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Sony Vegas 12: Render As -> “An error occurred while creating the media file . Exception thrown by method called”
Today something weird started happening with Vegas 12. I was mucking about in my recent project and when I finished I pressed “Render As” and then this error came up:
An error occurred while creating the media file . Exception thrown by method called
It’s been around 2 months since I installed Windows 8. Vegas has been working flawlessly until now.
I tried rendering different projects (both empty and with media files), restarting and reinstalling Vegas but the error still came up. Then I tried Ctrl + M (which means Render To New Track) and then this error came up:An error occurred during the current operation. An exception was thrown by a type’s initializer (.cctor).
I also Googled on the first error (the second one didn’t give any good results) and came to the conclusion that it might be the K-Lite Codec pack I had installed MONTHS ago. I tried uninstalling the pack and removing it from the registry as well but no dice.
Some users had said that only reinstalling Windows helped. So I tried Windows 8’s Refresh; and it worked!
I carefully selected programs I wanted to install using ninite.com – and I accidentally selected MPC with decoders (included were MPC). After installing everything Vegas no longer worked, same error.So I did a second reformat, went to MPC’s website and installed it without K-Lite (I presume the installer doesn’t install codecs, since it didn’t give any information on it or anything). Vegas 12 still worked. I preceded to install various Adobe software (Photoshop, Audition, Premiere, After Effects, Media Encoder, Illustrator, Lightroom), DayZ Commander, Mumble (1.2.4 beta), Fraps and other software I’m not completely sure of.
I rendered my project again. I opened the file and then I noticed there were some black frames in the clip. I re-rendered everything but it got worse. Blacks frames to and fro, glitching and other shit.
Then I tried a third time. The error came back.Now, to recap, I have not installed any codecs; only drivers and various software (there’s a full list below). What the HELL is going on? I’m beginning to speculate it’s Windows Update doing some hidden updates, but I doubt that’s even possible.
List of installed programs as of 2013-01-11 (in the time span of 6 hours or so)
Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Master Collection CS6 Public:Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Master Collection CS6 Public
Start Menu\Programs\ASUS Xonar D1 Audio Public:Start Menu\Programs\ASUS Xonar D1 Audio Public
Start Menu\Programs\Dropbox David\David:Start Menu\Programs\Dropbox David\David
Start Menu\Programs\Foxit Reader Public:Start Menu\Programs\Foxit Reader Public
Start Menu\Programs\Fraps Public:Start Menu\Programs\Fraps Public
Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance Default:Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance Default
Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance Public:Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance Public
Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance David\David:Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance David\David
Start Menu\Programs\MPC-HC x64 Public:Start Menu\Programs\MPC-HC x64 Public
Start Menu\Programs\Mumble Public:Start Menu\Programs\Mumble Public
Start Menu\Programs\Notepad++ Public:Start Menu\Programs\Notepad++ Public
Start Menu\Programs\Notepad++ David\David:Start Menu\Programs\Notepad++ David\David
Start Menu\Programs\NVIDIA Corporation Public:Start Menu\Programs\NVIDIA Corporation Public
Start Menu\Programs\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision Public:Start Menu\Programs\NVIDIA Corporation\3D Vision Public
Start Menu\Programs\Sony Public:Start Menu\Programs\Sony Public
Start Menu\Programs\Sony\Vegas Pro 12.0 Public:Start Menu\Programs\Sony\Vegas Pro 12.0 Public
Start Menu\Programs\Stardock Public:Start Menu\Programs\Stardock Public
Start Menu\Programs\Stardock\Fences Public:Start Menu\Programs\Stardock\Fences Public
Start Menu\Programs\StartUp Public:Start Menu\Programs\StartUp Public
Start Menu\Programs\Startup David\David:Start Menu\Programs\Startup David\David
Start Menu\Programs\Steam Public:Start Menu\Programs\Steam Public
Start Menu\Programs\System Tools Default:Start Menu\Programs\System Tools Default
Start Menu\Programs\System Tools Public:Start Menu\Programs\System Tools Public
Start Menu\Programs\System Tools David\David:Start Menu\Programs\System Tools David\David
Start Menu\Programs\Tablet PC Public:Start Menu\Programs\Tablet PC Public
Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR Public:Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR Public
Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR David\David:Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR David\David(List is in no particular order I presume since Windows only dates programs by Year/Month/Day and not hours/minutes)
And inside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32
I presume this is were codecs which are installed are located.Addiotional information:
##### System Information #####OS: Windows 8 Pro (6.02.9200)
DirectX: 9.0c + 10 + 10.1 + 11
CPU name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU speed: 3293MHz
Memory: 4096MB
Screen size: 1920×1200 (32bits)
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
VendorID: 10de, DeviceID: 0e22
Video mem: 768MB
Video driver: nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx (Version 9.18.13.697) (10-2-2012)
Audio device: High Definition Audio Device
Audio driver: HdAudio.sys (Version 6.2.9200.16384) (7-25-2012)https://pastebin.com/6NF46VBp (Codec tweak tool)
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Why do you have so much software and stuff installed on your
system David?, you bound to have conflicts.
And lastly Windows 8 is a new OS, and is something i dont recommend
in upgrading to just yet, for Professional Editors.
Sorry, dont know where to help you in that maze.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
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What? 19 programs isn’t a lot, at all.
My home desktop is my editing machine as well; I don’t have a dedicated one. That should be the answer to your question.
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[David Falck] “Fraps and other software I’m not completely sure of.”
I ansered your other duplicate post as well. If you are installing things that you’re “not completely sure of”… stop doing that. It looks like it all worked until this step. Just install the programs that you NEED and stop installing things that you are not sure about. No one can tell you what’s causing it but your tests seem to indicate that something you installed after the last time you checked Vegas is the cause.
~jr
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Thing is; it’s stuff that I’ve always had. Why should Vegas stop working now and not two months ago when I had the same software installed?
And “other stuff i’m not sure of” was worded wrongly. I know very well what I’ve been installing but I don’t see how it would be relevant to my problem, as it’s programs I’ve ALWAYS had before and Vegas worked correctly.Yesterday I did a system restore back to before I installed MPC. Vegas worked fine, but to be sure I reinstalled Vegas without trial, reinstalled MPC and Foobar2000. Still worked.
Then, after I’ve been using Foobar2000 for around 10 minutes, Vegas started freaking out. That black-frame, spazzing/glitching out thingy came back whenever I rendered a movie. And for the third time I did it; the error came back. -
I’m going to do another reformat and then keep a complete log on what I install on what date/time. Hopefully I’ll find what’s causing it that way.
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The important thing is to test after every piece of software that you install. Once it breaks, the last thing you installed was most likely the cause. Good luck.
~jr
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I’m not sure why you feel the need for MPC and Foobar2000 but the media players are definitely suspect. If you want one media player that plays everything just use VLC.
~jr
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I’m sorry but VLC is not feasible when it comes to both things. Foobar2000 is a lot better for music and MPC is a lot better for movies, simple as that. Both programs are more customizable and stable than VLC.
But I’m keeping log and so far Vegas works with foobar2000 installed. Right now I am also installing Photoshop and Illustrator CS6, will see if they are causing anything. -
Hmmm, I tried opening my old project from before the reformat. It says “An error occurred while loading file test.veg. An error occurred while opening a codec.”
I can however open other old projects. This “test.veg” project is the one that I first experienced the error with. -
[David Falck] “Right now I am also installing Photoshop and Illustrator CS6, will see if they are causing anything.”
I have Adobe Creative Suite 6 on my workstation and it doesn’t interfere with Vegas Pro at all.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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