Vegas Pro 10 will not complete Render As MP4

GeoffEdwards wrote on 6/27/2014, 4:53 AM

Hi
I am having trouble rendering my HD footage. I have followed advice in various forums and temporarily disabled my antivirus program and removed any unnecessary programs from the Start menu. I have completed one MP4 from an AVCHD recording 1920x1080 highest quality.

The present issue is that using 1920x1080 50p and rendering for best Internet, rendering starts ok but later stops. There are no error messages.

Render As settings are:
File name: test.MP4
Save as type: Sony AVC/MVC (*mp4,*m2ts,*avc)
Template: 1920x1080-25p.
The project has two roughly 4 minute clips joined with Text boxes and I needed to rotate and crop as the camera was fitted on a car and there was some deviation from plumb.

Videocamera: Panasonic SD90 Full HD
Vegas pro 10.0e (build 738) 64bit
Editing PC: Dell 490 Three HDD
Operating System
Platform: Windows 7
Version: 6.01.7601 (Service Pack 1)
Language: English
System locale: English
User locale: English

Processor
Class: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5130 @ 2.00GHz
Identifier: GenuineIntel
Number of processors: 4
MMX available: Yes
SSE available: Yes
SSE2 available: Yes
SSE3 available: Yes
SSSE3 available: Yes
SSE4.1 available: No
SSE4.2 available: No

Display
Primary: 1920x1080x32

Memory
Physical memory: 13,309.7 MB
Paging memory available: 26,617.6 MB

Comments

ushere wrote on 6/27/2014, 5:20 AM

have you turned off gpu?

Rory Cooper wrote on 6/27/2014, 5:23 AM

Geoff when I have this issue

disable resample on all your clips > go to first event right click select events to end > switches > disable resample.

Then go to the section where you were hanging and try a short render if it still hangs render mov DNXHD and transcode to MP4.

GeoffEdwards wrote on 6/27/2014, 11:38 AM

Hi ushere,

I don't have a CUDA enabled display adapter so is the GPU still used? If so how do I turn it off?

ushere wrote on 6/28/2014, 12:46 AM

what video card do you have?

check render templates > system tab - should be cpu only.

GeoffEdwards wrote on 6/28/2014, 9:08 AM

I have a Nvidia Quadro NVS 285 video card. On checking GPU is not available.

GeoffEdwards wrote on 6/28/2014, 9:20 AM

Thanks Rory and Ushere

I have managed to complete the render now. As far as I know I hadn't altered anything other than the Power options which I changed to high Performance from Balanced.

Looking at my notes I have already checked: No Resample and no virtual drives.

john_dennis wrote on 6/28/2014, 11:31 AM

Geoff,

Note that the Windows 7 "out-of the-box" settings for hard drives, even in the High Performance option, is less than might be required for some renders. You'll have to drill down in Change Plan Settings / Change Advanced Power Settings / Hard Disk and set a high number of minutes. The Never option seems to have disappeared.

Maybe that's a sacrifice to the energy saving gods for desktop operating systems.