Vegas 6 render issues- anyone else have them?

musman wrote on 7/21/2005, 9:46 PM
Just downloaded the latest updates to Vegas 6 and DVDA3 and hoped this would solve the super long mpeg2 render issues I've been having. No luck, same problem. A 2 minute project with crossfades and only a very small part with color correction was at 15 minutes and saying it needed another 20 min to complete the render when I stopped it. Tried again and same result. Tried a frameserve render to Vegas 5 and experienced the same lengthy render time before I stopped it. Tried an ordinary avi render and experienced a crash and unvoluntary computer restart just as Vegas 6 was nearly finished with the render.
Exported an edl, opened that in Vegas 5, reapplied the color correction (fades were in tact already), and rendered at same mpeg2 settings. It finished in under 3.75 minutes.
Just wondering if anyone else is having the same kinds of problems and if there is a solution of some sort. Thanks for any input!

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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 7/21/2005, 11:08 PM
no - however I noticed some VERY poor performance with my MPG2 render times when i had very little space left on the HD (about enough space for the 1:35hr render). WOW - took like 5 hours with just some basic color correction done to it. It took about 1:50hr when I shot it on to the drive before (same drive just had more space on it before). Anyway, just make sure that the threads are turned down to 1 of 2 if you only have a single proc (HT doesn't make a big dif.) that always makes it slow down. Hope that helps (don't really know how it could - but I wanted to type appearently, so there you go - HA!

Dave
musman wrote on 7/22/2005, 1:38 AM
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't think that is the problem as Vegas 5 renders the same file to the same place in a respectable amount of time.
I did change the number of threads, it was on 4 and my 3 year old p4 2.4 I figure has only 1 thread. But, 1 thread and the same terrible render time. Same changing to 2 threads.
Could this be some kind of software conflict that Vegas 5 didn't have? I spoke to Tim Duncan (Vegas guy, not the basketball player) when he came to town and he said the only real problem with Vegas 6 was the media manager did not work properly with some mother boards. Could something like this be the problem?
Thanks again for nay help!
musman wrote on 7/22/2005, 3:17 AM
Did a couple uninstall and reinstall and things seem to be working now. Weird though, I've never needed to do that before. Oh well.