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Running Out Of Memory Vista/W7
Hi all. Been using Vegas for a few years now and it always worked flawlessly. This time, it didn’t. I installed the new version 9 to do a wedding video for someone. Worked great until I got around 1H 15 M of video clips added. Then it rapidly degrades and starts crashing, usually fage fault errors. If I add even a single or a few clips, it crashes, then it even becomes very hard to restore it as when it reaches this point, even zooming in or clicking on things crashes it. When I go to render, it says system is low on memory. an error has ocured, and crashes. I installed vegas 8 instead, it does the same. I installed windows 7 instead. same thing. I finally had to (after several attempts) save it in sections and join them with another program, as the deadline ran out, but it was messy and time consuming… not the professional result I had planned.
The clips were sony’s own Mpeg2 recompressed from a HD camera (a Sony).
Has anyone had this problem and figured out a solution? I tried a memory manager to force some memory, I tried a huge swap (virtual) file… All failed to solve Vegas’s hunger for memory, and I have 4GB, should be more than enuff… -
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Probably one of th emore knowledgeable guys will come on and answer you in a little bit. I assume you have the latest version 9.0b? If not, I would download that. I would also report the problem, so Sony can work on it.
https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/technicalsupport.asp
But it sounds like you are an advanced user, so you have probably done all of that stuff already….
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Yea, make sure that you are using 9.0b. HD takes a lot of memory. I haven’t experienced these problems but I have 8GB of memory on Vista 64.
You didn’t say if you were using the 64-bit version of Vista/Win 7. If you are using the 32-bit version… it doesn’t matter that you have 4GB of memory, because 32-bit applications can only use 2GB. This might be the problem.
~jr
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I’m sorry, yes Sony told me this is an issue, and try the 64 bit version. Other forums say this helps. I have Windows 7 now, and it supports… wow. 192GB! Still, a good piece of software should never bite the hand that feeds it, and Vegas seems to do that. Never had the problem in XP tho…
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I too have recently experienced this on Win 7. The question is whether it used to happen on XP, and for me the answer is no. So don’t be quite so eager to blame ram and switch to 64 bit, I think there’s more to it.
In my 7 minute video I had to render in 4 sections, after a while it would just crash when I tried to add more clips at 1280×720. Equally, trying to render in any format would just result in a crash.
Luckily the crash info is sent to Sony, so hopefully they should be able to build up a profile of their software’s limitations on win 7.
But certainly the behaviour I witnessed can’t simply be attributed to ram, because I know the same project would run fine on XP with 2gb…
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Yes the memory you would think wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, as it is not like the program loads all the video into memory anyway. I used to have no problems until about version 8. On XP I never had problems. Couple years ago when I started doing video the program would just vanish in the middle or rendering. THAT was annoying. It could happen anywhere, but usually with the same frame. Turned out to be a Pic Video Mpeg thing.
This one has me baffled. I am rendering standard size video too, not even HD. I could pre-render it in sections, but pain in ass. Seems to be different things that cause the crash each time, these page faults. The send to sony box can’t even show up.
And why do I not need a password to log onto this site? Seems rather odd… -
>>And why do I not need a password to log onto this site? Seems rather odd…
Maybe this is a long shot, but have you run a full virus scan in safe mode?
Norman Willis
http://www.nazareneisrael.org
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