Intermittant problem while rendering PD9

tbrady

Newbie Joined: Feb 01, 2011 13:21 Messages: 7 Offline

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Feb 06, 2011 13:06

After having some success on a Pentium 4 I decided to upgrade to a quad processor 64 bit and PD Ultra 64. That's when my problems started. Intermittent lockups, mostly during rendering sent me to this forum. I think I have read hundreds of posts and searched for hours.

I did find the bug with Smartsound so I replaced it all with mp3's. That solved one problem.

I upgraded the video drivers on my brand new computer as suggested.

I upgraded my brand new PD9 to 2504 as suggested.

I can see that PD is not overloading resources because I have plenty of cpu and ram unused.

If I restart PD, I may get a good render.

If I make only one edit, say the length of a still shot, render fails.

Attached are dxdiag and a few screen shots that should show my simple setup.

I have spent over $800 on a new computer, PD8, and PD9 to make some short underwater home movies.


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tbrady

Newbie Joined: Feb 01, 2011 13:21 Messages: 7 Offline

Feb 06, 2011 13:24

I have tried rendering with hardware acceleration both turned on and off. Still intermittant.

I am doing color correction on most of the underwater clips.

Camera is AIPTEK Action Z5X5P Camcorder shooting in 720x480 resolution

Attached is clip information.


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Senior Contributor Location: Canada Joined: Aug 21, 2009 11:24 Messages: 1431 Offline

Feb 06, 2011 15:25

Tbrady,

Your PC should be able to handle the video at hand. I suggest that in preferences you de-select all hardware acceleration and "shadow" file (on General tab). Note that your ATI card cannot handle acceleration because of design. The CPU can handle that well. Win 10, i7

tbrady

Newbie Joined: Feb 01, 2011 13:21 Messages: 7 Offline

Feb 07, 2011 08:22

All selections are and have been as you suggested HDedit.

My symptoms are so varied and hard to describe but always end up with a lockup where I must kill the process to escape.

Reading other posts on this forum suggests PD9 has some serious flaws and we will just have to wait for a new version. My thread went to the second page in only a few hours.

tbrady

Newbie Joined: Feb 01, 2011 13:21 Messages: 7 Offline

Feb 14, 2011 08:37

anyone know how long until the next patch comes out?