Won't Render even 5 seconds!

FerryboatDreamer wrote on 9/27/2008, 3:41 PM
i've been using Vegas movie studio for a while now, and for months now it's not letting me render more than 20 seconds. i make 4 minute vids regularly and i have to cut them down to 20 seconds or less and save them under diff names to render them, and sometimes that doesn't even work. it always "errors" and the errors are always different. i have tried uninstalling it and re-installing it more than once. i'm wondering if i'm low on virtual memory, but i can't figure out if i am, i haven't had any elerts to it? please, someone help, !

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Eugenia wrote on 9/27/2008, 4:09 PM
How much RAM does your PC have? How much free hard drive space too?

And please send us some of these errors here too, and tell us what kind of source footages these are.
FerryboatDreamer wrote on 9/27/2008, 6:34 PM
i can't remember what all the errors have said, but the most frequent is "unspecified error" or "an exception has occured".

my computer has 1.87 gb RAM
total size of harddrive is 227gb...Free space available is 62.3gb

and i'm not sure what you mean by source footages? i rip dvds i own into wmv format. that's the format i import and render all my videos to.
Eugenia wrote on 9/27/2008, 8:03 PM
Try exporting in another format. If you own Platinum 9, export in Sony AVC instead.
Keyan wrote on 10/1/2008, 8:36 AM
I have had similar issues when rendering high-res and high frame rate .wmv. You probably need to increase the size if your swap file to a large hard number. In my case, I created a 5gb swap file on another hard drive in addition to the windows managed swap file on my boot drive. Even then, I still had it error out once. I find that if you get everything ready, reboot, and then only open up Vegas and start to render that it seemed to avoid having the issue.

Keyan wrote on 10/1/2008, 8:39 AM
The problem with exporting in AVC is that only a Blu-ray player can display it out in your home theater, and not everyone has one.

If he's like me he's exporting in .wmv to watch it on an xbox 360 in his living room, and the 360 does not currently support AVC.
Eugenia wrote on 10/1/2008, 12:23 PM
This is wrong. The XBoX360 supports .mp4 AVC (h.264/AAC) just fine. You simply need to have a firmware newer than last year, and the bitrate should not be over 10 mbps. Other than that, the XBoX360 and the Sony PS3 are perfect for AVC playback.
Keyan wrote on 10/2/2008, 10:23 AM
Really. Ha, I will have to give that a try. You'd think I would know these things.

Do I need to install a codec or which render format do I need to pick in Vegas? I'm guessing it's not Sony AVC... And I'm not at my Vegas PC at the moment.
Eugenia wrote on 10/2/2008, 12:46 PM
Export in Sony AVC .mp4 h.264/AAC 720/30p at 5mbps (customize it to be like that), and as long as your firmware is a new one (connect your xbox360 to the internet to make sure), your video will playback. You will need Platinum 9 to get access to the customization of the Sony AVC codec.
Keyan wrote on 10/2/2008, 1:22 PM
Yeah, I have new firmware and 9. However I want to be able to do full HD res, which I can do with .wmv. I'll mess with the settings and see what plays what doesn't.
Keyan wrote on 10/3/2008, 6:13 AM
Looks like the 360 can play back higher res AVC, however, IMO, the image quality is inferior to .wmv and the file sizes are comparable. I can create 1440x1080-60p WMV that looks amazing coming through the 360 and playback is extremely smooth with full surround sound retained.

AVC is only coming through as stereo with larger file sizes for lower res images, and the color and clarity is not as good.

AVC IS a much, much faster render vs. WMV however.