Sony Vegas Plat 9 crashing.

[Stephen Mann]

If the crash occurs at the same point in the timeline, especially on a second machine, I would likely suspect that you have bad media. Try rendering “around” the crash point.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[James Phenicie]

Thanks… I’m not at the rendering point… I’m still working on adding clips to the timeline… I re-edited the clips and now am back to the 6 min mark…
each time I go into Explore and click on a file, I get an error message: an Exception has occurred and get this code….

Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0
Version 9.0b (Build 92)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) WRITE:0x24397E8 IP:0x7814500A
In Module ‘MSVCR80.dll’ at Address 0x78130000 + 0x1500A
Thread: VideoRender ID=0xE9C Stack=0x90CF000-0x90D0000
Registers:
EAX=7ddf1420 CS=001b EIP=7814500a EFLGS=00010212
EBX=00001400 SS=0023 ESP=090cf73c EBP=090cf744
ECX=00000500 DS=0023 ESI=7ddf0020 FS=003b
EDX=00000000 ES=0023 EDI=024397e8 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
7814500A: F3 A5 FF 24 95 24 51 14 …: 78 90 8B C7 BA 03 00 00 x…….
Stack Dump:
090CF73C: 7DDF0020 7DDF0000 + 20
090CF740: 024397E8 02350000 + E97E8
090CF744: 000002D0
090CF748: 01507F78 01320000 + 1E7F78 (vegasmoviestudiope90k.dll)
090CF74C: 024397E8 02350000 + E97E8
090CF750: 7DDF0020 7DDF0000 + 20
090CF754: 00001400
090CF758: 00000000
090CF75C: 00001400
090CF760: 020B6BC0 01FE0000 + D6BC0
090CF764: FFFFEC00
090CF768: 00000000
090CF76C: 00000000
090CF770: 00000000
090CF774: 01400000 01320000 + E0000 (vegasmoviestudiope90k.dll)
090CF778: 00B40000 00400000 + 740000 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
> 090CF784: 01400000 01320000 + E0000 (vegasmoviestudiope90k.dll)
> 090CF788: 00B40000 00400000 + 740000 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
090CF78C: 00000000
090CF790: 00000000
090CF794: 00000000
090CF798: 00000000
> 090CF7B0: 01400000 01320000 + E0000 (vegasmoviestudiope90k.dll)
– – –
090CFFF0: 00000000
090CFFF4: 005A1980 00400000 + 1A1980 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
090CFFF8: 0290BB30 02890000 + 7BB30
090CFFFC: 00000000

It doesn’t matter which file I try to access, the Error message occurs. This is driving me nuts…

[Stephen Mann]

Everything after “access violation” is of value only to the original programmer, and then only in controlled conditions.

We have all seen access violations occur since we took ownership of our first x86 PC’s. The infamous “Bluescreen”, application crashes, it doesn’t really matter, access violations are all over the place. For any of you that remember the good old Windows 9x days, a General Protection Fault and Invalid Page Fault are basically the same thing (and a segmentation fault too). To many people, the phrase ‘access violation’ is synonymous with “crash”. But what exactly is an access violation?

To put it simply, an access violation occurs any time an area of memory is accessed that the program doesn’t have permission to access. This can be due to bad code, faulty RAM or even a bad device driver. It really doesn’t matter who the culprit is, the root issue is the same.

The free program: Prime95, available at https://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103 will torture test your PC. If you have bad RAM or a heat sensitive component, this program will find it. While you may not be overclocking, Vegas is very processor intensive – more than Premiere. If you have a PC on the edge of stability, Prime95 will push your PC hard. If you can run Prime95 for an hour, then your PC is probably not the problem.

If you have a problem driver, I recommend running Driver Detective from https://www.drivershq.com/ (Actually a good plan is to run Driver Detective periodically. I doesn’t do anything to your installed drivers unless you tell it to.)

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com