Was editing video for my company & it froze while rendering...

atlantastrippers wrote on 11/25/2018, 4:38 PM

Wondering if anyone had any suggestions for me. I spent a lot of time editing a dance video and was rendering the video when it completely froze up in Vegas Pro halfway through. I do not want to close the video because I have lost a video once before and was extremely frustrated after spending hours on the video. I appreciate any suggestions or advice anyone has for me so I don't lose my video and can continue rendering my video for my business advertising online. Thank you!

HP Core i5 3210M CPU 2.5 GHz

Vegas Pro

Comments

EricLNZ wrote on 11/25/2018, 4:49 PM

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/important-information-required-to-help-you--110457/

j-v wrote on 11/25/2018, 5:33 PM

Did you also llok for the specifications of your program concerning your hardware used?

NickHope wrote on 11/25/2018, 8:34 PM

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-stop-vegas-pro-hanging-or-crashing-during-rendering--104786/

wjauch wrote on 11/25/2018, 8:34 PM

If you can, use windows to make a copy of your veg file for that project in another location. That way if the original veg file somehow becomes corrupted you have not lost your hours of work.

astar wrote on 11/25/2018, 8:48 PM

With a name like Atlantastippers, I am really going to need to see the video to determine where the problem is. ;) Unless its Atlantamalestrippers, then I can offer help without seeing the video...

If Vegas freezes to the point of not responding to the UI, you will have to kill it and hope you had autosave enable under preferences. There is a "prerendered file folder" in the project properties, that folder path can be cut and pasted into the address bar of windows explorer. In that folder are autosave.veg.bak files, which you can rename to .VEG files and open in Vegas. This might save some hours of work if your project was not saved very often.

Get in the habit of making a couple to ten edits and hitting CTRL+S, just like you would hitting a period at the end of a sentence.

Unless I am misunderstanding the question, and you want to get back the section of a long video that was already rendered. There is no way to do that as far as I know. Nick Hopes link is the best way to make sure your system is not overheating, or suffering some other problem during the heavy load of rendering.

karma17 wrote on 11/28/2018, 12:10 AM

My low tech solution is to split the video to render to the point just before it freezes. Then see if you can render the other half. If you can, then you can import those clips and re-render as one. Successfully rendered clips rarely or never crash upon re-rendering in my experience. There might be a touch of loss of quality if you do that but then you can always try rendering as a .mxf file and use those to re-render. Also, sometimes I find it helps to render to a different drive from the source file drive. Also, make sure your graphic drivers are up to date. Aside from that, you have to work down the laundry list of possibilities it could be.