Sony Vegas Pro Black Screen Rendering

[JasonQuinn1992]

I was rendering my video project when the preview window became black, then video is still progressing at about 50% right now. However, Im wondering now if the video will not fully save because the screen is black. Can someone help me please

[budwzr]

Did you update to the latest build? How about the graphics driver?

[JasonQuinn1992]

I just restarted the rendering process and now it it working at about 25% done.. One thing ive been wondering though, Im adding a Soft Contrast to my video to to try to get rid of t6he graininess because I want to put some MP4 videos on DVD's, anyway, I have the setting at like 720p so the rendering is taking forever, my question that I would like some input on, do you think that have the video in HD is really going to clean up the video anymore the the Soft Contrast Effect?

Any ideas about this?

Thank you

[aedipuss]

you're rendering the wrong size and type for dvd. choose a template for mpeg-2 dvd video. 720x480i or 720x576i if pal. not 1280x720p.

[JasonQuinn1992]

So I want to get my file into a .MPEG format correct?

Nevermind I figured this out. Duh!

[JasonQuinn1992]

Is there an effect in Vegas that will help me reduce the pixelated look of the movie?

[aedipuss]

not for mpeg-2 if it's already in the source video it wouldn't help anyway, otherwise too low a bitrate is usually the problem. vegas has mpeg-2 templates for dvd video.