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Sony Vegas Pro 12 is not stable, can’t do basic edits
I’m running Sony Vegas Pro 12 on a Windows 7 64-bit system, has been working fine for many months BUT now all of a sudden Vegas is not stable; that is, it freezes when: 1) deleting a timeline event, 2) track, 3) can’t change property settings, 4) preview monitor freezes while the cursor is still moving across timeline, 5) can’t add chapter markers, etc. This are just what I have written as part of my notes so far. I’ve been forced to shutdown Vegas and reopen the project. I’m able to work for about 5 minutes at a time before it starts acting up again and freezing. I’m at the end of my rope with this. Have searched the forum and can’t zero in on my problem. Any counsel is more than appreciated.
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[Andre Anthonio] “Any counsel is more than appreciated.”
Well something has changed then?
Can you think of any recent MS Updates you’ve applied?
Next thing would be to look at your memory and system drive space.
To start with, and if everything has been working uptil now, keep the possible candidates as being culprits on a short list of 2:
1] Updates
2] Physical space of System drive, and more to the point the drive that has the Veg files on it.
There will be a simple solution.
Cheers
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
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Have you tried multiple / new projects and it’s consistently the same? Is it possible your project file has gone bad?
I’ve read here on the board of certain projects getting glitchy, and people having luck with copying all timeline data and pasting into a new fresh project.
Sorry if that doesn’t help..
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Plain and simple Andre, a recent software installation is causing
you that issue, and if to the best of your knowledge nothing was recently installed, something was automatically installed or
updated while online…..You can maybe even try a system restore.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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Super thanks, Steve. Unfortunately restoring to an early point does not seem to be an option because my system’s restore was/is turned off. Will a reinstall of Vegas help? I’m really stuck in the mud on this one. Making matters worse I have two PCs and they both now are behaving in the exact same manner. I thought I was out of the woods when I opened the same project on the next computer. It seemed to behave normal and sent the project to render, but when I came back 3 hours later, the remaining time to finish the render was zero but yet only 86 percent of my project had actually been rendered. I got a partial render. Keep in mind that I process sports games video on a weekly basis, several games, and have been following these same steps for years. Never have I been confronted with such a dilemma. Comes at a very bad time too, the Championship youth football games where just Saturday night in my area and I have a lot of good folks waiting on these DVDs!
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Weird. Weird. Wierd. Another 3 hour render, and at 86% the preview video stops moving (it freezes) yet the remaining render time showing still continues to count down. When the remaining time reaches zero, the progress indicator still shows 86%. At At that point I have to force quit. I’m left in the end with a partial render but it doesn’t contain my important chapter markers. BTW, I reinstalled Vegas and I get into the same trouble. The video on the timeline is MOV from a Canon Mark II and the other is MT2 from a Canon XHA1. I’ve mixed this media before a million times and am doing nothing different. So now I’m going to try and render the last 16% or the project file to see what happens, then I can try to put the two partial renders together in another project file and redo my chapter markers there? I have no other option. Haven’t slept in 24 hours. Excuse me if I’m not so clear.
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sorry to hear that. all i can advise is… with god’s help finish this project somehow and install SV10. it is the most stable version i know. i had nothing but crashes with 11, i don’t care about 12 and i am not even thinking about 13.
just now i am working on a huge project on SV 10, i have some rare crashes but i am pretty sure they come from memory as i am having 1300 medias in my bins. in small projects it is rock steady. occasionally, really rare i have crashes coming from plugins. someone said here to all complaining on sv11, and 12 about crashes “cut that crap and get your system in order”. I disagree. I understand a faulty system when it fails completely, gives me bluescreeens or doesn’t open. if all my other applications even equally complicated work perfectly well on my system, i expect SV to work more or less that way. If I got constant crashes from SV on a system which works perfect with other complex apps I will address my beefs to sony, not to microsoft, i don’t see any reason why wouldn’t i expect to be SV crash-proof. I expect I pay for a program which is not hyper sensitive to any misalignments with the system. Others can produce those and I want sony to work the same way. -
Go to Programs & Features >> View installed updates
Sort by Install On date, remove anything that updated just before you started having problems. Turn off Windows Auto Update for the moment.
Get a free copy of CCleaner.com, run the normal Cleaner and then the Registry cleaner.
Check to see if any drivers (ie. video) have been updated or changed.
Good Luck,
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Mystery solved, folks! After more than 24 hours of no sleep at all, seriously stuck being in the mud, I finally figured out (with God first) what was causing causing my Sony Vegas 12 to behave in the inconsistent, unstable manner that I previously described: corrupted imported media that made it’s way to the timeline and once there couldn’t be deleted. In my case, I was recording a sports event with an FS Pro hard drive and the battery of the device was going out. The camera operator could actually see the batter about to die. Finally, it went out and from that point forward we knew that we would have to capture the tape from that point since we record on both cassette and hard drive. BUT what I didn’t know, is that the files that the hard drive produced prior to complete hard drive failure were corrupted. In other words, there were a total of three video clips recorded prior to when the battery completely died, that were corrupted. What made things so bad is that I couldn’t tell based on sight. I mean, they looked like a duck, quacked like a duck and walked like a duck, but they were none of such. Specifically, the corrupted files would play on the timeline, show audio levels, and you could move them. BUT I wasn’t able to delete them OR change the property settings and in some cases Sony Vegas would just stall and/or eventually crash. Is was mind boggling!!! This is why when I rendered the project, the render would get stuck at 86% (about 2 hours into the render). It took me a while to figure out that that was the point about where the hard drive went out and my brain just finally figured it out. In the end, I had to remove the three corrupted files from the source disc so that SV wouldn’t have them to bring them into the project. From there, I replaced the corrupted files with the same video that was recorded and captured from tape. It was like a medical surgery for me having not experienced this before. After all that, Vegas was immediately behaving as usual. So my advice is that to also include the quality of your imported media data before considering hard drive, memory, updates, etc. as your culprit. In my case, it was just bad media. Thanks for all the good responses folks.
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lol…Glad you figured that out. Corrupted media can be a nightmare,
and hard to pinpoint.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956 -
The issue was resolved Mike Thomas….
Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
https://www.facebook.com/FilmexCreativeMedia
1-876-832-4956
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