Guys, I'm really starting to panic. I've been working on a short film project over the past few months and I have a deadline. I'm trying to render the project now and when the rendering process is 80% complete. An error message comes up saying that it could not be completed. I can't remember the exact wording of the error message but I've tried it twice now and it has happened on both occasions. The footage was shot on a Panasonic GH1 (Unhacked) in .mov format. The custom rendering settings that I am using are video format Motion JPEG B as it is my understanding that this is the same format that the GH1 records in. Can someone please help me out here because I have a deadline to finish this project???
Vegas Movie Studio 10 - Rendering Error
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How much space do you have on your hard drive?
Are you rendering to a different drive (good to do) or are you using the default settings (not so good to do)?
Is there a reason that you're rendering to this format?
Where is your video going to be shown (DVD, festival, web, etc.)
Mike
Are you rendering to a different drive (good to do) or are you using the default settings (not so good to do)?
Is there a reason that you're rendering to this format?
Where is your video going to be shown (DVD, festival, web, etc.)
Mike
Thanks for the reply Mike,
Further to my last post, just to specify, the error states "An error has occurred while creating the media file (file name). The file could not be created."
I wouldn't be overly familar with what settings to use while rendering. The entire project was shot in .mov format and I'm rendering the project to take snippets from it to use as a trailer that I want to create. The trailer is being put on at a short film night next week so I'm against the clock with trying to edit this trailer and create and add music for it as well.
In so far as rendering with these settings, I have rendered smaller projects before and they have never given me any difficulty. I am assuming that my problem probably is something to do with the size of the file that I am trying to render. I have saved stuff to another drive (an external hard drive) that I have but the hard drive gave me serious problems before when it crashed and I lost tonnes of files such as video and music files so I don't particularly trust it.
I have about 150GB of space left on my hard drive which isn't great but I assumed it would be enough for this project.
As for where the project will be shown, the answer is all of the above (DVD, festivals, web).
I know my problem lies somewhere in the settings that I am using for rendering. If you can help out in anyway, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Further to my last post, just to specify, the error states "An error has occurred while creating the media file (file name). The file could not be created."
I wouldn't be overly familar with what settings to use while rendering. The entire project was shot in .mov format and I'm rendering the project to take snippets from it to use as a trailer that I want to create. The trailer is being put on at a short film night next week so I'm against the clock with trying to edit this trailer and create and add music for it as well.
In so far as rendering with these settings, I have rendered smaller projects before and they have never given me any difficulty. I am assuming that my problem probably is something to do with the size of the file that I am trying to render. I have saved stuff to another drive (an external hard drive) that I have but the hard drive gave me serious problems before when it crashed and I lost tonnes of files such as video and music files so I don't particularly trust it.
I have about 150GB of space left on my hard drive which isn't great but I assumed it would be enough for this project.
As for where the project will be shown, the answer is all of the above (DVD, festivals, web).
I know my problem lies somewhere in the settings that I am using for rendering. If you can help out in anyway, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks for the replies guys.
Hi Mike,
The problem for me isn't what format that is preferred by the venue for this film night. The problem is trying to render the project so I can cut and edit various clips from the project so I can use them make a trailer with the footage from the project itself. I can start at square one again and use the original shots/footage that I filmed but that'd mean me having to go through the whole process of having to resyncing the audio, the color correction/grading, etc, etc. The film night just use DVDs so I can come to that hurdle when I get to it.
Hi MacGregor,
It's not the file name because I tried to just render a section (scene) of the project and named it differently. Unfortunately, I got the same result.
If I can put it to you this way; If you shot a project and the camera recorded the footage in .mov format, and after cutting and editing your footage on Vegas, what settings and format would you use to render it when:
1) you want to save to your hard drive so you can import it in as part of a new project?
2) you want to put it onto DVD?
Once again guys, the help is much appreciate.
Hi Mike,
The problem for me isn't what format that is preferred by the venue for this film night. The problem is trying to render the project so I can cut and edit various clips from the project so I can use them make a trailer with the footage from the project itself. I can start at square one again and use the original shots/footage that I filmed but that'd mean me having to go through the whole process of having to resyncing the audio, the color correction/grading, etc, etc. The film night just use DVDs so I can come to that hurdle when I get to it.
Hi MacGregor,
It's not the file name because I tried to just render a section (scene) of the project and named it differently. Unfortunately, I got the same result.
If I can put it to you this way; If you shot a project and the camera recorded the footage in .mov format, and after cutting and editing your footage on Vegas, what settings and format would you use to render it when:
1) you want to save to your hard drive so you can import it in as part of a new project?
2) you want to put it onto DVD?
Once again guys, the help is much appreciate.
Are you using a desktop or a laptop?
What are your computer specs (OS, CPU, RAM)?
The drive could be badly fragmented so defragging it is an option (although I hesitate to suggest it at such a critical point).
