My Rendering Quits!

[KarlB]

Hello,



I’m having some problems rendering my film. The film’s around 1 hour and 44 minutes (filmed 24P). First, in Vegas 6.0, I rendered each scene individually (MPEG-2, DVD Architect 24P. I also clicked the add audio option), for there’s a lot of different audio tracks, and when I put them all on one timeline, the sounds weren’t correct (because the audio levels were different in different scenes). So I rendered each scene individually, and put the scenes in order on another timeline. After I did this, I again rendered the film MPEG-2, and separately rendered the audio in AC3 format.
Here’s the problem: The film renders until there’s around 15 minutes to go, and then it quits (a pop-up comes up—I should render again just to quote it). How can I stop this from happening?
Much, much thanks!

 

[HorseFilms]

How are your hard drives formatted? If they're FAT32, your render will quit at 4GB (I believe).

 

[ProfD]

HorseFilms has it right...has nothing to do with VEGAS...it's your Hard Drive formatting.

ProfD

 

[KarlB]

Oh rats! What can I do (if anything) to change this? Any options?

Much thanks for the info!

 

[richke]

maybe render it in two parts...and add both files to a DVD...just a work around not a permanent fix.

 

[KarlB]

Hi, Richke,


Thanks for the response. I tried doing that in the past, but I had trouble with it. I put the first half of the screenplay in the timeline, but DVD Architect wouldn't let me add the second half of the film into the timeline.

 

[KarlB]

Okay, I think I have a solution (please let me know if I'm correct).

I can buy a new external hard drive, format it to NTFS, and then I can render the film, saving it to my new external hard drive. Right?

 

[Drew Ott]

I'm pretty sure you can change how it is formatted.

 

[David Jimerson]

You can reformat the drive without losing anything. Go into Windows Help and search on NTFS.

If you're going to render separate segments and then render them all together from a single timeline, DON'T render as MPEG-2 until you get to your final render. MPEG-2 is heavily-compressed and lossy, and second compression from MPEG-2 to MPEG-2 will result in a significant and likely noticeable loss in quality.

Always render to DV or Uncompressed (DV is fine) if you're planning to do that, and render to 24p DV using 2-3-3-2 pulldown.

 

[KarlB]

Much thanks, David! I'll try it out. I'm hoping that rending the individual scenes in a different format will make the end product smaller in file-size, as well (so it doesn't bottom-out at 4 GB). When I render, should I keep the video quality tab to 'good,' or should I (at eny point) change it to 'best?'

Thanks!

 

[dat5150]

Have you eliminated the possibility of overheated CPU?

 

[David Jimerson]

Much thanks, David! I'll try it out. I'm hoping that rending the individual scenes in a different format will make the end product smaller in file-size, as well (so it doesn't bottom-out at 4 GB). When I render, should I keep the video quality tab to 'good,' or should I (at eny point) change it to 'best?'

Thanks!

Well, you want to render to DV for the individual scenes, and you want at least "good," but I always do "best." DV has a constant bit rate and filesize, so you gain nothing by only going to "good" except it might render somewhat quicker. DV is about 12 gigs per hour no matter what.

If you're going to work with projects of 20 minutes or more, you really need to get your file system switched to NTFS.

 

[KarlB]

Hi, David,


Which selection is DV? I'll take your advice and won't render MPEG-2 twice (I'll render it MPEG-2 as a final render, but not for the indivdual scenes).

What should I render for the individual scenes? I wasn't sure which pull-down selection DV was.

Much, much thanks, David!