Crashes are becoming painful

[Steve Rhoden]

Had similar issues at times with my Vegas 10 Christopher.
I just simply continued using my rock solid version 9.0e
I hope the upcoming 10.0d update will bring you some relief.
But it could possibly be you have a clip on the timeline
that is corrupted or something, that is causing vegas to
crash.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Maker
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Christopher Key]

Actually the last edit I was working on did have a corrupted clip but not this one. I’ll stick with Vegas 9 until the next release. Thanks for the reply.

Christopher Key

[Frank Stevn]

It maybe a hard drive performance issue.

I am using Vegas 10 + Windows 7 64. I had those problems when I was emitting clips saved on external WD hard drives. I changed the work flow to new and faster internal hard drives and all problems are gone.

You could try copy all the clips you are using and the Vegas project to an internal hard drive (7.200RPM minimum, 10000RPM better) with less than 50% of space used.

Try that and see if Vegas 10 still crashes.

[Stephen Mann]

I can crash Vegas (and Photoshop and other CPU intensive programs) by simply getting too far ahead of the program. I don’t consider it a bug or a Vegas crash, because I can cause at will. If I slow down and let the program’s command buffer catch up, I never crash.

But, I am experimenting with an SSD for my video projects. Results will be reported when they are available.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Christopher Key]

I do have several external drives so that could be part of the problem and I may also need to slow down a little. (one of the things I’ve always loved about Vegas is its speed – I’ve worked alongside FCP editors and they always say “how’d you do that so fast?”)I’m still working on a 32 bit operating system as well. I’m looking forward to building a new 64 bit computer system with lots of memory and internal drives

[Kelly Griffin]

I’m still getting lots of crashes in V10, but I’ve seemed to narrow them down to this: If I add an event to a timeline and then “undo”, Vegas crashes, always. Or if I delete an event from a timeline, and then “undo”, Vegas crashes, always. Is anyone else experiencing this, or knows why this is happening?

BTW, I know about frequent saving and “don’t do that”, but I’d ultimately like to get to a point where I’m not always in “workaround” mode…

[Frank Stevn]

My System has

– Six-Core Intel® Core™ i7-980X 3.33GHz 6.4GT/s QPI 12MB
– 24 GB RAM,
– 2 x ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5
– Win7-64.

Vegas 10 works OK. No crashes at all when using only internal drives.

The only problem is that the old MPG1 are not rendered OK in Vegas10 and we must use them in a custom player application.

Aside from that Vegas 10 works very well.

[Nigel O’neill]

Christopher, have you recently introduced new media/software into your workflow i.e. bought a new camera, added DIVX files, installed a new plug-in etc into your project?

Have you installed any CODEC packs? They are bad for Vegas!

When NXCAM first came out and I was still on SVP9, it would crash during scrubbing. When SVP10 was released, that stopped, I presume because Sony had added the proper codec support.

Have you recently added JPEGs or similar graphics to the timeline?

What is your operating system and patch level? I know that Windows 7 x64 recently released SP1, which could have impacted your Vegas installation. I am on Win7 x64 SP1 and have not encountered any issues, but then again I only edit in HDV and occassionally, Canon AVCHD and Sony NXCAM/MXF files, all of which edit fine in SVP10.

Are all your projects being affected, including old ones which previously never crashed?

Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Christopher Key]

Have not added any codecs – my camera shoots HDV footage – although lately I’ve been shooting SD widescreen instead of Hi-Def since its going to end upon a standard DVD. I actually do a lot of work with jpegs and stills but not lately.

I know I need to upgrade my computer – currently I’m working with Windows 7, Intel Core2Quad Q660 @2.4GHz, 4GB ram. Nvidia Quadro FX1500

I have not yet installed SP1 -(maybe I should) – As far as old projects I have no idea since I’ve been busy with new ones. Usually it crashes when I try to manually move the cursor during playback without pausing or stopping first.Maybe this is a bad habit I should never have developed but I never had these sorts of problem in previous versions and it takes awhile to create new habits.

I am finding if I save often, work slower and pause or stop the project before moving the cursor I don’t have as many problems – but working slower is the opposite of what I would like:)

Christopher Key

[Nigel O’neill]

Scrubbing should never be an issue, although I tend to scrub using the JKL keys after clicking on the timeline to roughly place the cursor. I seldom do so using the mouse alone.

The Quaddro FX 1500, albeit underpowered, should not cause crashes.

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling Vegas?

Intel i7 920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10 (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6