Rendering with inadequate disk space

Jon_Roland wrote on 11/29/2008, 11:28 AM

I tried to render an MPEG2 file into WMV. It ran out of disk space, but instead of terminating the process with an error message, it continued as though it was saving, until completion, when it reported success. But the result was a 1-hour clip that had been truncated to only 7 minutes, with no indication that it was not full-length (other than the file size, which should have aroused suspicion).

This would seem to be a bug in VP8.

Comments

Grazie wrote on 11/29/2008, 9:49 PM

So, what is it you want? What would you like Vegas to do, that it isn't doing now?

In the meantime, I invite you to fill out your system specs - might have relevance here? System specs is under "My Account" at the very top of the page here. Yeah?

Grazie

Fredv wrote on 11/30/2008, 8:09 AM

Seems to me the logical fix would be for Vegas to stop rendering, and report no more disk space. :)

lynn1102 wrote on 11/30/2008, 12:22 PM

Last time it happened to me, Vegas let me know before it even started rendering. I was operator error on my part. I was paying attention to the save settings.

Lynn

Jim H wrote on 11/30/2008, 1:46 PM

The best thing Vegas could do is a quick analysis of the rendered file and a warning before rendering starts that there may not be enough disk space for the completed file and give you an opportunity to change save location BEFORE you walk away for three hours....

Jon_Roland wrote on 12/1/2008, 1:39 PM

Before the Render process runs out of disk space, it should suspend and issue a message, "Out of disk space. Make additional space available, then hit Resume, or Cancel."

lynn1102 wrote on 12/1/2008, 4:23 PM

For some reason, everytime I load capture video, no matter how I set it up, it dumps everything into my documents folder. I set up a specific folder on my D drive, but it still dumps to my documents. There have been times when it dumped the video files into a folder that was used for another project. That make it fun to find them again.
Rendered files are supposed to go to my G drive, but sometimes they will also wind up in my documents folder on the C drive. This is when I run out of space, but as I said, I get a warning before rendering. I have to move the video files back to the D drive and the re-render, making sure they go to the proper drive. I usually remember, but if I'm in a hurry, I may forget to check.
I check and reset preferences almost evertime I capture or render anything.

Lynn

Chienworks wrote on 12/1/2008, 5:31 PM

In VidCap where you add capture folders, make sure you delete or at least disable the folders you don't want to use. If you leave the default My Documents directory in the list it will be on top, and VidCap will store data there first.