still having rendering problems...

Red96TA wrote on 10/3/2004, 2:11 AM
I've got a HUGE project waiting to be rendered. It has something like 16 tracks, inlcluding Magic Bullet tracks throughout the 80 minute project. I was expecting slow rendering because of the complexity of the render, but every time I render via Main Concept or frameserving through TMPGenc, it crashes...sometimes even gives me a BSOD.

This is cheezing me off pretty hard...I need this rendered by the 5th or I'm bound to lose $1000.

Any help would be appreciated.

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B.Verlik wrote on 10/3/2004, 2:35 AM
Only a suggestion, don't know for sure if it will help. Try turning everything else off in background except systray and explorer (cont, alt, delete to access) Or render into short .avi's and after rendering place back on timeline, back to back, and finish. I don't have magic bullet, but heard it's super long and hard on computer to render.
Grazie wrote on 10/3/2004, 2:40 AM
Hiyah!

Any chance you could "beakdown" the project into smaller bits and tracks? Do ALL the tracks ned to be used? Are all the tracks being USED for ALL the time? Ifnot do some "pruning and get rid of those tracks that aren't being used duting a sequence.

Bit of housekeeping needed. . . . Magic Bullit? Hmmmm... the word "bulit" doesn't come to mind here .. MB is HUMUNGESLY render intensive. . .I tried it once and nearly lost the will to live . . .

So, my adivse would be to break stuff down, remove tracks, and/or render "around" tracks. Make Avis first and reassemble. This last bit about making inter AVIs is well worth it. Apart from anything else you WILL have some rendered stuff FINISHED for MPEGging - yeah?

Hpoe this helps .. . let us know how you get on Guy!

Grazie
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/3/2004, 7:05 AM
Red,
here are a couple alternatives.
First, if you have any 3D sections, render those to a new track. (only the 3D sections)
Then delete the 3D tracks and for safety, save the file under a new name with the newly rendered 3D track areas.
Pre-render short sections, making sure that you aren't writing your temp files to your C:\ drive.
It also may be that your system simply doesn't have the resources to stay cool during the MPEG render. MPEG encoding is notorious for shutting down anything but the very best of systems.
Red96TA wrote on 10/3/2004, 2:06 PM
I pulled out a stick of ram that I suspect may be going bad and pulled out my cheap usb2 and firewire PCI cards...now thing appear to be rendering.

but...the project is 80 minutes long and render times are nearly 100 hours o_O I figured that render times would slow down because of the Magic Bullet stuff I have in the video, but sheesh...that's just not realistic when I only have one computer in which to make internet sales, render and produce videos, etc...

Anybody know of anything similar I can use to substitute in the place of the 'War Epic Light' MB filter?