Re: Pro 9: Rendering failures using MainConcept AVC/mp4?

Hi Brett.

>>If I were going to reinstall the OS I'd probably go for Windows 7 in any case, and frankly, I don't like wasting my time living on the bleeding edge any more. ;)

I hear that. I think I am just arriving at that conclusion myself. like right now.

>>Also, please confirm to me that you have rendered with the Main Concept AVC presets (at least the built-in preset templates?)

Yes, I can render in Main Concept AVC; but not in Sony AVC. It seems I have the opposite problem that you have. I can get mine to work with Main Concept AVC/AAC with the iPod 640x480 preset, but not with anything else. I am dissatisfied with that, because it gives me letterboxing.

What I really want to use is the Sony AVC, Internet HD 1920 x 1080 30p preset, but every time I try to run that, it gets to about 4-5% progress on the render, and then tells me I am out of memory. That is interesting, because I've got 8GB of RAM, 4GB of ReadyBoost RAM and a 12 GB swap file. On top of that, Windows Task Manager tells me that physical RAM usage averages about 3.3GB, and I never saw it exceed 3.5GB, on Vista 64 Ultimate (so I know it can use all of that RAM). The problem persists on rebooting. I did have AVG Internet Security running in the background (and maybe I should shut that down), but that was about all.

>>Also, I wouldn't even try to run Vegas Pro 8.0 or 9.0 on a laptop myself. Their video drivers are never that stable and they run way too hot for my taste usually with very inadequate ventilation and cooling though I suppose you might put one on one of those cooling devices and see if you could keep it stable, for me, the adventure would be too much... I don't like losing any more work than I have to, given other options.

I hear that also. I use my laptop mostly for correspondence and 'test bed' stuff. I tried using the video card hard a couple of weeks back, and the machine got so hot it started failing to respond to the keypad properly. It lives on a cooling pad, and never comes off of it.

I think part of the problem is that the machine housing seems to be part plastic (Dell Inspiron E1720). I might try to use it if I had a metal bodied laptop housing (like MacBook Pro's have), and an external G-RAID device with Cineform codec running...but I am starting to think that all of my serious machines will forever be desktop models.

I have a Dell T3400 Workstation. I bought a spare side-panel on EBay for ten bucks, cut the meat out of it, and glued bug mesh in its place. Then I also added a superquiet fan to the back of the case, and the thing really, really vents. No more problems with heat! If only I could figure out something for the laptop.....

I have considered cutting into the case bigtime, and installing similar kinds of mesh, but then with a mobile device that might get exposed to outdoor environments, it really just is not worth it.

I will be very interested to see if we can solve the MainConcept issue for you, because I might learn something about using the Sony AVC codec myself (which is what I really want to use).

John, are you saying I should report this to Sony?



Norman Willis
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