Crashing when rendering or rendering slow? Try this!

[Mutley Eugenius]

I have discovered a few things about rendering in SE2 which should be known by all users. I imagine that most people probably render their projects with the project open. You select the stuff you want to render, and right click to the ‘render selected’ option and set the render panel & away it goes, and that’s totally fine. But here are some details about that… If your project is in any way heavy on processor & memory demands, close the project as soon as you start rendering it (by opening up a new empty project), You will right away notice that your rendering speed will suddenly speed up tremendously.

Also, if you are experiencing partial rendering & then crashing, try rendering with the project closed. I rendered a file unsuccessfully 6 times, because it crashed part way in each time. Then I rendered with the project closed. No problem, and faster too.

This is also useful if you are trying to render to a file format that crashes as soon as you select it. Try closing the project as soon as you open the render panel, then selecting the file format, and it probably won’t crash anymore.

At least those are tips that I have learned in the last 24 hours.

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The time to stop trying is when you've achieved what you wanted.
- Mutley Eugenius.

[Scott Bates]

Thanks Mutley. Why I love these forums!

Just for clarification, when you say, "Then I rendered with the project closed.", do you mean close the project, go to the project file in the File Bin, right-click and there's a "Render" option available? (don't have SE or VT running at the moment to check for myself...)

[Mutley Eugenius]

That would probably work too, but what I meant was that I open the render window from the timeline, then while it's open, I close the project behind it by starting a new project (saving first of course). Then go back to the render window, set the formats and run it.

[Scott Bates]

OK, never would have occurred to me that one could open the render window, close the project and still have it render what's not there anymore - Alien's at work, got to love them! Thanks for the tip, it's been saved to my VT/SE archives.

[Mutley Eugenius]

I'm sure hardly anyone would ever think of it, because it's impossible in almost 100% of other Windows programs.

Matter of fact, I use it as standard op basis now, and I enjoy much faster renderings and much fewer crashes.

I put a couple of other posts in the same forum a few days ago about other things that crash SE, which you can also put in your archives. Things all users should know.