Vegas 5.0d problems

Being new to this --- I try to render my project which is about 50 minutes long and it hangs up at about 37 minutes and 17 seconds. I have 2 gigs of RAM and a 2.0 Gig processor and a 160 Gig hard drive at 7200 RPM. Any ideas?

Second problem, Neither Vegas 5 nor the Vegas Capture program will recognize my GR-HD1 camera. HD Capture that came with the camera does with no problem. And I thought, well it will be simple, I'll load my Vegas rendered clips into MPEG, redo them into the 50 minute length and then dump them back to my camera with HD Capture. But when I try to load the m2t segments from Vegas into MPEG, they only load in as Audio clips - what happens to the video??

This **** is driving me crazy. Anyone have any ideas or experience along these lines. Help, please.

Jerry

Jerry,

1. Usually when a Vegas project crashes its because there are dropped frames in the captured video stream. Try cutting out that section and re-capturing it. Dropped frames can occur if the the operating system decides to do something else in the background while you are capturing, and takes too much CPU time. There are a list of configuration suggestions at www.videoguys.com to avoid this.

2. Vegas 5d can not capture from the HD1. You need Vegas 6 for that, or purchase ConnectHD for $149.00 on the Vegas site.

3. If you want to write rendered mpeg2-ts back to the HD1 camera, you must be very careful you have rendered with the correct mpeg2-ts parameters that the camera can recognize. Use the same rendering parameters that you will see under "properties" for the captured stream.

I did think I found a bad frame, I cut it out and it stopped at exactly the same time the next render. So I tried an entirely different combination of clips and it also stopped at exactly the same time. Which was what led me to think it might be a memory problem...

I've never had a problem getting ConnectHD to recognize the GR-HD1 (although with my PC, you have to have ConnectHD open, then start the tape rolling in the camera, and then attach it via the firewire --- any other sequence and you get 'No video capture device available').

But I did have one situation where no matter what I did, it wouldn't copy a specific MPEG2 file to the hard drive... after several failed attempts, I switched to using the CFHD format, and it worked fine...

But I'd think twice about getting ConnectHD at this point, if you already have Vegas 5, since the upgrade to Vegas 6 (which can capture and edit HD footage natively) looks like it runs $200-250 -- not much more than ConnectHD costs.