Have you cleaned out all the various Temp folders on your hard drive, especially the ones that Vegas uses?
Hard drives are very cheap these days so I'd buy a brand new one and try rendering to it to see what happens.
Have you tried rendering out in something other than MOV to see the render finishes?
I only use MOV files if I get then from a post house that uses Final Cut Pro.
My render format depends on what the use is.
For example, I render to MPEG-2 & AC-3 for DVDs, MXF for my local cable company, AVI if the file is going to my company webmaster, mp4 if it's meant for YouTube, etc.
Mike
What are your computer specs (OS, CPU, RAM)?
The drive could be badly fragmented so defragging it is an option (although I hesitate to suggest it at such a critical point).
Have you cleaned out all the various Temp folders on your hard drive, especially the ones that Vegas uses?
Hard drives are very cheap these days so I'd buy a brand new one and try rendering to it to see what happens.
Have you tried rendering out in something other than MOV to see the render finishes?
I only use MOV files if I get then from a post house that uses Final Cut Pro.
My render format depends on what the use is.
For example, I render to MPEG-2 & AC-3 for DVDs, MXF for my local cable company, AVI if the file is going to my company webmaster, mp4 if it's meant for YouTube, etc.
Mike
Hi Mike,
Thanks again for the quick replies. I use a Dell Inspiron desktop that is about 4 or 5 years old. I know it's probably time to move onto a newer and faster model, but at the moment I can't afford it. It has a 2.2Ghz processor and has 3 Gb of Ram and it uses Windows XP SP3. I tried rendering a smaller scene again earlier and it rendered fine in the MOV settings that I had previously used.
I have only been using Vegas since March so render settings is still new to me. The reason that I render in MOV is probably because the format of the footage that I import is already in MOV format so why change.
I was originally having playback issues last week so I have actually edited one or two of the bigger scenes from my overall project as one individual project on Vegas. My plan was to render each of these individual projects and then import them back onto the main project.
Just one question for you Mike, if you wanted to render a project and then import it back into Vegas for further editing, what render settings would you use in order to import it back in??
Thanks again for the quick replies. I use a Dell Inspiron desktop that is about 4 or 5 years old. I know it's probably time to move onto a newer and faster model, but at the moment I can't afford it. It has a 2.2Ghz processor and has 3 Gb of Ram and it uses Windows XP SP3. I tried rendering a smaller scene again earlier and it rendered fine in the MOV settings that I had previously used.
I have only been using Vegas since March so render settings is still new to me. The reason that I render in MOV is probably because the format of the footage that I import is already in MOV format so why change.
I was originally having playback issues last week so I have actually edited one or two of the bigger scenes from my overall project as one individual project on Vegas. My plan was to render each of these individual projects and then import them back onto the main project.
Just one question for you Mike, if you wanted to render a project and then import it back into Vegas for further editing, what render settings would you use in order to import it back in??
Since your source material is in MOV format and there are a lot of encoding parameters that I don't understand about that format, I;d either do uncompressed QuickTime (huge files) or one of the lossless codecs such as Lagarith or the UT codec.
If anyone else here has other ideas, please feel free to suggest them.
Lagarith: http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html
UT: http://umezawa.dyndns.info/archive/utvideo/utvideo-9.0.3-x86.msi
Mike
If anyone else here has other ideas, please feel free to suggest them.
Lagarith: http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html
UT: http://umezawa.dyndns.info/archive/utvideo/utvideo-9.0.3-x86.msi
Mike
Hi Mike,
Thanks again for the replies. Further to my problem, I have now tried to render the project out in Main Concept AVC format (I read somewhere that it is one of the best render settings to use). The project renders fine onto my hard drive but when I watch the playback, I notice that there is a very noticeable flickering when there is large movements in the picture (ie. a subject turning his head or a car driving past). I have tried different variations of this using different bit rates but I still see the same loss of quality in the rendered file. One thing that I will point out is that when watching the playback of the project on the Vegas timeline before rendering, the project looks absolutely great so the problem is definitely something to do with the render settings.
If you were in my situation, ie. you shot footage in MOV format (1280x720 at 30fps), and cut and edited this footage on Vegas, what render settings would you use?
Thanks again for the replies. Further to my problem, I have now tried to render the project out in Main Concept AVC format (I read somewhere that it is one of the best render settings to use). The project renders fine onto my hard drive but when I watch the playback, I notice that there is a very noticeable flickering when there is large movements in the picture (ie. a subject turning his head or a car driving past). I have tried different variations of this using different bit rates but I still see the same loss of quality in the rendered file. One thing that I will point out is that when watching the playback of the project on the Vegas timeline before rendering, the project looks absolutely great so the problem is definitely something to do with the render settings.
If you were in my situation, ie. you shot footage in MOV format (1280x720 at 30fps), and cut and edited this footage on Vegas, what render settings would you use?