Crashes in Vegas Pro 10

[Boris Yamnitsky]

we’ve not noticed any instability with BCC Chromakey filter. It should not require additional ram setting to render so you can bring it down to standard 180Meg. If you continue to experience a problem please contact our support. We’d like to reproduce it in-house.

Boris Yamnitsky
BorisFX

[Andreas Schwabe]

RAM definitely shouldn’t be an issue in my case. i7 920, 12GB of RAM, and 4 TB of drive space, running Win7 64-bit. ATI Radeon 4870.

Sadly, the problem is easily reproducable. You can see a video of an example crash at https://www.schwabe.ca/video.html

I have already submitted a report on the BorisFX website (twice – a week apart but haven’t heard back yet at all).

Thanks,
~A

[Jeremy Ellis]

Hello Andreas,

I will take a look into this for you and if you do have any further information you can email it directly to me at jeremye@borisfx.com

Thank You
Jeremy
Boris Support

[Al Bergstein]

I am looking for a better chroma keying tool for Vegas 10.a but worried about this thread. I’ll check with the Boris web site, but wondering if this is still a problem. I too have a similar configured system. i7, dual quad core, 8 GBs RAM. W7 Ultimate 64 w/Vegas 10a.

Willing to buy but not sure it will work? Crashes I don’t need at this moment…if ever…(G).

Alf

[Andreas Schwabe]

Hi. It looks like BorisFX has recently posted updates to BCC7 for Vegas Pro 10. I’m happy to report that it’s quite stable on my system and for my use (which is basic keying of interviews /testimonials and scripted dialogue shot against green screen).

Download the trial from the BorisFX website. There may have been some issue with my hardware, but whatever they did in version 4.0.3 seems to have improved stability from the consistent crashing I was seeing. That said, I’ll run tests for a couple of weeks and then migrate from AE (if BFX is finally more stable, it’ll be a huge improvement in my workflow, since the keying tools (Chroma Key and Matte Choker) and very good.

[Al Bergstein]

I just downloaded the 64 bit version of Boris Continuum and compared their chroma key to my work with Sony’s native Chroma key. Day and night. Much better output with the same tool with no different work. I’ll send pointers to the files side by side over the weekend, but now I’ll test for stability and compare with native FCP green screen on my second editing bay.

If the stability is consistent, and easier to use, I’ll likely buy the package. I’ll try to remember to come back in a week or two, but if you don’t hear from me, it’s likely that there were no problems.

Thanks.

Alf

[Mark Nicholas]

Same here – repeated crashes – Vegas 10 – x64
8 gb ram – i7 super duper stable system

I had the crashes repeating every time I tried to remove a filter if the filter check box was still on.

Crashed again randomly several times – so my diagnosis was a bit off. Very frustrating.

Just downloaded the trial about 1/2 hour ago – so it is Boris’ most recent for sure.

Any fixes? We have a product showcase party for our club and are going to highlight video products for us DSLR shooters, but this seems to be too early of a product release to show. Ideas as to what might be going on?

Mark
https://www.meetup.com/rbphotos/
marknicholasonline.com

[Andreas Schwabe]

Hi Mark,

I’ve been in touch back and forth with someone at BorisFX but haven’t heard anything back yet in terms of diagnosis or fix.

While I’m sorry you’re having the same problems I am, I’m grateful I’m not going nuts.

Do me a favor: I have a habit of using the FX as floating panels. I’ve been trying everything, and one thing on my long list of “to try” is docking the floating panel. I tried it on my work system (haven’t tried it on an alternate system yet), but it SEEMED to give me a bit more stability. I have no idea what that could possibly have to do with anything, but I’ve had weirder things happen (like a network cable just spontaneously failing).

I’ll keep you posted, and please do the same if you find something that provides some stability. The plugins are really good, but right now I can’t rely on them.

[Mark Nicholas]

Thanks. Docked and more stable –

One recurring crash was when I would hit the “enter” key in the text box (found in a number of the plug-ins). Trying to get a two line piece of text caused recurring crashes, even after rebooting.

Also, found crashes to diminish when I would “uncheck” the plugin in the Vegas effect window before deleting it. When I didn’t, would crash with consistency.

Another funny bug when the length of a clip was longer than the effect, an adjustment to the end of the clip would cause all kinds of confusion in the cache, and could corrupt the output on the render.

I will offer this assessment … that when stable, it is quite awesome for only one day of playing with such a complex tool. The film destroying plug in is as realistic as I’ve ever seen (far far better than magic bullet in my opinion) and renders instantly. A bunch of the other effects will take much more time to work through, but so far so good. Now if I could just keep this thing working, I’ll actually buy it.

[Andreas Schwabe]

Okay, now I’m really confused. I seriously didn’t think the docking would make any difference (I thought it was just me). Well, I’ll pass along a note to the tech I’m corresponding with and let him know.

I haven’t tried the check/uncheck thing (it didn’t actually occur to me). Though, the docked effect stability is intriguing.

And I have to agree, since I end up doing a lot of green screen work (which I hate), NOT using AE and just doing it natively in Vegas is a huge plus…if only I could do it with confidence.

Keep me posted if you see anything else.