The "Render As" box opens really slowly-- plz help

BGil wrote on 3/31/2005, 9:25 PM
When I'm in Vegas and I go to render a project by choosing "Render As" from the file menu it takes at least 3-4 minutes to open. During that time, Vegas becomes unresponsive and damn near maxes out the CPU. It doesn't matter what I put on the timeline, it still happens.

Vegas does normally boot in a reasonalbe amount of time though.

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BGil wrote on 4/2/2005, 11:16 PM
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johnmeyer wrote on 4/3/2005, 9:43 AM
Do you have a large number of events on the timeline (1,000 or more)?

How long is your project? Is it more than ten hours?

If you open Vegas, start a new project, and put a ten second video clip on the timeline, when you click on Render As, does it still take a long time?

One suggestion would be to re-boot the computer, go to the TEMP directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\TEMP, unless you changed it) and delete all the files there. You might also go to the Control Panel, and open the Internet Options icon. On the "General" tab, in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, click on the "Delete Files" tab, then check the "Delete all offline content" box and click on OK. This may take a minute or more to delete the thousands of files that may have accumulated. Finally, while you are cleaning house, empty your recycle bin.

If you haven't done any of this for awhile, this can delete thousands, even tens of thousands, of files. The overhead of searching through these files can cause the computer to slow down, although usually not as much as what you report. Also, this was a bigger problem with older FAT file systems than with NTFS, but many new computers still ship with their disks formatted as FAT32, so this may be an issue for you.
Orcatek wrote on 4/3/2005, 9:57 AM
alss try defragging you hard drive.

Usually a slow dialog box is due to it trying to get to a resource and it taking a long time to access it. A logical resource would be a harddrive.

Another issue would be if you have two hard drives and one of them has gone to sleep. I know that whenever I access my D drive after no use for a while, I need to wait for it to spin up.


BillyBoy wrote on 4/3/2005, 1:58 PM
I hope a "sleeping" drive doesn't need 3-4 minutes to wake up... unless it was partying the night before.

The usual suspects. Drive being accessed needs to be defragged, one or more files on the drive is corrupt, in use by another application,perhaps something you may have overlooked is the NUMBER of files on the drive being accessed. I have lots of image files. They all are arranged in folders via Windows Explorer. A few of the folders have thousands of files, it takes Photoshop a good while to display a file list too, but nowhere near minutes, I'm talking maybe 10 seconds or so.

Try setting up a new folder. Just call it junk or something. Change Vegas so it points to the new folder for saving renders. See if still takes forever.
BGil wrote on 4/22/2005, 11:17 PM
I downloaded the Vegas 6 demo and I didn't have anymore problemswith tghe "REnder as" box until I launched Vegas 5 again. Then all of a sudden Vegas 6 started having the same problem.
I defragged the hard drive completely and it's still having problems. Interstingly enough, if I wait for the "Render As" box to open then later in the same editing session I can open the "Render As" without experincing any problems. Soon as I close that instance of Vegas the problems start again though.

OT:
I just got this weird crash. I imported about a minute of DV footage cut it up really quick, no effects and one crossfade... I adjsted the amount of ram to 500 instead of 16mb's (I have one gig or ram)
then Vegas crashed the next time I tried to playback the timeline. It played for a couple seconds then it just crashed.

Sony Vegas 6.0 TRIAL
Version 6.0a (Build 99)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x42C IP:0x659D9C
In Module 'vegas60.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0x259D9C
Thread: VideoRender ID=0x904 Stack=0xA26F000-0xA270000
Registers:
EAX=0000042c CS=001b EIP=00659d9c EFLGS=00010206
EBX=0000001c SS=0023 ESP=0a26fbbc EBP=001f9f48
ECX=00000000 DS=0023 ESI=218d54b0 FS=003b
EDX=001f9f54 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00659D9C: 8B 08 89 4C 24 10 8B 50 ...L: 04 89 54 24 14 8B 58 08 ..T.X.
Stack Dump:
0A26FBBC: 083AF8A0 08000000 + 3AF8A0
0A26FBC0: 218D54B0 218D0000 + 54B0
0A26FBC4: 001F9F48 00140000 + B9F48
0A26FBC8: 0000001C
0A26FBCC: 00000000
0A26FBD0: 00000000
0A26FBD4: 0000001C
0A26FBD8: 00780000 00400000 + 380000 (vegas60.exe)
0A26FBDC: 0065A836 00400000 + 25A836 (vegas60.exe)
0A26FBE0: 218D54B0 218D0000 + 54B0
0A26FBE4: 001F9F48 00140000 + B9F48
0A26FBE8: 00000001
0A26FBEC: 00000003
0A26FBF0: 00000000
0A26FBF4: 0000001C
0A26FBF8: 083B3950 08000000 + 3B3950
> 0A26FC20: 0065AF06 00400000 + 25AF06 (vegas60.exe)
0A26FC24: 037539A0 03670000 + E39A0
0A26FC28: 0015D218 00140000 + 1D218
0A26FC2C: 00000001
0A26FC30: 00000003
> 0A26FCA8: 00650909 00400000 + 250909 (vegas60.exe)
0A26FCAC: 001F9F48 00140000 + B9F48
0A26FCB0: 037539A0 03670000 + E39A0
0A26FCB4: 0015D218 00140000 + 1D218
0A26FCB8: 00000003
> 0A26FCD4: 00651846 00400000 + 251846 (vegas60.exe)
0A26FCD8: 083AB780 08000000 + 3AB780
0A26FCDC: 001F9F48 00140000 + B9F48
0A26FCE0: 08270DB8 08000000 + 270DB8
0A26FCE4: 00000000
> 0A26FCEC: 006517F8 00400000 + 2517F8 (vegas60.exe)
- - -
0A26FFF0: 00000000
0A26FFF4: 00570850 00400000 + 170850 (vegas60.exe)
0A26FFF8: 00179AF8 00140000 + 39AF8
0A26FFFC: 00000000
BGil wrote on 4/22/2005, 11:21 PM
Even hitting Shift-M gives me the same problem.