: drive) and the computer shots are in quick time format (fed off my C: drive).

I ask about this problem in another forum and they suggested to make sure the temp render drive has at least 25GB of space on it. What and where is this drive they're talking about?

Robin

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 10/6/2008, 8:36 PM
Make sure your drives are not set to go to sleep after user inactivity, because this can cause Vegas to crash if the drives that hold some more footage go to sleep when they are needed to get rendered.

Also, do you use too many pictures in that project?

Finally, the AVI becoming 11 GB is normal. You exported in uncompressed format, which is the default AVI format. Read here: http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/01/22/confusion-and-video-editing/
smythology wrote on 10/7/2008, 5:06 AM
What drives are you talking about? Also, how many pictures can it handle? There are some jpg still in the timeline...
Eugenia wrote on 10/7/2008, 1:02 PM
Hard drives, what else?

Vegas might have problems after 50-70 huge megapixel images.
Rich Z wrote on 10/21/2008, 9:42 PM
I have the same problem, but in Vegas Pro 8. But it is not limited to .avi files. They ALL do it if I try to put still images (.jpg) after video and try to render the file. What happens is Vegas Pro 8 (build 260) will render the file until it gets to the first jpg image, and then choke up.

Please tell me I am just doing something wrong and Vegas Pro 8 can process video AND jpg images to give me a useable file.
Eugenia wrote on 10/22/2008, 1:16 AM
Do a bug report with Sony, and send them one of these JPG files. Also, try resaving these JPEG files to project size with another application, e.g. GIMP.