Vegas Pro 12 Rendering Issue - Video Freezes

CaptainCatholic wrote on 8/24/2014, 11:00 AM
Hello everyone!

I have a puzzling issue which I've spent hours trying to figure out, but no luck. I have been trying to render a 3.5 minute project with Sony Vegas Pro 12. It's obviously a short movie, but there are many effects (HitFilm Ultimate 2 plug-ins, Sony Cookie Cutter FX, etc.). I have been using the Sony AVC/MVC (*.mp4;*.m2ts;*.avc): AVCHD 1920x1080-60i Codec, which according to Sony Vegas matches my project settings. However, I keep getting bizarre glitches after rendering my footage using this Codec.

The Good News: It does render all the way through to the point where Vegas says it's 100% Complete, and I can then watch my rendered movie. The audio seems to be flawless.

The Bad News: However, toward the end of the movie, the video starts to freeze on selected frames (the audio continues to play through at the correct speed while the video just freezes on one frame every 5 seconds before moving on to the next frame).

So I tried splitting the project up into two parts. I rendered each part individually. Each of these parts were rendered perfectly - no video problems. Then, I put both parts into a new project on the Vegas timeline and tried rendering both parts as one part. For some reason, I got the same video freezing error. So bizarre! You would think that the error would be when I rendered the two parts separately...

I did try rendering the same project using two other Codecs:

- Sony AVC/MVC (*.mp4;*.m2ts;*.avc): Internet 1920x1080-30p
- MainConcept AVC/AAC (*.mp4;*.avc): Internet HD 1080p Test:

According to Sony Vegas, neither of these Codecs matched my project settings. However, I was able to render the video successfully using both of these Codecs. Unfortunately, I don't like that the picture quality is inferior using these two Codecs (it makes the motion in the movie look very blurry compared to the non-Internet version of Sony AVCHD).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get this to work?

Here's my specs:

Computer: Dell Precision T3600, 635 W
Processor: Four Core XEON E5-1620, 3.6GHz
RAM: 8GB NECC RAM (4x2GB), DDR3 UDIMM 1600
Graphics Card: 1 GB NVIDIA Quadro K600
OS: Windows 7
1TB SATA Hard Drive

Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks so much!!!
~ Tony

Comments

OldSmoke wrote on 8/24/2014, 11:21 AM
Have you tried switching off GPU acceleration? The Quadro K600 is first of a "Keppler" card which isn't well supported and also with 192CUDA cores not powerful enough to take any advantage of it.

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

NCARalph wrote on 8/24/2014, 11:22 AM
Did you try it with GPU rendering off?
CaptainCatholic wrote on 8/24/2014, 11:26 AM
Thank you both for your replies! I should have mentioned that - yes, I did in fact render it with the GPU acceleration turned off. I also tried rendering the project with the Dynamic RAM Preview set to 250 MB, then 0 MB, then 1 MB. Neither worked. I'm now trying to render it with the Dynamic RAM Preview set to 50 MB. We'll see if that does anything...

By the way, OldSmoke, what is a 192CUDA core? (Sorry, I'm a video-editing noob!). Thank you both again! Please let me know if it would be helpful for me to post one of my glitchy videos.
OldSmoke wrote on 8/24/2014, 11:30 AM
Where did you switch of GOU acceleration? How big is the project? Where are you rendering to?
CUDA cores are bit like CPU cores, the more you have the better; that is the simple answer. 400 and above is a good starting point for GOU acceleration. Which driver are you using?

Proud owner of Sony Vegas Pro 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and now Magix VP15&16.

System Spec.:
Motherboard: ASUS X299 Prime-A

Ram: G.Skill 4x8GB DDR4 2666 XMP

CPU: i7-9800x @ 4.6GHz (custom water cooling system)
GPU: 1x AMD Vega Pro Frontier Edition (water cooled)
Hard drives: System Samsung 970Pro NVME, AV-Projects 1TB (4x Intel P7600 512GB VROC), 4x 2.5" Hotswap bays, 1x 3.5" Hotswap Bay, 1x LG BluRay Burner

PSU: Corsair 1200W
Monitor: 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2713HM (2560x1440)

CaptainCatholic wrote on 8/24/2014, 11:43 AM
To switch off the GPU acceleration, I went to Options, Preferences, Video, and then I switched 'GPU acceleration of Video Processing' to off.

I have been trying to render the project to an MP4 file (using the Sony AVC/MVC (*.mp4;*.m2ts;*.avc): AVCHD 1920x1080-60i Codec) on my external hard drive. I'd like to watch the file on my computer, be able to burn it to a DVD, and upload it to YouTube. Is that what you mean by where am I rendering to? (Sorry if I misunderstood your question!)

When I render it to an MP4 file using Sony AVC, the size of the project is 419,298 KB (409 MB).

You asked which drive I am using - my apologies, where can I find that information? (Not sure what a driver is!)

Thanks so much again, Old Smoke!

Former user wrote on 8/24/2014, 11:48 AM
There is also an option to turn GPU when rendering. That is in the render options after you select a codec.
CaptainCatholic wrote on 8/24/2014, 12:00 PM
No kidding! So it sounds like you're saying I only turned GPU acceleration off for working within the Vegas timeline, but it's still turned on for rendering? Is that correct?

Thank you very much!
CaptainCatholic wrote on 8/24/2014, 12:12 PM
Hi again Dave! I'm taking a look at the render options now. After selecting the Sony AVCHD Codec, I clicked on 'Customize Template,' 'Video,' and then I went down to 'Encode Mode.' It looks like there are several options under Encode Mode. Currently, it's set to 'Automatic.' However, I can also select the following options:

- Render using CPU only
- Render using GPU if available
- Intel Quick Sync Video (quality)
- Intel Quick Sync Video (speed)

Would you recommend that I select 'Render using CPU only?' Or were you referring to something else?

Thanks again!
john_dennis wrote on 8/24/2014, 12:12 PM
That's correct.
Render Using CPU Only. You might want to save a custom template so you don't get surprised in the future.
CaptainCatholic wrote on 8/24/2014, 1:42 PM
Hi John! Amazing, it worked! Can't believe it. Thank you all so much, really appreciate the help!

For anyone else who experiences the same problem, see above - solution found!
CaptainCatholic wrote on 7/5/2016, 12:02 AM
Hello all!

Funny enough, 2 years later, and all of a sudden I'm having the same problem I was having 2 years ago!

For the past 2 years, my videos have been rendering great after turning the GPU acceleration off. However, for the past few weeks, my issue seems to have returned - after rendering videos, I play them on Windows Media Player (like always), and the video will start to freeze toward the end (the audio plays straight through, but the video gets choppy and then freezes). Right now, I'm only trying to render a very simple 10 minute video - really nothing special here, I have no idea why my computer would have any problem rendering this video. Simple cuts, no effects (other than Brightness/Contrast).

Are there any other solutions to this problem?

Thank you so much once again for all the help!
Tony