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Carl,
That is what i am currently doing; but i shouldnt have to, at the end of the day this is not a feature of the program and is detrimental to my production of content, not to mention it is a massive inconvienience if for some reason i accidently interact with it in some way then 10-50mins of rendering is lost. So while i understand and concur, you cant seriously be proposing this as a long term solution.
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Hi,
My predicament is thus; i am rendering in AVC format, everything was going fine... but it seems that i have come across a very iritating bug. It seems to be that if i start the rendering process and leave the program to its work, its fine; but if for any reason i click on the program, or interact with it in any way;obviously the program will attempt to update its values, indicating time left time elapsed etc. but along with this, the rendering will glitch, and it appears that for some reason the program will reset its process, and the progress bar will skip forward in %; and all the other values indicate that the program thinks that its restarting the rendering, but from an arbitrary mid point, not the start. The resluting content is that once the process is finished the program reviews its work, realises that it failed, and only saves the placeholder made at the beginning of the process (188 bytes file)
I have explained it as best i can; if anyone is still unsure as to the problem i face let me know and i will provide examples
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Hi,
You dont really give us much information about the problem; have you troubleshooted this problem at all? what do you think is causing the problem?
Firstly, you need to make sure that, provided you computer can handle it, you select a high quality profile type within the format you are wishing to produce.
Secondly, you must also ensure that fast rendering has been disabled, otherwise; even if you have selected the highest guality possible, the final product will be blurry and choppy...
Have a look at this attachment, and see what i mean 
If the program is functioning correctly, then it should produce very high quaity content; beyond that i am afraid i cant help you, as i am extremely new to both the product pd10 and this forum, so if the problem is something more complex, youll have to look to a more senior poster.
Thanks - Stevo.
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Thanks for the hasty responses guys i will answer both of you as best i can.
Bubba, im a little confused by your question: you ask if i have tried rendering the footage in a different format?
May i also note that the program renders full HD video content fine in the AVC HD format, and at considerably faster speed; however the file size is a little on the large side, so id rather have wmv.
that would be a yes
However if you were asking if i had tried a different profile type within the WMV format, thats also a yes xD. I have indeed tried rendering the footage in a less than full HD WMV format, worked fine.
I have also tried rendering a single clip of the footage, about 4GB worth, which is about 2 or so minutes, that worked fine also. But, like many i am a perfectionist, aand as such i want to have the best content i can have, and see no reason to settle for anything less; that means full HD. I Hope that answered your question
Tony, my main reson for wishing to render in the WMV format was that, as far as i can see it is the smallest file size of all the full HD content after rendering; but as such it will obviously take more time to render the footage. Having said this, space saving is not the issue, as you can see from my dxdiag i have a plentiful hard drive.
Its was originally to do with time, smaller files take less time to upload to youtube for obvious reasons. However, as i have had to make do with AVC recently, i have found it to be 6 of one and half a dozen of the other; that is to say that wmv takes far longer to render, but AVC takes far longer to upload. In essense one negates the other
So, this means that the time factor seems to be negated, and as such i am actually favouring the AVC format. I know im preeching to the choir here but, to give context to less experienced members in a similar predicament; rendering is far more intensive on the system than uploading, meaning i cannot record footage smoothly whilst doing it.
However, with AVC i can render the footage in about 30mins, as opposed to the 2 or so hours it would take with the WMV format. Due to this, i am able to spend more time recording gameplays, and i can leave my computer on overnight to upload as much content as i want. so it actually seems that AVC is the far more convenient option for me.
However, i am still eger to get to the bottom of this because i like my options to be open, and to be honest im kind of interested as to what the problem actually is.
To continue answering your questions, the capturing software i use is Fraps, so the raw footage is of the AVI file format.
As for the project causing the problem, that is, as far as i can tell, not the case.
Since reading many of the posts here before making my own i have already looked at what time the rendering failed, incase it was a transition or something that was the cause; but alas, it was simply an arbitrary point in the middle of a clip, to which i had made no modifications.
Finally, since that particular project was not rendering, and while the problem was still in its infancy i tried to render another gameplay video, same raw file format, similar length to the first, similar modifications (3 fade transitions each in the same places). It too failed at the 8-10% mark, where nothing of note was on the timeline.
As for rendering and re-rendering; well that would defeat the purpose really. Then i would have the disadvantages of both formats and the advantages of niether. So as far as im concerned thats not an option
I hope ive answered coherently enough guys; even if it was a little rantish and sprawling at times, i just want to give you as much info as possible so we can skip the basics, and find a solution  if you need any more information ill be happy to supply it.
Thanks - Stevo.
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Hi,
I have recently traded in my sony vegas for PD 10, and i thought that i had finally found a reliable program to render my gameplay videos with; however it seems i spoke too soon.
I make videos ranging from 20 - 60 minutes long, and i am rendering full HD. Trying to render in full HD caused my computer to shut down every time, but having encountered this problem before i knew that my machine was just overheating, and i just needed to clean my fans and the problem would be resolved. I was correct.
The problem i am facing is that i was to produce full HD content (1920 x 1080) in .wmv format; however everytime im approaching the 10% mark whilst rendering, i get the awesomely helpful error message "Error making movie". Now while im not making this post to rag on this program, from a useability stand point that fails as an error message; because it doesnt tell me anything about what went wrong. So i must turn to you the community; having look at other posts of this nature and found no helpful information i made this post. So does anyone have any ideas as to the problem? all responses are appreciated.
May i also note that the program renders full HD video content fine in the AVC HD format, and at considerably faster speed; however the file size is a little on the large side, so id rather have wmv.
Despite my belief that this is not a hardware issue, but rather a simple software problem (since it can render in other formats.) i will attach my dxdiag anyway.
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I realise this post is in the wrong section, no respposes necessary, i have moved it to the correct section
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Hi,
I have recently traded in my sony vegas for PD 10, and i thought that i had finally found a reliable program to render my gameplay videos with; however it seems i spoke too soon.
I make videos ranging from 20 - 60 minutes long, and i am rendering full HD. Trying to render in full HD caused my computer to shut down every time, but having encountered this problem before i knew that my machine was just overheating, and i just needed to clean my fans and the problem would be resolved. I was correct.
The problem i am facing is that i was to produce full HD content (1920 x 1080) in .wmv format; however everytime im approaching the 10% mark whilst rendering, i get the awesomely helpful error message "Error making movie". Now while im not making this post to rag on this program, from a useability stand point that fails as an error message; because it doesnt tell me anything about what went wrong. So i must turn to you the community; having look at other posts of this nature and found no helpful information i made this post. So does anyone have any ideas as to the problem? all responses are appreciated.
May i also note that the program renders full HD video content fine in the AVC HD format, and at considerably faster speed; however the file size is a little on the large side, so id rather have wmv.
Despite my belief that this is not a hardware issue, but rather a simple problem (since it can render in other formats.) i will attach my dxdiag anyway.
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