The issue has been fully resolved and their system is 100% stable. Rendering was much faster and stopped crashing. I turned GPU Acceleration back on in the global settings and in the individual rendering templates.
I downloaded the latest Windows 8.1 video drivers for the Intel integrated GPU and everything was magically fixed. This lead me to try updating the video drivers. After customising the templates to turn this off, the issues were resolved. This setting effectively overrides the GPU Acceleration setting and turns this feature back on. During the analysis, I discovered another setting inside the individual rendering engines within Vegas. Turning off GPU Acceleration did make things slightly better but didn't fully rectify the issue. Rendering crashes were regularly occurring and appeared to be random, intermittent and common across many different rendering engine templates, not purely the DVD and AC3 audio.
After a little bit of investigation, it was revealed that despite saying nothing had changed, they had in fact updated from Windows 8 to 8.1. I had a similar issue recently when I offered remote support for a customer. If you would like more information just ask. Luckily we don't need to be using this setting, at the moment.
When we tried the same process with 1080p 60fps at unrealistic lengths we were unsuccessful - saying the same low memory error, and when continuing to attempt to burn, it said DVD.mpg couldn't be found. This was done on a GoPro 3, recording in 1080p at 30fps. We later tried the same with realistic length clips and this completed in 11 minutes with no errors. We have managed to burn a DVD with ridiculously long clips, unrealistically long, and this has worked.
So yesterday we tried changing the audio format to MP3, as a punt, and it's worked! Only then then the error says DVD.AC3 cannot be found. When TandemVids begins creating the project it tends to crash saying "Low memory.", but if we click Ok it will continue to attempt to burn. However! We seem to have fluked a solution on our systems. We have been trying to resolve this for over year, without much success. I'll keep searching for a real solution but this should help most people out. This should eliminate the render crashes caused by exporting AC3 audio from GoPro footage. Save the template, and write protect it again. Open your DVD Architect template and replace the current DVD.mpg file with the black one we just created.ġ0. Remove the security from your DVD Architect template.ĩ. It's wrong and caused by the lack of an audio file.Ĩ. Generate the black video from the Test tab. Open TandemVids, select your customised template and the option to skip rendering the audio.ħ. Delete DVD.AC3 from D:\Swoopware\TandemVids\Instance 01Ħ. Select the Audio tab, tick the option to include audio, give your template a name and click Save.ĥ. Choose MainConcept MPEG-2 and DVD Architect Widescreen (PAL or NTSC) and click Custom.ģ. Open Vegas, insert a video track and select "render as" from the file menu.Ģ. You need to create a customised rendering template. The crash only occurs when you render the audio to a separate AC3 file.ġ. You need to combine the audio into the video file and then rendering appears to work fine. I'm pretty sure I have a simple effective workaround for this GoPro issue.