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!

Paul

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)

Paul.

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.

Regards

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.

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.

Paul

You had version 8d installed???? You mean 7d?

Ian

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.

No just checked at the website it is definately version 8.0d.

If it makes a difference, Paul is running Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, not Vegas Pro 8. The version number twigged me to it.

Ah, sorry - perhaps I should of mentioned that. Also I am in Vista if thats makes any difference. :-)

Ah - apologies for being presumptious.

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

Ian

Another error message coming back says that I do not have the neccesary window media video codecs? Where can I obtain these?

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?)

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...

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.