Sony Vegas video rendering help

[Randomrocket]

Okay guys. I have a music video Im working on made with halo cutscenes. The problem is, Im using over 65 HD clips to make the video and now Vegas won't render at all.

 

It freezes and refuses to respond when I run it. Not letting me make more changes to it. And when I try to render (selection or full video) it says "the system is low on memory. Try closing some applications." Im only running Vegas and sometimes Task manager at the time to see what's wrong and it still won't render!

 

I have an AMD quad-core Phenom II 945 with 4MB of DDR3 RAM and a Radeon 9870 video card.

Running windows 7 64bit and Sony Vegas 9 Pro 64-bit.

 

I really dont think its the hardware but Im clueless.

 

I tried "rendering via networked computers" (Im told that that renders the video in segments so it doesnt use as much RAM) but it threw the same error.

 

I'd really like some help on this guys before I go out and buy 2 more GBs of RAM without knowing if that would help or not.

 

Thanks.

 

btw, in the pic of task manager I uploaded. I honestly did not have Internet Explorer or windows explorer running at the time. I tried ending process and it just popped up again. That's kind of weird.

[lostmodz26]

Try using a different format, preferably not QuickTime.

[amcboi95]

What is File I/O surrogate?

It sure is taking up a lot of memory...

[iBotPeaches]

Thats the render process. I've render videos quite large and there is a setting to dump in segments somewhere.

[Quinn]

Could be malware. Or it could be that you have "4mb of RAM". I sure as hope you meant GB.

[Randomrocket]

I was trying wmv format for 1080p quality. Then I tried, like cell phone quality and it still wouldnt work.

 

Yes I did mean 4 GBs of RAM sorry.

 

I/O surrogate loads all of the files in Sony Vegas, the more files you have loaded, the more memory it consumes.

 

But see, now it won't let me render at all. Or even open it to edit it. idk how I made it that big that it won't load it. See in the pic those red files? those files were unable to load and the blank ones too.

Edited May 13, 2010 by Randomrocket

[Quinn]

I was trying wmv format for 1080p quality. Then I tried, like cell phone quality and it still wouldnt work.

 

Yes I did mean 4 GBs of RAM sorry.

 

I/O surrogate loads all of the files in Sony Vegas, the more files you have loaded, the more memory it consumes.

 

But see, now it won't let me render at all. Or even open it to edit it. idk how I made it that big that it won't load it. See in the pic those red files? those files were unable to load and the blank ones too.

 

I need you to answer this with 100% honesty.

Is your Vegas copy pirated?

If so, where did you download it from, and who made the crack/keygen?

[Randomrocket]

I need you to answer this with 100% honesty.

Is your Vegas copy pirated?

If so, where did you download it from, and who made the crack/keygen?

Just wondering but why would that matter? I've had this copy of vegas for almost a year now with no problems. Until now of course

Edited May 14, 2010 by Randomrocket

[Quinn]

Just wondering but why would that matter? I've had this copy of vegas for almost a year now with no problems. Until now of course

 

It just does.... There is a difference.

Can you run Prime95 for a minimum of an hour without your computer crashing?

[matty0]

set the output to a .mov its an uncompressed format and will therefore require less to render out. WMV is a HIGHlY compressed format and will require more power than you need.

 

after the .mov output, try and open the OUTPUTTED file in vegas on its own, and render that as a wmv. i think you'l find that should work

[Randomrocket]

It just does.... There is a difference.

Can you run Prime95 for a minimum of an hour without your computer crashing?

idk. Never heard of it or tried.

 

Let me try matty0's idea.

[Randomrocket]

okay, I tried Matty0s idea and it rendered about halfway then threw the same error. :\ fml.

 

But it did render farther than wmv did

Edited May 14, 2010 by Randomrocket

[Quinn]

okay, I tried Matty0s idea and it rendered about halfway then threw the same error. :\ fml.

 

But it did render farther than wmv did

 

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

 

Download 32 bit or 64 bit, depending on your system. Then run it for at least an hour.

[lostmodz26]

There's a very simple answer, use Premiere.

 

I've used Vegas for 3 years, and it just gives you random error messages with no fix.

[Randomrocket]

There's a very simple answer, use Premiere.

 

I've used Vegas for 3 years, and it just gives you random error messages with no fix.

I tried Premiere CS3 and didn't like it as much as Vegas. Is CS4 or CS5 much better or different?

[Randomrocket]

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

 

Download 32 bit or 64 bit, depending on your system. Then run it for at least an hour.

What does that do? overclock my computer?

[Quinn]

What does that do? overclock my computer?

 

No. It checks to see if your system is stable.

[lostmodz26]

I tried Premiere CS3 and didn't like it as much as Vegas. Is CS4 or CS5 much better or different?

 

Try downloading Premiere CS5. Its 64 bit native, so it should use all of your RAM.

[Randomrocket]

Try downloading Premiere CS5. Its 64 bit native, so it should use all of your RAM.

But see, I've already done all the work in Vegas.