Rendering Will Not Complete

c343484 wrote on 11/27/2007, 3:23 PM
Hi, I have searched through the forums looking for clues to help; nothing yet.

I am running Vegas Movie Studio version 6 using a laptop computer with 2GB RAM and plenty of disk space. I have run into this problem before and ended up splitting my project in two but there has to be a better way.

My current project stops rendering at 98% complete and just hangs until I shut it down. My current rendering time is over 4+ hours and the video preview window appears complete. The mpeg file that eventually is created is about 2.1gb on my hard disk. I can actually play this file with Windows Media Player and it almost finishes the original project except for about 2 minutes of my project which remains uncompleted.

There are a few other postings with similiar symptoms but nothing I have tried has worked. Have I hit some type of maximum limit? I find it hard to believe I can't finish the rendering and put it on a 4.7gb DVD...
Any suggestions?

Much Thanks, Signed "There Has To Be A Better Way"

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 11/27/2007, 4:49 PM
the only known problem for these kinds of hang ups is if you are using too many pictures, unresized.
c343484 wrote on 11/27/2007, 5:07 PM
Yes, I definitely have some photo's that need to be resized...
1. I have downloaded image resizer from Microsoft. After I am done resizing the photo's is there a quick way to import them back into VMS without restarting the project over?

2. Do you know if VMS Platinum 8 would fix this problem in the future? I saw a thread that said "possibly"?

Thanks for the quick reply...
Eugenia wrote on 11/27/2007, 5:15 PM
1. You just replace the old big pictures with the new smaller ones. Then, you re-encode.
2. No one knows for sure... I don't personally use many pictures on my videos, so I haven't run into the problem.
c343484 wrote on 11/28/2007, 12:52 PM
Eugenia,

A BIG Thanks! After re-sizing all of my images to 640 x 480 I was able to successfully render the file into one project. It took a little over 4 hours and created a 3.2gb mpeg file. Now all I have to do is move it over to DVD Architect for the final burn. I think I am home free.

Thanks Again, Brian.
azhot wrote on 2/21/2008, 8:42 PM
Did making the pics that much smaller in size affect their quality on the screen -- if you show it on a big screen? I have a 8mp camera (well, today that's not even large any more) and last year rendered all the pictures as large as they were -- this year I'm having the same problem -- can't complete the render process and then it loses the audio halfway through. I can't believe the software has so many problems -- today. I had none last year so figure that one out!
Chienworks wrote on 2/21/2008, 9:16 PM
The resolution of a DVD is 720x480, or 720x576 if you're in PAL-land. All pictures will be resized to this by the rendering process no matter what size they were to begin with. Your DVD player also works at this resolution. Using larger pictures won't result in any higher resolution image when you play the DVD.
azhot wrote on 2/21/2008, 9:39 PM
Thanks.

I must just have been lucky up until now...these two videos are just a bit larger than the last ones that I had no problem with -- so maybe I just finally got to the limit besides the Paint Shop Pro software maybe had something to do with it.