Render Crashes - Vegas Pro 9.0d - Any hints/fixes?

[Mr Film Maker]

Hello everyone,

Recently I have tried to render a 10 minutes HD and ended up with crashes one after another (computer shuts down in split second).

Quality Settings: Good, 1280x720 MPEG4

Problem is everytime I try to render the computer crashes. The crashes seem random. Sometimes at the 20% and sometimes 60%.

The only I can get my project to render is cutting it down to 2 minutes clip each or lower the quality to draft.

My system:
- Q6600 with 4 Gigs RAM
- Video Card 4870 ATI card (1gig RAM)
- 3 TB HD space.

This has become a very frustrating experience and not sure how to reslove. Any tip on how to fix are highly appreciated.

[Mr Film Maker]

The one thing to note is it will render to Avi which is not much help since a 10minutes clip is 26 Gigs!

The crash happens when rendering to MainConcept mp4. I am not sure why render to Avi but not another format like mp4?

I have tried different solutions on google:
- 0 RAM
- 1 core
- Save to an external drive.

No luck.

Any help is highly appreciated.

[racer-x]

When all else fails, Frameserve out to an external encoder. This is usually bullet-prof. I do his about 60% of my exports...........

You can use Debugmode Frameserver, it works great:
http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/

[Mr Film Maker]

Thanks racer, this is the first time I see this solution. I will download as my Vegas renders are crashing more than a blind F1 forumla driver!

Thanks again for the info.

[blondandfun]

I'm trying to get a 2 hour corporate speech out the door, and I was using the B-roll HV20's on-board stereo as a 3rd track. After several crashes, and several up-all-nights with beer to relieve the stress, I finally figured out it was the audio that was crashing it. You need to uncheck HV's audio, and test the render to see if it's a bad audio track.

[Mr Film Maker]

I am using an external mic. It will render fine if under 5 minutes. Anything over crashes. This happens mostly in MPEG4 renders. But seems ok with .avi and .mov.

So not sure why MPEG4 is crashing but it does require most pc resources, more than Avi even.

I will try Frameserve this weekend as MPEG4 is my fav format.

[movielighter]

This happened to me a while back, I changed my temp file settings to a drive other then the one that had my OS on it.
Under options, by default everything goes into a temp folder in the Vegas directory.

[liverpool 1]

also try putting your computor power settings to never!! and also let the computor run at power 100% and not default around 5%. happening to me on vegas pro 9 until i changed my computor settings. steve