Sony Vegas Render Problem

[xfam0usx]

Do you have any idea on problems with Sony Vegas, I have been having this problem: Just about two weeks ago, my Sony Vegas started giving me hell on rendering. Anytime I try to render any part of my new movie, SV either closes, gives me an error message, or acts like it is going to render but sits at 0% for hours while the timer keeps counting.

Whenever It gives me an error, it tells me that I don't have enough memory (RAM) to render, but I have been using SV on this computer for almost a year now.. Whenever I try to render the timeline as an .avi, it crashes also..

The RARE times it does start to render, it renders the audio all the way up to where the vid starts and then crashes.. Only in .avi will it render ANY part of the timeline..

I have reinstalled SV and tried many troubleshooting options.. I have Vista x64, 4GB of RAM, quad core 1.8GHz, and an nvidia geforce 9400gt slightly overclocked...

PS: I tried SV 8.0 but it won't even open for me, it just crashes upon loading

[aedipuss]

did you check task manager to see if you have been infected with a trojan/virus and it's eating up ram/cpu? how much free ram is reported?

uninstalling then reinstalling vegas would cleear it up if there were no other problems with your computer.


and welcome to the forum!

[xfam0usx]

Thanks for the welcome.. Vista x64 takes up about 1.3-2.0GB of RAM, about 1.7gb normally... So when im trying to do SV rendering and watching the Task Manager to see how much RAM is available, I do have about 2-2.5GB, WAYYYY more than enough...

[aedipuss]

well something changed if it used to work with the same source videos. try a memory test to see if a chip went bad. try to recall what you installed just before the problem started - maybe a program mucked it up?

[edDV]

Any chance any of your hard disks are near full? Some Vegas errors mention RAM when they mean the tmp or scratch file (Version 9 calls this the "Pre-rendered files folder") that you select on the new project page. Vegas needs the tmp space for intermediate encoding steps.

For better performance, it is best to keep this folder off the OS drive but if your selected drive gets near full, Vegas moves the tmp folder back to the C: drive without telling you.

[xfam0usx]

well something changed if it used to work with the same source videos. try a memory test to see if a chip went bad. try to recall what you installed just before the problem started - maybe a program mucked it up?

how do i run a memory test?

I have a 600GB harddrive, i always have at least 50-150GB left even after recording