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Old March 26th, 2008, 04:29 AM   #1
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No WMV rendering...

HI I am fairly new to Vegas but it seems pretty straightforward in the main. I am workign on an Dell XPS 720 H2C - quite a beefy machine and everything has been fine up to now.

Today I went to render a project as a WMV and I keep getting an error message saying that there are no templates for the selected projectthe he media may not support it.

I am sure this is about codec but I have everythign I can find installed and can't seem to find a similar issue on your forums.

Can anyone help?

When I go into the custom template window and select video and then format the drop down list is completely empty!

Please help!

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Old March 26th, 2008, 04:39 AM   #2
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Hi Paul.
You've got footage on the timeline yes ?
Ok. So you doing, File>Render as>Save as type>Windows Media Video V9(WMV)

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Old March 26th, 2008, 06:35 AM   #3
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Hi Paul,

Yes there is a project all set out in the timeline. On one of them I used AVCHD (.m2ts files I believe) from my Sony SR1 and on another it was simply a string of jpegs.

Yes as you described I am going to save as wmv but thats when the error message comes back.

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Old March 26th, 2008, 07:23 AM   #4
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If the presets are not there, there is something wrong with your system. They are there in a standard Vegas installation. I would try installing Vegas again.
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Old March 28th, 2008, 06:59 AM   #5
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OK did a complete reinstall and still not presets. Anything else you would suggest? I had version 8d installed previous but just install 8 this time to see if that made a difference...it didn't.
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Old March 28th, 2008, 10:10 AM   #6
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You had version 8d installed???? You mean 7d?

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Old March 28th, 2008, 01:13 PM   #7
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hmmm... I seem to recall installing an update labelled d. Is the latest version 8.0c? If so would 7.0d installed over the top and screwed my build? I will install the latest update and see if I can get any joy.
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Old March 28th, 2008, 01:16 PM   #8
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No just checked at the website it is definately version 8.0d.
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Old March 28th, 2008, 01:23 PM   #9
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If it makes a difference, Paul is running Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, not Vegas Pro 8. The version number twigged me to it.
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Old March 28th, 2008, 01:25 PM   #10
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Ah, sorry - perhaps I should of mentioned that. Also I am in Vista if thats makes any difference. :-)
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Old March 28th, 2008, 02:49 PM   #11
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Ah - apologies for being presumptious.

But just think how good Vegas Pro will be by the time it gets to 8d......

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Old March 29th, 2008, 12:54 PM   #12
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Another error message coming back says that I do not have the neccesary window media video codecs? Where can I obtain these?
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Old March 30th, 2008, 03:40 AM   #13
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That's pretty strange that you don't have windows media codecs. They come with Windows, even Vista.

You can search for the K-Lite codec pack and install that. It has a pretty good pile of codecs.

Also, maybe you don't have windows media player installed? Under add/remove go to windows components if it's not there.

It's a real head-scratcher that WMV support isn't built-in. (unless it's a quirk with the UK version of Vista?)
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Old March 30th, 2008, 06:21 AM   #14
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Then this will do your noodle. Everythign seemed to work fine for a while. I have Window Media Player installed and thats still works fine. I have installed the codecs you suggested and that makes no difference. Vegas still tells me that the templates are missing or not compatible and thats after a complete reinstall!

Its beginning to do my fruit because I like to render videos for streaming to my xbox and wmv works best for that.

Any other ideas anyone? I am getting desperate and considering an OS reinstall...
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Old March 30th, 2008, 01:29 PM   #15
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...Any other ideas anyone? I am getting desperate and considering an OS reinstall...
I really have no idea what's happening here.

One possible workaround - install the freeware Windows Media Encoder 9 from Microsoft. If you can't encode from this, then yes, an OS reinstall may be needed (ouch!).

OTOH, if encodes from WME are working, you might then try vegas again.
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