Render Problems in Sony Vegas Pro 8

[Calenel]

I work as a video editor for my church and I have been editing a children's production that my church performed a few years back. I have spent quite some time editing this project, and I've rendered it plenty of times before to preview it. Now, I'm basically done with it, but it will not render correctly.

I need the file in avi. When I start the render, everything goes fine until the end. When the render is almost over, an error message comes up. I do not quite remember what it says. The file always save to the correct spot, but either the audio doesn't work, the video is jerky, or both.

This has happened multiple times and I am stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Chuck Engels]

Hi Calenel, Welcome to Muvipix

Although we are primarily a haven for Adobe product users we are very fortunate to have some experienced Vegas users as well. I do know that the error message would be very important, is it possible to post the message please? Another thing that will most likely help troubleshoot your problem is to know a little more about your project, what type of video and format are the source files (mpeg, dv-avi, avchd,...) and what type of effects, transitions and any music you may have added.

All in all, the more you can tell us the easier it will be to help. Paul or one of the other guys may have a real quick answer also, but just in case it would be best to privide as much info as possible

Thanks,
Chuck

[Chuck Engels]

By the way, I also do a lot of video, audio and lighting work at my church.
We use Premiere Pro and Final Cut however, what made you decide on Vegas?

[Paul LS]

If you could please answer Chuck's questions that would help. Also what are your export settings? Are you exporting from Vegas as follows:
Save as Type: Video for Windows, Template: NTSC DV

[Calenel]

Thanks for the help Chuck!

The source files are all avi files. The transitions mostly used were fades. I the master audio tracks to the project. The camera audio was bad quality, so I am using the audio recorded by our sound board.

Also, I am rendering straight to a 500 gb hard drive. It has 200 gb free, so I know it is not a space issue. I've saved it straight to here plenty of times before. I cannot save straight to my computer because there is little space and this is a large project.

Currently, I am rendering a smaller project to see if the error message will appear, and if so, to post what it says.

[Calenel]

My pastor chose Vegas. Our former media director suggested it. When I was hired, the program had already been bought, chosen, and installed.

[Calenel]

Paul, thank you so much! I changed the template and I believe that fixed the problem.

I am positive it was set to that it the past. Perhaps someone was playing around on this computer and changed it. That would explain why my renders used to work.

I rendered a smaller file and it worked this way, so hopefully it should work for my large project.

Thank you all very much!

[Chuck Engels]

Glad Paul came through (again )

Just in case you have other issues this might help;

One thing I do know that is common among most editing programs, when rendering it uses temp files on the primary drive to store lots of stuff. If you are running short of space on your primary drive that could be the whole cause of your problem. My guess is that you have rendered and built up so many temp files that you can't completely render the project anymore do to lack of space, not on the destination drive but on your primary drive. Free up a few Gigabites (10 - 20) on your primary drive and give it a try again

[Chuck Engels]

And be sure to check out our Motion Backgrounds in the Products section http://muvipix.com/products.php?maincat ... bcat_id=18 , lots of great stuff and some really nice free stuff too http://muvipix.com/products.php?maincat ... bcat_id=10

[Calenel]

The render just finished and it worked fine. Thanks so much! I think I figured out why it used to work, but stopped working. We recently switch to Vegas 8 from Vegas 7. This was probably what caused the mixup.

Thanks again guys.

Chuck, I looked at those backgrounds, and I believe my church has some of those. Perhaps we have bought from you guys before.

[Chuck Engels]

Glad to hear you are back up and running !

We have lots of backgrounds and add 20 or more every month. There are quite a few free ones, and we have some very nice High Definition Backgrounds too. For $49.95/year you can download them all, the best deal on the internet
That price will be changing later this year