OddBirdman
Carbonite Member
I had an adventure in learning how much I don't know about rendering today. Ever since I've upgraded to CS6 from 5.5 the freeze ups during editing have been replaced by the 'Unknown Error when rendering.' My particular issue has been rendering .wmv files. I don't like the black bars around the .avi format, and stretching the film reduces the quality. I'm sure there is some way around this but I have no idea.
I tried rendering the piece 8 times in various formats, search through all the forums looking for solutions. Sometimes all it takes is a restart. Other times you can copy the timeline and then past it into a new sequence. I didn't like the look of the finished piece of film. I tried moving over to Media Encoder as a stand alone. I was introduced the fact that my computer has an audio sample of a sheep on it. When it fails it goes "Baaaaaaahaha."
I tried modifying the frame rate of the whole project to 29.97 but that didn't work either. I exported the whole finished piece to a P2 clip, and tried rendering that. I still got the error. I tried converting the .mxf and the .avi to .wmv in an external convertor which left me with interlaced film. Usually the error is caused by a bad effect somewhere on the timeline. It can also be caused by the Auto-save.
In the end the solution was to run it through Media Encoder, using one variable bit rate pass, and then wait for it to fail. It shows thumbnails of the progress so you can see the exact frame in the footage that is causing the hang up. I found the bad section of frames, removed them - which changed the end result a but from what I had intended.
I've had this problem consistently with this machine. I wish Adobe would put out a patch for that problem. I ended up spending 8 hours rendering something that only supposed to take take 25 minutes. There is scattered information out there of how to fix this. Anyone else come up with alternative solutions to this problem do the end film doesn't have to change?
I tried rendering the piece 8 times in various formats, search through all the forums looking for solutions. Sometimes all it takes is a restart. Other times you can copy the timeline and then past it into a new sequence. I didn't like the look of the finished piece of film. I tried moving over to Media Encoder as a stand alone. I was introduced the fact that my computer has an audio sample of a sheep on it. When it fails it goes "Baaaaaaahaha."
I tried modifying the frame rate of the whole project to 29.97 but that didn't work either. I exported the whole finished piece to a P2 clip, and tried rendering that. I still got the error. I tried converting the .mxf and the .avi to .wmv in an external convertor which left me with interlaced film. Usually the error is caused by a bad effect somewhere on the timeline. It can also be caused by the Auto-save.
In the end the solution was to run it through Media Encoder, using one variable bit rate pass, and then wait for it to fail. It shows thumbnails of the progress so you can see the exact frame in the footage that is causing the hang up. I found the bad section of frames, removed them - which changed the end result a but from what I had intended.
I've had this problem consistently with this machine. I wish Adobe would put out a patch for that problem. I ended up spending 8 hours rendering something that only supposed to take take 25 minutes. There is scattered information out there of how to fix this. Anyone else come up with alternative solutions to this problem do the end film doesn't have to change?
