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Bug in Vegas?
I’ve a PAL DV lots of graphics. i’m compositing three layers of bitmap sequence (D1 size and par)and Vegas is very unstable rendering – even displaying it.
After a reboot it may render a 20 sec sequence but more often than not it’ll freeze. Even taking the cursor to that area of the timeline may cause it to crash. It’s as if it can’t access the disks fast enough.
All my media and renders go to a second disk and I’ve reduced the maximim number of render threads in preferences to 1.
Running Vegas on a Dual core 2.33 laptop, 2GB ram and two fast internal disks. XP sp2, Vegas7d
anyone get any ideas? I’ve a project due.
With thanks Alan
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9 Replies
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Don’t know if this would help but all my sequence stuff is done in png or jpg. It is what Vegas likes.
JerryW
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Thanks Jerry,
Yes this is all jpg sequences, as soon as I stack more that three Vegas crashes when I go to scrub the tl.
I don’t think it’s the machine as AE, Combustion or Commotion don’t have any problems.
How many layers do you stack when compositing in Vegas?
Regards Alan
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10? 20?
someone I know uses about 150 – LONG renders 😉
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150 layers??? there’s something wrong with machine then.
Alan
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How are you bringing the sequences in? “File-import-media” then click the first one and click the box for “sequence.” The sequence should then appear in media as a clip. You are doing this but can’t put 3 clips together? Is that what you are saying?
Did you try to render any before combining them?
JerryW
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Hi Jerry,
I have three jpg sequences each about 150fms (imported the way you stated) aligned vertically on three tracks (I was planning to mask them individually) but as soon as I try to scrub the timeline, or do anything else in that region, Vegas crashes.
It wont render that region, either to the render sequence command or output a test m2v. If I set it render a longer m2v, it’ll freeze when it gets to that section. It seems to me like it’s trying to access the multiple files on the same disk simultaneously and panics.
I thought it may be some corruption of the jpgs but they seem perfect in every other application.
I’ve resorted to compositing this in AE but I should have thought Vegas would have done this easily. On second thoughts I wonder whether it would be worth trying a different bitmap format (eg tga or png)
Thanks for you interest and help
Alan
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but that sounds like either a codec or an IRQ conflict problem- especially since Vegas easily does this on my laptop (and more). The last time I ever encountered a problem with Vegas was when I had a sound card that was running at 48kHz and my project was set to 44kHz- couldn’t figure the crashes and lockups until I reset the sound card settings. Also, its possible if you have other video footage in the project that it may be a codec issue. I had another scrubbing problem when I had too many codecs and I had to remove some conflicting ones…
ALANIER_01.AVI
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Thanks Alanier,
I tried a new project, no audio, only three stacked jpg sequence layers and still the lockup and crash.
It’s a Rock laptop
Alan
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No problem,
I’m sorry I can’t be of more assistance. However, for the record, this definitely sounds like a codec issue. By the way, Does Vegas work fine when you import regular video? What about regular audio? Can it run fine just scrubbing the timeline with a generic Texture/transitions from within Vegas? If it doesn’t run in these situations, then its likely a codec problem (unless of course I’m wrong- just said that as a fail safe:) ).
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