media library

[John Rofrano]

…is it possible to deinstall just the media manager?

Yes, you can uninstall just the Media Manager but there is no need to. Just turn it off and see if it helps. The setting is in Options | Preferences | General then uncheck: Enable Media Manager (requires restart) and restart Vegas Pro.

~jr

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

[Matt Cohn]

thank you John

[Drew Veeneman]

I just had the same problem today with Vegas 8.1 running on Vista 64.

Whatever happened, Vegas is unstable for me now. It has trouble opening some projects… the project opens at first… slowly and nothing appears on the timeline… then it locks up a minute or two later.

I tried reinstalling Vegas… but the problem came back.

I’ve had Vegas running smoothly on this machine for a couple years now. Anyway, I’m about to try reinstalling the OS now… Vista probably has something to do with this.

[John Rofrano]

I’ve had Vegas running smoothly on this machine for a couple years now. Anyway, I’m about to try reinstalling the OS now… Vista probably has something to do with this.

Do you have Microsoft’s “automatic updates” turned on? It should NOT be. Also do you do daily incremental backups? You SHOULD be!

Automatic updates should never be turned on in a production environment. You need to be in control of when your computer gets updated so that you can be sure to have a backup in case the update breaks something. I use Acronis Trueimage to make an incremental backup of my computer every morning. I can fully restore it back to any day in the last 30 days if something goes wrong (I keep a month of daily backups). I also have Microsoft Updates alert me of new updates but I decide when to apply them. I only apply them between projects and never during a project.

If you are thinking of re-installing the OS, you should seriously think about upgrading to Windows 7 64-bit. Nobody should be using Vista anymore.

~jr

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

[Matt Cohn]

i found this helped work round the problems we are experiencing:

-new project
-browse to a clip thats in the folder where most of yr clips for the project you want to open are
-import that clip so its on the timeline
-NOW try and open the project you want.

I think 64bit windows /vegas gets easily confused over paths. This seems to kick it onto the right path

Pathetic but it works for me

@JR, yes Vista is death! gonna upgrade asap.

[Drew Veeneman]

Do you have Microsoft’s “automatic updates” turned on? It should NOT be. Also do you do daily incremental backups? You SHOULD be!

I don’t have the updates set on automatic, but I approve most of them unless they look evil.

… covered with backups and the restore points. I also like to keep my footage off the main computer c: hard-drive. This makes replacing the OS more convenient.

* In my case there weren’t any updates that happened around the project… I may have improperly closed vegas because I got impatient(it was probably doing an autosave and I got annoyed… or was that when I tried to drop a 100 tif images into the project media box at once). Whatever happened, my system felt like some sort of windows software was rot going on.

… And I agree with you 100% on ditching vista for windows 7. Unfortunately I blew my money cash on lots of pizza and beer… so I’m stuck with it through this month… with some podcasts I want to crank out.

Time to rebirth vista and hack it till it’s fast… I’ll post the results.

-Drew Veeneman

http://www.politicalmechanics.us

[Drew Veeneman]

Nice! I’ll try this before hand when the final backup is done.

Thanks Matt!

-Drew Veeneman

http://www.politicalmechanics.us

[Drew Veeneman]

Ok, Vista is reborn!

Whatever it was, it fixed the problem. Vegas is solid again… although still has a hard time finding files on old projects… but that’s nothing new.

That aside, the way I crashed Vegas before was trying to load a pile of TIF images… a frame by frame mask for a some 3D graphics I rendered out of C4D. I’ve since figured out that you can open these frame-by-frame images with that “still images in sequence” box checked. That works much better.

The lesson here is don’t load over a 100 TIF files at once and then try to save your choking .VEG project. Don’t do that…

Time to kick out another podcast this weekend.

-Drew Veeneman

http://www.politicalmechanics.us

[Mike Kujbida]

“The lesson here is don’t load over a 100 TIF files at once and then try to save your choking .VEG project.”

The real lesson should be to not use TIFs at all.
For reasons that I forget, a TIF file makes a call to QuickTime on each and every frame of your video.
You’ll find that Vegas will work much better if you batch convert the TIFs to PNG (my personal preference), TGA or even JPG before bringing them into Vegas.