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Sony Vegas Platinum 10.0 crashing
First some background: I’m new to this website/forum and have a rather basic understanding of the technical aspects of computers and software. In knowledge terms I sort of know what a codec does – okay?!
My video editing experience began with Cyberlink PowerDirector, but it was buggier than a hive of bees so was swiftly replaced by Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0, which I have been using for the last 5 years or so.
Have just got myself a Sony Cybershot with HD video capability, and since the media file format isn’t recognised by my Adobe software, I decided to get Sony Vegas and went for the most recent version – Movie Studio Platinum 10.0.
However it is now giving me flashbacks to my Cyberlink days by crashing with annoying frequency. At the moment all I have got done of a friend’s wedding video is importing around 80 clips and placing about 10 of them on the timeline with a bit of trimming here and there. The crash is of the ‘not responding’ type with screen whiting out and annoying circle thing going round and round.
My laptop is getting on a bit – a 5 year old Sony Vaio, dual core, 2 GHz, 2GB RAM. All within Sony Vegas requirements, but on the lower end. Graphics card maybe? Perhaps it’s the differing media file formats – .mod and .mp4?
Suggestions gratefully received, especially as I am locked into using this software now because Adobe Premiere Elements lacks a function that allows me to convert old camcorder 4.3 clips to 16.9 to match the clips from the HD camera.
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Not sure to be able to help, anyway your problem looks similar to the one I had a few weeks ago, with the .MOV files I was importing from my Canon EOS 7D.
Like you I also have the Platinum HD 10.0 version of Vegas.
3 tracks that you might investigate:
1) Thanks to John Rofrano on this forum, I bought Cineform Neoscene to convert my .MOV files into .AVI files, and then the crashes disappeared when I imported the AVIs instead of the MOVs in my Vegas project. 7D’ .MOV files are known to be hard to handle by Vegas… maybe there is the same problem for your footages??
2) Did you try to drag-and-drop your footages from the “project media” to the time line, rather than dragging them from the “explorer” tab ? In my case, it was helping…
3) did you try to open the Windows task manager (“performance” tab) to see how your computer’s memory behave when you import your files in your project? Depending on the size of your footages, you might run out of memory, leading to long long response times from Vegas.
Hope this helps, and good luck for solving your issue…
Frederic
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