Totally black Renders

sging1 wrote on 9/15/2015, 12:34 PM
I set my PC to render 3 Blu-Ray files last night. The files turned out to be just MB's when they should have been GB's and all came through as all black.

I then after looking into it, unticked "close media files when not the active application" and this seems to have cured it. My question is why did this happen since I have been editing and rendering with Vegas for quite a few years and never had this problem before. And whats the consequences of unticking this box.

I also notice lately that if I left Vegas and went into a another problem and leaving Vegas in the background and then went back in again it took ages to establish itself for me to continue. Is this related to this same issue as now I have unticked that box it seems quicker to respond. Just baffled on what has changed.

Stephen

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Warper wrote on 9/16/2015, 4:30 AM
If you have this "close media files when not the active application" ticked, every time you switch to another application, Vegas closes all media files it's using. When you return to Vegas, it finds files on disk and loads them to show your preview etc.
Why it is so useful? You can change media files while Vegas is inactive. You can edit title picture in Paint/Photoshop, fix audio file in Sound Forge or even replace media files with proxies or something.

When you untick the option, Vegas will keep files open blocking you from modifying (most of) them. It keeps all files ready to use immediately upon switching back.
If you need to modify files in current Vegas project, you can save project, promptly close Vegas and proceed with modifications.

Load time is generally not big enough for editing formats, but it can be noticable for large projects and complicated files.
sging1 wrote on 9/16/2015, 10:06 AM
Warper, thanks for explaining that, its very helpful. My projects are weddings and they are quite complicated by the time I get to near completing them, with a small mixture of different footage etc transitions and many FX. We also use drone footage with AVCHD and GoPro mixed in and some nested footage.

The only thing I cant work out is why I have to now turn it off to render to stop black renders when its been fine for all my other projects.

Cheers