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Computer freezes when rendering a 60 minute video in Sony Vegas

I'm trying to produce a simple one hour video of my sons basketball game and the computer keeps freezing between 29% and 60% complete. I have plenty of hard disk space and 2 gigs of ram. i've rebooted twice to be sure the memory was clear. The project has 15 clips recorded in MPEG-2 totally 3 Gigs.

I am able to render it in MPEG-1 but not in MPEG-2.

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The video has a very simple structure, there are around 15 clips of varying lengths each of which has a simple 2 second fade (overlapping clips) and three 10 second overlays. I have a two gig processor with 2 gigs of ram, and had nothing else running. I will view the clips you suggested.

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David

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Just saw this>>I have a two gig processor << not very fast if you mean 2GHz
which windows are you running?
I'm on Windows 7,
4 gig of ram and dual core processor >2x 2.250 processor 3 GHz
which video card you have can also effect video renderring, newer cards have 1 to 2 gig onboard ram taking the load off the procesor.

dm-creative

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Your answers were helpful and resourceful. I did find in doing a second project, that it processed as the last one should have.