Cannot PRINT TO TAPE!!@!! Vegas 6

[Neil Slade]

oh did I mention NOTHING is running in the background.

This sucks. What, am I limited to printing 18 minute portions… jeez.

Neil Slade
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[Neil Slade]

yes all drives defragged blah blah blah I am not an idiot.

Neil Slade
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[George Wing]

Is it crashing after 18 minutes all the time (are your drives NTFS or Fat32)?

What version are you running — 5.x, 6.0c, etc…?

Is it a DV Transfer your are trying to export?

Can you export the entire video into one DV .avi onto a hard drive, then just send that file to tape (instead of from a timeline)?

[Edward Troxel]

Yes, I would try rendering the project to a single DV-AVI file. Does that work? If yes, then put that one file on a new timeline a do a PTT with it. If now, where does it die? The same place? If yes, I would look closely at the footage at that place. Perhaps you have a bad piece of media.

Edward Troxel

[Neil Slade]

Its a single mpg file.

all my drives are NTSC

zHere’s the error message
Sony Vegas 6.0
Version 6.0c (Build 153)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x1 IP:0x1
In Module ‘vegas60.exe’ at Address 0x0 + 0x1
Thread: ProgMan ID=0x918 Stack=0x2EAF000-0x2EB0000
Registers:
EAX=26c275fc CS=001b EIP=00000001 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=2dbaf218 SS=0023 ESP=02eafac4 EBP=7c342151
ECX=2d9cb8a0 DS=0023 ESI=00000000 FS=003b
EDX=00140608 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00000001: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ……..
00000009: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ……..
Stack Dump:
02EAFAC4: 00562691 00400000 + 162691 (vegas60.exe)
02EAFAC8: 26C275FC 26980000 + 2A75FC
02EAFACC: 2DBAF24C 2D990000 + 21F24C
02EAFAD0: 00000000
02EAFAD4: 2C132438 2C0B0000 + 82438
02EAFAD8: 26D831E8 26980000 + 4031E8
02EAFADC: 00000000
02EAFAE0: 0015BAB8 00140000 + 1BAB8
02EAFAE4: 003A0050 003A0000 + 50
02EAFAE8: 0054005C 00400000 + 14005C (vegas60.exe)
02EAFAEC: 006D0065 00400000 + 2D0065 (vegas60.exe)
02EAFAF0: 005C0070 00400000 + 1C0070 (vegas60.exe)
02EAFAF4: 00650056 00400000 + 250056 (vegas60.exe)
02EAFAF8: 00610067 00400000 + 210067 (vegas60.exe)
02EAFAFC: 00200073 00140000 + C0073
02EAFB00: 00720050 00400000 + 320050 (vegas60.exe)
– – –
02EAFFF0: 00000000
02EAFFF4: 00501F10 00400000 + 101F10 (vegas60.exe)
02EAFFF8: 00987688 00400000 + 587688 (vegas60.exe)
02EAFFFC: 00000000

Neil Slade
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The AMAZING Brain Adventure

[Jeremy Rochefort]

Here’s your pointer –
Version 6.0c (Build 153)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x1 IP:0x1

This occurs when there is a read error from the drive – in fact, exactly the same symptoms I had a while back.

The result was an overclock setting in the BIOS which I had used and unbeknown to me at the time, this does affect the read performance, especially from SATA drives.

I would try setting your BIOS settings to default – not the “highest speed” or similar setting.

Cheers

Jeremy

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[Neil Slade]

Well, I should not have to do this- but I DO….

Instead of trying to print the mpg file to tape, I re-rendered back to avi, NTSC DV properties,
and this prints. Note- once I re-render back to avi, I don’t have to wait for a prerender again to print.

I will also try resetting the bios to default (although I don’t even know if its set to high performance) as suggested below and will see if this allows me to read the mpg file.

Neil Slade
http://www.NeilSlade.com
The AMAZING Brain Adventure

[Neil Slade]

The problem was somewhat related to improper bio settings-

one of the responses below suggested that a “high performance” bio setting was causing problems, but I knew in my case this wasn’t it, because I had done all kinds of work and not changed the bios.

Further, it would seem improbable– although possible– that high performance settings wouldn’t slow down things or stop things, but would rather speed things up.

However, the note that the “exceptions” indicated problems reading the drive– EUREKA-
I had installed a generally good working ACOUSTIC MANAGEMENT program that installs from floppy on boot up– Hitatchi Feature Tool, which will slow down drive speeds at variable levels, and allow you to quiet down or completely silence drive seek noises. It works too, on most drives. It had not given me problems previously, but I had not installed since I finished my project months ago.

I removed the acoustic management feature, thus getting the drives back up to full speed.

I can now print this large 55 minute project to tape from mpg direct, without having to re-render.

Too bad Vegas doesn’t give you a solution, or isn’t more specific about error messages.

Neil Slade
http://www.NeilSlade.com
The AMAZING Brain Adventure

[Neil Slade]

The problem was somewhat related to improper bio settings-

one of the responses below suggested that a “high performance” bio setting was causing problems, but I knew in my case this wasn’t it, because I had done all kinds of work and not changed the bios.

Further, it would seem improbable– although possible– that high performance settings wouldn’t slow down things or stop things, but would rather speed things up.

However, the note that the “exceptions” indicated problems reading the drive– EUREKA-
I had installed a generally good working ACOUSTIC MANAGEMENT program that installs from floppy on boot up– Hitatchi Feature Tool, which will slow down drive speeds at variable levels, and allow you to quiet down or completely silence drive seek noises. It works too, on most drives. It had not given me problems previously, but I had installed AFTER I finished my large project months ago.

I removed the acoustic management feature, thus getting the drives back up to full speed.

I can now print this large 55 minute project to tape from mpg direct, without having to re-render.

Too bad Vegas doesn’t give you a solution, or isn’t more specific about error messages. Otherwise, I think the best editor out there of any of the NLEs.

Neil Slade
http://www.NeilSlade.com
The AMAZING Brain Adventure

[Wade Harrington]

Maybe you can get with the code developers at Sony Media and figure out how to tap Vegas 6d into our frontal lobes. Then it can see the history of software we have installed or plan to install. Thus preventing errors from the end user trying to get them to perform better….(Just kidding). I checked out your website and I have enjoying reading it.

most of my computer problems are self induced….. I think there one day be a term called “Computer lock-up rage”

The other day I had the same problem you had. The solution was not to use Zenote letterbox plug-in.