crashing

[Steve Rhoden]

Which version of vegas are you referring to?
and at which point is Vegas crashing?

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Rob Burkhardt]

Steve,
Thanks for getting back so quickly

I have vegas pro 8 latest updates. I tried running in xp 32bit.

I am trying to edit AVCHD that has gone through Caliberated {Q}XD so that I can edit it in vegas.

I just wondered what is the minimum software/CPU/RAM you would use to run vegas with out problems. Or how did you customize your machinne?

[Joel Taylor]

Hi Rob,

I’ve been editing HD footage lately and managed to do 3 hours of 1080i footage without crashing. I am running 32bit XP too but I dont think this is a bad thing. It seems to run really well in XP. I have a quad core 2ghz CPU, 2 Gig RAM, Nvidea 8600GT Graphics Card and 500GB hard drive so as you can see it’s an ok computer but nothing special and Vegas seems to work. I’m thinking it may be a bug in the program but it’s really hard to tell without seeing it.

Hope this helps

[Steve Rhoden]

Vegas can actually run flawlessly on the skimpiest of any
PC’s…the minimum requirements is listed on the site.
Its that AVCHD format that is probably causing the crash.
Does it crashes when handling any other format?

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Nigel O’neill]

Rob

I regularly edit large projects using both AVCHD and m2t on the timeline and have had no issues with Vegas Pro 8. As a former user of video editing products from other high profile companies I shall not mention, I have found Vegas to be a reliable/dependable workhorse.

Without any specific of the errors you are experiencing, crashes can be caused by conflicts with other software on the PC. Ideally, your editing machine should be as vanilla as possible with no antivirus or firewall software installed.

I have had problems in the past with underrated power supplies and video driver problems, but they tend to result in blue screens, not application crashes.

I recently was experiencing Vegas crashes during renders, but it turned out one on my project media assets (a video file) was corrupted. It did take me a while to figure it out with a bit of trial and error by doing Render As on a segment of the timeline at a time. If you have the luxury of a second PC (I believe your licence entitles you to install Vegas on up to 3 computers for network rendering), you can simply copy your entire project folder to a portable hard disk e.g. veg files, media files etc., and try rendering the project on another installation of Vegas.

Hope this assists, but for us to be of any further assistance, you really need to provide more specifics surrounding your problem.

[Joe Brueske]

One aspect of Sony tech support that I appreciate is that you can e-mail them after loging into their site and send crash reports so they can tell you what’s going on. I haven’t worked with your media, but the last project I was working on Vegas kept crashing virtually every 30 seconds. I was using “HD” media pulled from YouTube and in one of those files, there was something Vegas didn’t like. So it kept crashing. Tech support picked it up right away.

[John Rofrano]

> I am trying to edit AVCHD that has gone through Caliberated {Q}XD so that I can edit it in vegas.

Why are you putting your AVCHD footage through Caliberated {Q}XD? Vegas edits most AVCHD natively. Just drop it on the timeline. Using Caliberated {Q}XD on your footage is most likely the problem. What camera did this footage come from?

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Rob Burkhardt]

Thanks
I tend to edit at wierd hours so I’ll have to schedual a time to get to gether with tech support.

[Rob Burkhardt]

It kept crashing my last computer but i also had to small of a powersupply to run all my periphials; you can’t trust a professinal computer geek when he tells you he can custom build a windows computer.

[Rob Burkhardt]

I think I have about thesame setup as you but I built this really fast to finish an edit job 3 months ago and don’t remember all the spacifics of my machine.