Rendered file is an .mp4.tmp file

[jonnyD]

I've tried to render a slideshow several times and end up with an .mp4.tmp file which I cannot open. I have made a render before from this slideshow and successfully rendered an .mp4 by using the following mouse clicks: Project>Make Movie>Save it to my hard drive>MP4>advanced options>Internet 1280x720 - 30p>Render. I'm doing the same thing currently but get the temp file now for some reason. Any idea why?

[theOZer]

Hello jonnyD, I know this sounds funny but have you already tried renaming the file, dropping the .tmp extension? theOZer

[jonnyD]

Well son-of-a-gun. That worked!
Thanks mate!

[Kent Frost]

Might be careful with that. It's not supposed to work that way and compatibility of that file with different players/burners may vary. I run into this most often with MOV files. I don't think MP4's work the same way in Vegas as MOV when rendering, but I know that MOV's render, the first 10% of the render is audio, and from there to 75% is the video rendering. The remaining 75-100% is transferring that render (which rests in a file named [videoname].mov.tmp) to a finalized MOV file. If the render fails during that last 25% when it's transferring, I'm stuck with that [videoname].mov.tmp file. Renaming the file doesn't work. I've run into a .tmp file for an MP4 render like what you've described but it's been a while. I seem to recall renaming it to see if it worked and the meat and potatoes of the video was there, but I want to say that aside from VLC player it didn't really work. Other players gave playback errors. If you run into that you might consider a re-render.

[jonnyD]

Thanks for the info. I'll let you know.