Won't Render one project...

teaktart wrote on 8/4/2006, 10:04 PM

OK, I am totally stumpt here....

I''ve been rendering several projects in the past several days, everything cruising along as expected.

Then one 20 min. video project with nothing but a couple of titles and Vegas6d goes on and on and on for over 20 minutes adding up the time it will take to render and after it reads 8+hrs I cancel. Also, no activity on the preview window indicating it hasn't started to render my CFDI files. I tried to render to mpeg2 for DVDA3 and after numerous reboots, double check all settings,,no opacity issues, "good" render setting, etc. I just can't get this one project to render correctly so I try to just render to an 1080 intermediate avi so I can at least move it over to DVDA to render mpeg2, same ridiculous times ...zero movement on preview screen after 20min. no progress whatsoever. What's going wrong???

Ok, bring up another one-camera, simple, no effects project, same settings all around and its rendering away here, no problems...started rendering right off the bat.

Earlier, I did my "housecleaning", anti spyware cleanup, defrag, etc so that's not an issue since the second project is rendering as it should.

Of course, you know how it is....I want that first 20minute piece to be a part of a multi-file dvd so I'm stuck without being able to complete that with the hang up of this one simple 20min video.

Any ideas why one project would behave this way? Solutions?

Thanks for your brain power!
Teaktart

p.s >>> Just for the record the project that is currently rendering just fine is 50min long and will take about 2 hrs to render from CFDI to Mpeg2 which is reasonable....

Comments

Grazie wrote on 8/4/2006, 10:25 PM

Any big, BIG reso jpeg files in there?

teaktart wrote on 8/5/2006, 12:03 AM

No
Its about as simple a video as you can make...

My second render just finished in good time 50min/ 1:50 so that's cool.

I just tried to keep the "good" veg open after the good render and just replace the video clips to see if maybe they were corrupt. Froze me up/and out yet again. Then the timeline with the problem video played the audio w/ black screen and froze again.
So with all my settings as the were for my "good"render working.... it must be the clips themselves even though they look fine in WinMedia player....in fact, they look stunning.....love my Sony A1U....!

teaktart wrote on 8/5/2006, 12:57 AM

Update,
I opened a new Veg and placed the first 5 min clip added 3 simple titles and rendered to DVDA specs. It started and worked and got done so quick I missed the time reading. That's a start...

Brought in the second clip and V balked, froze, reopened, and now I'm rendering the second clip which is 9min and will take about 30min to render.

I have a dual core AMD 4400 x2, w/ 4GB memory, RAID, and the works, I'm watching my task mgr and both CPUs are reading 100% while rendering one timeline, Web, and basic Norton's on,etc. (and just watching the"process" tab on task mgr. nothing else is really taking much from the CPU, its 97+% Vegas with only one render going on....

Trying to type here (on other computer) with fingers crossed I can get my finished video even if in pieces!

Teaktart

teaktart wrote on 8/5/2006, 11:53 AM

Update again,

I found that one 5:34 clip was messed up. All the other clips played in WinMedia player fine when using that as a "preview" outside of Vegas.....the "bad" one would not play right in WM, would freeze up the player as well as Vegas each and every time...

I spent hours trying to figure out what the hang up might be....
As mentioned above I took several clips and rendered each one seperately as a test and that's how I found the one bad clip that would hang up and freeze up Vegas.

Recaptured that one clip, "replaced" it into the timeline and am now rendering the whole 2o min project and it seems to be moving along as it should.

Haven't had Cineform give me a bad clip like that before but that appears to be the culprit that cost me hours and hours of trying to isolate and fix the problem, but I do learn more each time how to approach a snag like this,,,,,,BTW this was the second clip of 5 clips so it wasn't at the beginning or the end of the overall capture...

Teaktart