• VEGAS Pro

  Problem with 3D Alpha layers

  Posted by Omer Aydin on August 7, 2008 at 10:17 am

  Does your Vegas 8 crash when you add 10 video tracks compositing mode set to 3D Alpha or it’s just me?

  Omer Aydin replied 17 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 8 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  August 7, 2008 at 1:51 pm

  No. I can composite 10 tracks with 3D Source Alpha without any problems. Maybe it has to do with what is on those tracks and how much resources they take up? 10 tracks of 8 megapixel still images might be a problem.

  ~jr

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  Douglas Spotted eagle

  August 7, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  Ditto. Just quickly tossed 30 tracks of DV up, all in 3D mode and various mask modes to see if this caused a crash. No problem here.
  As John mentioned, what’s the source content? how fast is your disk throughput?
  RAM? Other apps running? Antivirus?

  Douglas Spotted Eagle
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  Charles Avanti

  August 7, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  i found that if i use very high resolution stills, Vegas 8 will crash every time. and i’m using a quad core q9300 with 4 gigs of ram. try lowering the pix resolution on the stills, then test render a section.

  Charlie

  
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  Ralph Hajik

  August 7, 2008 at 6:05 pm

  Hi Charles,

  What’s your pixal size?
  No larger than 1440 X 960 (for NTSC standard def).

  Ralph Hajik
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  Charles Avanti

  August 7, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  1440 X 960 (for NTSC standard def). doesn’t sound too large. That’s about what I lowered mine down to in a hi-def production. What format stills are you using?

  Try changing (lowering the res. and change the file type) for one five second section and see if it renders. Also, I found that having unused video tracks in my project also crashed V8.

  Charlie

  
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  Omer Aydin

  August 8, 2008 at 6:16 am

  Have you tried rendering it?

  When I preview the timeline in Good or Best mode, Vegas goes ‘Not Responding’

  It works OK in Preview mode.
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  Omer Aydin

  August 8, 2008 at 6:24 am

  Source content is just simple clip events from Media Generator.
  I insert a solid color video event into a new project(PAL DV), set mode to 3D Alpha and duplicate it 9-10 times and my Vegas goes “Not Responding”.

  When previewing, this happens only when my preview monitor mode is in “Good” or “Best” mode.

  When rendering to disk, it never renders.

  My system is P4 3.2 Ghz, 1GB ram, WinXP sp3, WD 7200 rpm HD.
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  Omer Aydin

  August 8, 2008 at 6:29 am

  I think it’s not related to video resolution.
  I can lock up my Vegas with a PAL DV(720*586) project with 9 tracks of Media Generator’s solid colors.

  Try previewing or rendering to disk using Good or Best quality.

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