Sony Vegas 10 64bit is crashing when I try to import a mp4 file

[Graham Bernard]

Iis it out of sync after a render?

– g

[Nigel O’neill]

K-lite and other codec packs are strongly recommended NOT to be used with Vegas and can cause massive problems during the edit stage and render phase. Installing the K-Lite codec pack is the WORST thing you could have done.

The first thing I would do is uninstall the K-Lite codec pack, reboot your computer, uninstall and re-install Vegas Pro. With any luck, this will re-establish the codecs that came with Vegas.

Search this forum and you will find this advice everywhere.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[John Rofrano]

[Stanislav Alekseev] “I’m using K lite Full pack (both 32bit and 64bit versions).”

That’s your problem right there. As Nigel said, uninstall K-Lite, reboot, re-install Vegas, and pray that you didn’t do permanent damage that requires a reformat to recover from.

~jr

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[Stanislav Alekseev]

It renders the same way it imports into Vegas

[Stanislav Alekseev]

@Nigel and John

Thank you – will try that

What codec pack is acceptable to use with Sony Vegas ?

[John Rofrano]

[Stanislav Alekseev] “What codec pack is acceptable to use with Sony Vegas ?”

No codec-pak is acceptable.

Do you understand what a codec-pak is?

Installing a codec-pak is like taking all of the pills in your medicine cabinet in hopes that one of them will cure you. One of them might… but the others could kill you.

What they do is take the high quality codecs that you paid Sony good money for when you bought Vegas, and overlaid them with free, questionable quality, substitutes that quite often, don’t work with Vegas. This is never a good idea. Sony Vegas does not need any codecs-paks to handle MP4 files and you should not be install any additional codecs for this.

Never, ever install a codec-pak on a video editing workstation. They are notorious for causing errors in Vegas and the don’t always uninstall cleanly. What you should do is only install the codecs that you need, as you need them, from the manufacturer that makes the codec. That is the only safe way to deal with codecs.

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Stanislav Alekseev]

Thank you for the detailed explanation – I’ve been using K-lite with Sony Vegas since version 8 and I’ve never had a problem like that before, so I never had a reason to delete it and hand pick my codecs.

About this particular mp4 – I’ve uninstalled K-lite and reinstalled Sony Vegas – the result is the same total crash

This is the interesting part – the video now plays, both in Quick Time and in Firefox (just dragged and dropped it there, not streaming) out of sync just like it did when I converted it and played it in Vegas!

Could it be something wrong with the particular video ?

The video was already edited and from the looks of it the person didn’t know much about what they were doing (almost 2/3 of the screen is black and there’s a little box in the middle with the video inside lol) can’t tell you whether it was edited on Mac or PC

[John Rofrano]

It could be just that MP4 file. Try another one and if that works then it could be file specific.

~jr

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[Sukhdev Kitare]

Hi ..this is my first post..i’m using sony vegas 10e 32 bit on windows 7 ..issues i’m having is whilst uploading large quantities of .MXF files from XDcam HD …Sony Vegas crashes with a ‘UNMANAGED EXEPTION OXC0000005’ error …,iv also tried vegas 11 64bit and the sme happens with that..yet the same files work fine with sony vegas 9…help plsss

Sony Vegas user