Time out when rendering to wav

Caruso wrote on 9/22/2001, 1:23 PM
I like to use VV (2g) from within Win2000 to capture audio only from my Sony TRV103 digi8 via firewire. Of course, at present, I have to capture the video as well (usually the video signal is blank because I recorded audio only via the camcorder's VTR mode).

This morning, I captured one of these tapes using the new Vidcap utility included with the VideoFactory 2.0 demo (not sure if this makes any difference).

As soon as the capture is complete, I drag the resultant avi file to the VV timeline, delete the video track, rough edit the audio track (just to eliminate any extraneous garbage from the beginning/end of my recording session), then, select and render the entire track to WAV for further editing from within my wave editor.

This morning, twice, I received a message that an error had occurred: "Unable to merge wav file . . . process (or some similar word) has timed out."

I switched the destination of the desired wav file to another drive, and the rendering proceeded to completion correctly.

The two drives are identical (5400 rpm Maxtor external firewire), and both have plenty of free space.

Any thoughts about what caused the problem . . . I've not encountered it before.

Thanks in advance.

Caruso

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Caruso wrote on 9/27/2001, 4:04 AM
Still looking for an answer to this one. This time out message can appear while I'm editing a .veg file, has appeared and, subsequently, stalled several render sessions. I thought it might have something to do with which drive I was rendering to, but, that appears not to be the case.

Fortunately, I was able to simply start the render sessions over from the beginning. Rarely has this message cropped up more than once during a session, so, the time lost to it is minimal, but, I forsee a day when some very long render process is interrupted near the end . . . I won't be happy.

Most of all, I want too understand what's causing this and what I need do to eliminate it.

Thanks again.

Caruso
Caruso wrote on 9/29/2001, 2:00 PM
Oh, boo-booey-hoo. Looks like I'm alone so far on this one. It's really annoying. Was in the process of rendering a 1-hour project when this little problem reared up and swatted me down at the 55-minute mark.

There must be something I've set up wrong. Anybody out there who can help me?

Thanks.

Caruso