System memory problems when rendering HD

macas wrote on 7/18/2009, 11:12 PM

Am using Vegas 9 pro to render a 1920x1080i 7 minute video project for bluray. it stops after about 15% saying that ystem memory too low. I have just purchased a Sony Vaio laptop 2.4 ghz with 4 Gb of RAM. The guy assured me that it would be able to handle it. Afterall it has a built in bluray burner etc!!

Anyone have any ideas I think 4 Gb is max ram the laptop will take.

Comments

Terje wrote on 7/19/2009, 12:06 AM

Sounds like a bug. Report it to Sony. Try to upgrade to Vegas 8.

cliff_622 wrote on 7/19/2009, 5:38 AM

Try the typical workaround;

Go to "options", "preferences" and go to the "video" tab. Find the "maximum number of rendering threads" setting and drop it to 1.

Try a render. If it crashes, go back and adjust your "dynamic RAM preview" setting. (right above threads) Try 500 meg, if that crashes, try 750, if that crashes, try a gig, if that crashes, try 2 gigs and so forth. Play with these numbers by bumpung them up (and even down sometimes) and keep trying to render.

If crashes keep happening, dont give up! Some guys split their project renders in half or in quaters and combine them in a new project.

Going into my BIOS and "disabling muliti core support" helped me render the toughest ones.

If you have .jpg stills in your timeline, keep them as small as you can.

No matter what happens, call SCS and add your name to the list.

CT

In the end,...I wound up moving to Vista64 and that stopped the problem.

MarkHolmes wrote on 7/19/2009, 1:16 PM

Same here - had this same problem, upgraded same computer (Core 2 duo) from XP 32 bit to Vista 64 bit and 2 GB RAM to 8 GB RAM, all problems went away. Running 8.0c, BTW.

macas wrote on 7/20/2009, 1:27 AM

Hi guys, thanks for the help. I will try more ram, someone said to go to 0. Will see how that goes. The mpeg2 render wont play smoothly in my player, buggar!