No error at all. It just stops rendering. The "time elapsed" clock keeps ticking, the program itself freezes. Very weird. I'm really hoping i CAN get it up and going! :-)

Had the same thing happen to me (I was unable to copy the error information). I had left my dual box running at work last night...about 84% completion point it stop rendering also....but the clock kept ticking away. I started the render again to see if I could duplicate the error or see if it hanged at the same spot. It is about 10 minutes from finishing (been rendering for 8 hours). The only thing I did different this time is shut down the media manager before I rendered....

I tried shutting down the media manager also, but it still did the same thing. I've tried with hyperthreading on and off, rendering to all kinds of different formats, network rendering on and off....still the same results every time. The most I've been able to render is about 5:00 minutes worth of a 15 minute project. I can't think of anything else to try.

Is there some kind of problem with the file at the 5:00 mark? Try rendering a selection just up to the 4:59 mark. Then try rendering a selection from the 5:01 mark to the end.

What happens?

Actually, I tried rendering a loop region thru the 5:00 minute mark and it went fine.....just rendered from about the 3:00 minute mark to the 8:00 minute mark.

Do you have your "temp" and "preview" directories set to A/V drives or to the Vegas default of "My Documents" (usually your boot drive).

Could you just be running out of room on your preview drive?

I have the temp & prerender directories set to the default....but I've plenty of room on that drive. Should they be on my A/V drive? I just spoke with tech support and they suggested unstalling, deleting the "Shared Plugins" folder (in the /Sony) folder.

I've had situations where the boot drive fills up with render files and all everything grinds to a halt. It's generally a good idea to put them on another drive just to avoid this problem, and it probably speeds up renders a bit.

If you've got plenty of room, though, I don't think it would be causing your problem. I'd follow the tech support advice.

Well, I tried what tech support suggested, and I gota whopping 2:54 worth of rendered video.....less than what I had gotten before. I'm stumped.

I believe this must be related to a bug I reported during beta-testing. I couldn't render a quicktime movie that I had been given from Final Cut Pro. However, I discovered that it WOULD render in Vegas 5. Then I tried resetting all the prefs to the defaults in Vegas 6 and rendering again and it worked. I then sent a list of my prefs for the Vegas team and they thought they had fixed this bug - that it was related to the new multi-threaded rendering feature.

I had thought that it had to do with the dynamic ram preview that I had changed from 16megs to 0. Try resetting all the prefs to their defaults and see if you can render then. This will help know if it's a system thing or a pref thing.

I was reporting the render bugs too, but theyre still happening sometimes at random

sigh

Yeah, this is a project that I just rendered in Vegas 5 several days ago. I'll try your suggestion of resetting my prefs and try again. Thanks for the advice.

Well, I reset to the factory defaults and got the same result. Stopped rendering after 4:13 of rendered video. It seems to be stopping at random points in the project. Program hangs as before. double sigh.

Do you have any complex 3d stuff in track motion with pans?I have had this combination totally stop the render in V5.

JJK

Yes, i do have a 3D title crawl, and lots of track motion / pans on still pics. It worked fine in Vegas 5 (although it took quite awhile to render). But in V6, it starts out fine & quits during the process.

Perhaps, with Vegas 6 using "more" of the processing power available to it now that it has been optimized, your CPU temperature is also going up? I remember that other versions of Vegas, while rendering, would often expose inadequate cooling.

Just a thought,
Kevin

I'll check that....but I think don't think it's a temperature issue. Thanks for the input.

I have been having a render problem for a little while now - couldn't render to mpeg 2 or m2t in Vegas 5d - Well i can render to m2t in Vegas 6- but I can't render to mpeg 2 in Vegas 6. Wondering if this is a bug that has gotten worse for people in V6?

Yep,

Same problem here with a 1mn vegas5 file imported in Vegas6 . Except that Vegas just crashes.
I've tried exporting in Quicktime format and NTSC DV preset. Both crashed...
I dont have any fancy fx, just basic cuts and small track motions here and there.
And of course, everything plays fine until I want to render out a movie...

Any clues?

Beugnet


NEW : I've cut and pasted my whole project from Vegas5 window to Vegas6. Believe it or not, I can now render my scene correctly...

I definitely have a problem with rendering mpeg2 in CBR mode.

[Menu]Options -> Ruler Format -> Time & Frames

Place a generated media (I used SMPTE Bars NTSC) on a track. I then stretched it to the following lengths and rendered to mpeg2 / cbr set to 6MB (used DVD NTSC preset)

4:03 works
4:04 breaks! at 99%

at 4:04 and higher, I get a alert box:

Sony Vegas 6.0 Trial
[EXCLAM ICON]
An error occurred while creating the media file cbr_test.mpg
The reason for the error could not be determined.

Wonder if this can be repro'd on other systems.

Pelladon
I do not know whether this is relevent but I am getting this error on V5.0d. In fact, because this is unresolved, I am hesitating upgrading to V6.
BTW I am using w2k sp4