Vegas Crashes Creating an Mpeg2

Sab wrote on 11/29/2002, 12:49 PM

Hi,

For some reason, whenever I try to render a timeline to mpeg2, Vegas crashes. I'm sure I've missed something simple. I can render the timeline to an avi and create an mpeg2 in Premiere using the Canopus softencoder, but this is an extra step I'd rather not take. In fact, since getting Vegas about a month ago, the only time I turn to Premiere is for creating custom Smart Sound tracks.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mike

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reamenterprises wrote on 11/30/2002, 7:48 AM

Mike,

Unfortunately, I can ot help you. I am experiencing the same thing, which at one point in time I did not. Just one day it started doing it. I thought it was my system, with 98SE. I am now using a new, better system with XP and I am still experiencing the same scenario.

For all of you, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Chad

SonyEPM wrote on 11/30/2002, 9:11 AM

are you running Vegas 3.0c?

What are your render settings?

Sab wrote on 11/30/2002, 7:09 PM

Hi and thanks for the reply,

I hate when this happens, but tonight I'm not experiencing any problems. The only difference is instead of a 30 minute program I tried an 11 minute one.

I have V3.0c running on XP Pro with plenty of hard drive space. I tried program streams, elentary streams, very high data rates in both CBR and VBR and working great.

I know I should be happy (and I am) but this is frustrating. I'll post again if anything changes.

Mike

SonyEPM wrote on 12/2/2002, 9:22 AM

Sab: what are your system specs?

pcfreakx wrote on 12/2/2002, 6:37 PM

GUys I got the same problem. Athlon 1.4G Thunderbird, 512MB RAM. I am fine with anything else on my system. I am running Vegas 3.0C. I only have crashes when I render out to MPEG2 and even then only 2/3 of the time. However EVERY time I try to export as separate streams, it crashes in about 15 minutes. Sometimes it brings down the whole OS and sometimes not. I am running WIndows XP SP1.

PCFreak

Sab wrote on 12/2/2002, 11:59 PM

Hi, thanks for the reply,

This system is based on an Athlon 1.2, 1 gig of ram, 120 gig system drive, Win XP, Gigabyte Mobo with AMD 761 chipset, Audigy Sound with Firewire, nVidia TNT video with 64 megs of ram, Vegas 3.0c. Additionally, there is a removable hard drive, and a Pioneer A04.

I might add that after using Premiere for 5 years, Vegas is a breath of fresh air. We also have 2 Storm systems which are also flawless performers but I keep reaching for this machine with Vegas.

Mike

vitalforces wrote on 12/3/2002, 12:18 AM

I just rendered a few MPEG-2's over the weekend with no problem, on VV3.0c, but my XP Home does NOT have SP-1. I was warned to avoid that service pack and wait for SP-2 when it exists. The main clash, though, I hear (strictly hearsay) of SP-1 is with hardware drivers--though that could include video, I suppose. (I have a Dell 2.53 with nVidia GeForce 4 MX.)

Wonder if SoFo has any thoughts of building a plug-in for authoring DVDs/CDs with menu screens...?

vitalforces wrote on 12/3/2002, 12:20 AM

I should post a P.S. to the above. Don't know if it's significant, but I rendered my MPEG-2s as loop regions within a timeline. It was the whole timeline (10 mins.), but it was bordered by the "blue" loop bar above it.

pcfreakx wrote on 12/3/2002, 9:50 AM

You may have a point about video drivers. I have a GF 4 as well (TI4600) and I have problems getting some games to work. There have been many forums that pointed their fingers at the GF4 and an AMD/VIA combo.

pcfreakx wrote on 12/3/2002, 9:57 AM

Addendum - If I change my audio to 224kbps instead of 320, it renders fine as elemental streams. Seems like the higher end audio causes it to dump. Any ideas?