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Sony Vegas PRO 11 – Trimmer Problem
Hi there. I’m new to this forum but have been coming here in the past years for various problems and so i joined to see if someone can help me with the only problem i have not fixed :/
The problem i’m having has only started recently (which i find weird), in both SVPRO11 32 and 54 bit versions. I’ll try to explain clearly what the problem is and what i’ve tried so far to narrow it down.
Basically, i have set in the program options to open the trimmer using double-click. Once i have video files in the media bin, i double-click the file i want to edit to open it in the trimmer and choose the part i want to move to the timeline. NEVER had problems with this until out of nowhere recently, the trimmer doesn’t work! It still opens the file, but either it only shows the first frame frozen with the audio playing fine (happens with .MOV files with h264. codecs), or with other files, it lags terribly and shows a green frame before playing.
It really annoys me the fact that i use this program professionally and have been delaying my work because of this and i cannot find a solution. Here are the things i’ve tried:
– Re-installing GFX drivers.
– Trying other versions of SV.
– Opening the trimmer in other ways.
– Installing various codec packs.
– Removing all plug-ins.
– Installing the program again.
– Trying various movie formats.
– Tweaking some playback options.NOTHING! And i don’t see why i should be tweaking options that have never caused any issues in the past. Please take a minute to read this and i hope someone will manage to find a solution for me. Finally, here are my system specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
8GB DDR2 RAM
2TB HDD
AMD RadeonHD 6850 1GB GDDR5 MemoryThanks for your time.
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6 Replies
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My experience is that when I get a creeping-up of an issue it may NOT be to do with anything you’ve done to change Vegas.
We need to look further first and then come back to Vegas.
But first things first – yeah?
What Build of VP11 32 or 64 you’re seeing this in?
What happens if you play “other” Media? You said, but what were they? Getting the issue may just confirm this “creeping-up” issue.
Does your Project Settings Match your Media?
How much space have got on your System drive or Media drive/s?
Grazie
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Hi thanks for the fast response!
The build i’m using for the 64bit version (i’ve removed the 32bit as it was only to test this issue) is: 701, which i think should be the latest (i’ve tried updating to solve the problem so i think it’s recent).
I’m not sure what you mean by your second question. By other media i meant other file formats, i usually work in .MOV because my camera records in that format, but i’ve tried .WMV, .MP4, .AVI but still problems. ALTHOUGH, everything works fine in the timeline, i mean i could just trim the files in the timeline but that’s not how i’m used to work and would be quite annoying. Also, if it helps, i always seem to see a green solid frame at the beginning of the videos, but goes away when i play them.
As for project settings, when i start a new project i always use the icon that fetches the settings from a source file so that they are exactly the same.
And for space, i have plenty, on my C: drive i have 499GB free space and 310GB free space on my D:.
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You have plenty of space. You have used the same Media in previous builds of VP11 – yes?
So, you’ve recently installed VP11 Build701. What was the previous build? Or is this your first VP11?
Did you uninstall the previous build or do an install-over?
G
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I used to have build 307 if i’m not mistaken. But that had the problem too. Keep in mind that all of this has started out of nowhere, the build updates were done after the problem started to see if i could solve it.
When i uninstalled Vegas to trouble-shoot the problem, i also tried several builds. As i remember, i used to also have SVPro10 32 bit and 64 bit installed at the same time as my SVPro11, after this problem started, those old versions wouldn’t even open anymore so i removed them. Quite a lot of weird stuff happening recently.
Just 10 minutes ago i tried another user account to see if the problem persisted on another profile but nothing, still the same thing.
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I also just noticed that the timeline doesn’t run that well either, gets a bit distorted a “laggish” :/ Could it be something has gone wrong Hard-Ware wise?
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THE PROBLEM IS NOW SOLVED!!!
After a S**T load of troubleshooting, i have solved this problem.
As a first step i figured i needed to test Sony Vegas on a clean system, i had a feeling some registry file for SV was causing this, so i installed Win7 on a new harddisk, installed the GFX drivers and then SV and the problem still persisted! So i gathered it must be a hardware problem.The last test i decided to do is uninstall the GFX drivers and BAM! The problem was gone! Bloody AMD has released the latest drivers not long ago making my SV unstable. So then i decided to install the GFX driver components one by one and found that the component causing the problem was an SDK runtime thing, which i have left out and all is good now!
Just wanted to let you all know just incase one day someone has this problem.
Bye bye.
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