crashing

[Rob Burkhardt]

I know what the specs say but I wanted to know what the real world might prefer. I finished an edit useing xdcam transcoded with Sony’s software and it worked but my computer might have been suffering from to small power supply.

[Rob Burkhardt]

Thanks
you restored my confidence in VEGAS, I will work with tech support to get this problem fixed. I converted my AVCHD files in a manner that JVC recomended for VEGAS. The rental house did not have the XDCAM converter installed on the camera at the time; that worked fine last winter.

[Mike Kujbida]

…but my computer might have been suffering from to small power supply.

Rob, I built a quad core about 2 years ago and based my specs around the sytem John Rofrano has on his site.
He uses a 600 W. power supply and I believe mine was at least that strong.
The machine runs extremely well 🙁

[Rob Burkhardt]

I rented a new JVC HM-700 that did not have the XDCAM converter back on it yet. I liked the fact that I could record on a medium that I did not have to buy or rent a playback device. The camera worked great by the way!

I’ll just have to work wit tech support to figure out the crash problem.

[Rob Burkhardt]

Mike
Thanks I will check out the specs. That and all your support has been a great help. When useing VEGAS I have liked it a lot but have so many crashing problems in the past, I wanted to find out what you guys were doing before I abandoned it.

Thanks for all the advice everbody I have to drive to COlORADO and back so I may not beable to post for the next few days, but keep the replys comming!

[Nigel O’neill]

Rob

Obtaining a *quality* power supply is essential, amongst other components. Oftentimes, cheaper power supplies rated at xxx watts tend to underperform under heavy load.

For example, I used to run an ASUS A32N-SLI board with an AMD 4400 CPU Quaddro 1500 FX card, 2 x IDE burners, 5 x SATA HDD (3 of which were WD Raptors) and 2GB of DDR2 RAM off a quality 500W Power Supply Unit. A mate of mine skimped on the PSU in a nearly identical setup and after replacing his PSU, calm returned!

In closing, I should add that a stable editing platform is a eco-system of parts carefully chosen to be compatible with each other: motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard disks, graphics card, power supply, operating system and installed software all most co-exist happily.

And then there is the setup and tuning of the PC to optimise it for editing and to draw maximum performance from your hardware… .

[Luc Enders]

I have a brand new Dell Core i7 with 6GB memory and Vegas also crashes for me on this machine most often when rendering to MP4/AVC with AVCHD 1080i files. I tried 2 other machines and same results.

Sony hasn’t been able to help me in none of these crashes and they always say I need to uninstall and kill any programs. So I spend time installing a brand new OS clean install and have nothing else installed than Vegas. And yet still it crashes with a call stack not showing any other programs. They have the call stack so I don’t get why they won’t commit in fixing the memory bug (which call stack is identical to other users reporting this).

It seems to be a combination of using 32bit color space and project with several AVCHD files rendering to MP4 or also WMVHD.

I did find that Vegas 9 64bit is slightly more stable but I still get some crashes with it. I decided not to spend more money on v9 just because they didn’t fix all issues in v8:-(.

[Rob Burkhardt]

So do you think it’s time to abandon VEGAS for say Adobe or move to a MAC and FCP?

Rob The Video Guy