Sony Vegas Pro 10 low memory error…

[James Donovan]

Good evening

Mr. Rofrano, i’m not using Pro 10, but Pro 9. Nonetheless, there is an issue that i’ve just started having and was wondering if you had heard of this before: I am starting a new 720P project. I have about 35 2-minute clips that need to be imported into Vegas. I get about 28-30 of them in and then get a low memory message, clips start to turn sold red, crazy stuff. 4 GB of memory and no other programs running. What is your method for importing clips into a new project? I’m starting to think my process is the problem. I appreciate any help you can give me

[John Rofrano]

[James Donovan] ” I have about 35 2-minute clips that need to be imported into Vegas. I get about 28-30 of them in and then get a low memory message, clips start to turn sold red, crazy stuff.”

I would download the trial of Vegas Pro 10 64-bit and see if it can handle more clips. If it can, then upgrading is your best solution. if it can’t then you may need to work with a smaller number of clips in two separate projects and combine them into a single project later using nesting.

[James Donovan] “What is your method for importing clips into a new project?”

I just drag and drop them onto the timeline from the file system after I capture them. I work mostly with HDV and haven’t had any problems. I normally edit shows that use 200 clips and over 700 events over 20 tracks and I don’t run out of memory at all using Vegas Pro 10 64-bit.

~jr

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

[Joe Mizera]

One thing I did finally discover that causes the “out of memory” error almost every single time is embedding .veg files on the timeline. In particular, when the embedded .veg file contains mpeg4 source video. I don’t recall this happening with my prior camera, which produced mpeg2 source files. Once I realized this, I’ve not been able to duplicate it any other way. The solution for my situation was to render, rather than embed the veg file. An extra step of course, but it worked.

Joe Mizera
Mizera Digital
https://www.austexvideo.com

[Brad Miller]

I have this problem in every version of Vegas from 8 to 11, so upgrading won’t fix it.

I can render a one-pass mpg (1 thread, 0 MB RAM Preview), but when I try to render it with two passes it always gives me the low memory issue. I have 4GB of ram, as well.

[Marc Farley]

I also had the memory low problem using both Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 8 and Vegas Movie Studio HD. I was rendering a scene with a lot of short WMV clips for a 3 minute music video output as a 720p (1280 x 720) WMV file. The only images were those that were made from the video editor, so they weren’t particularly large.

8 GB of RAM and I was watching with Windows Performance Monitor, which never had less than 3000 MB FREE – not just available. I would get 90% rendered and it would fail. This is obviously a failure of Vegas software to use the memory that is available in the system. ARRGHH. I wasted a couple days being frustrated by this.

I read the advice here to reduce RAM preview settings (I reduced from 256 MB to 64 MB) and threads ( I reduced from 4 to 2). This worked. Thanks.