Sony Vegas Pro 11 - Multiple Render Errors

Zanoske wrote on 10/19/2016, 8:42 AM

Hi Everyone,

I've been frequenting these forums for awhile, and I've learned a ton. Thank you to all who contribute! But now, I've hit what seems like an insurmountable wall.

I'm attempting to render a video for YouTube and am experiencing several errors. These are parapharsed, as I'm not in front of my home PC at the moment...

1. Error rendering file XXXX. The cause of the error could not be determined. (No additional details) This one is especially infuriating because it occurs AFTER the video has rendered about 30%.

2. There is not enough memory available. Closing applications may free up space to perform the requested task.

Again, these are paraphrased, but if you've ever seen these errors you know what I'm talking about.

The oddest thing is that I rendered a video just fine like a week ago. No significant changes to my PC since then.

I'm rendering as .mp4 1080p (I've also tried in 720p) and have tried Encoding Settings "Automatic" and "Use CPU Only". Neither work, but "Use CPU Only" gets me to about 30% before it fails.

I have approx. 250GB free space on my HD, so I don't think it's a file size issue.

All files used in the video are available right on my main PC HD.

I have ZERO other applications open/running (that I'm aware of) when attempting to render. I even have restarted my PC and did nothing but try to open VP11 > render.

I'm at a complete loss. The only alternative I can think of now is to render the file in pieces, then attempt to splice and render the full video together. Maybe having the contents in small chunks will be easier on the application that having to render so many different lines (the file has around a total of 17 audio and video tracks combined)?

My most recent attempt to fix this issue is to turn automatic Windows Updates back on. I had turned them off because they never seemed to help my performance, but I figured it was worth a shot. It didn't help based on my last render attempt.

Does anyone have ANY suggestions? My next step is to run a "Fix Errors" scan on my C:Drive, which I'm certain will just destroy my project. This is my last resort, and even then there's no guarantee it'll work.

Thanks All!

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set wrote on 10/19/2016, 9:30 AM

The only alternative I can think of now is to render the file in pieces, then attempt to splice and render the full video together. Maybe having the contents in small chunks will be easier on the application that having to render so many different lines (the file has around a total of 17 audio and video tracks combined)?

This happened to me last March (still Win 7 that time - but I'm using VP13), and felt a bit heavy too during editing. Need heavy color correction on Track Level. During render to 1080 MP4, got the same issue, so I have to render it to small pieces.

Zanoske wrote on 10/19/2016, 9:38 AM

set - Thanks for your response!

Did that solution work for you? Rendering in pieces, splicing pieces together, and then rendering the full video?

set wrote on 10/19/2016, 9:43 AM

Yes... I render it to SonyAVC > AVCHD template.

Zanoske wrote on 10/19/2016, 3:25 PM

I backed up my project (crossing fingers the SD card doesn't suddenly corrupt ; ;)

Now I'm running a "Fix Errors" scan of my C:Drive right now, and will check which files need repairing/deleting when I return home.

Will attempt to render normally after that's finished, but if it still fails I'll try to render in segments then splice the pieces together and render the full video.

Anyone have any other suggestions?

dxdy wrote on 10/19/2016, 3:35 PM

I backed up my project (crossing fingers the SD card doesn't suddenly corrupt ; ;)

Are you working directly from your SD card? Vegas makes scratch files as it works, and you may not have enough room for everything on the SD card. Always copy your camera files from the SD card to the HDD before running Vegas.

Zanoske wrote on 10/19/2016, 3:53 PM

I had been working from the a mix of both at first (some files on PC, some on SD card) but the last few attempts I had moved all files onto PC.

Still experienced same issue so I'm trying everything else I can think of now.

Good to know though! I'll make sure all files on PC for first attempt going forward :)

ccliffy wrote on 10/21/2016, 9:07 AM

is it failing at same point every time. I had a similar problem over the summer and one clip was the culprit so I rendered it separately and added it back