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Sony vegas pro 8.0b crashing
I am having serious problems with vegas crashing. I have vegas pro 8.0 b. I havent had any trouble with it until recently I made an 8 minute video and I keep getting an error an exception has occured and it shuts down. It will not let me render either it says memory is to low but I know that is not true I have 3gb of ram. I am running windows vista. Has anybody had the same problem and what did you do to fix it. I have already reinstalled it but that didnt do a thing. help please. I even opened up the .bak files and that didnt help
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Not sure if this will help, but…I’m on Windows XP, not Vista. I did have the same crashing problem with a .veg project. I happened to have some different formats in the project that I think caused the problem. I had HDV and NTSC widescreen avi files in the project and when I deleted the HDV files, the problem went away. I think there was some type of frame rate conflict because I was getting a weird artifact on the first frame of every HDV clip. Try either getting rid of some clips or playing around with the project properties. Might help.
Good luck,
Mary Waitrovich
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3 gigs in vista really isn’t that much and the warning message could very well be the hint you need.
Shut off all background operations (things in your task bar- especially any virus protection) and turn off aero. That should free up some of that ram.
Also, what is your project made of? Pictures? jpeg pictures? Are they straight from the camera? If so, shrink them down and convert to png- they can easily bogg down Vegas.
You may also want to try rendering a portion of your 8 minute timeline utlizing a format such as cineform avi (if you are working in HD) or some uncompressed avi file (it will eat up a lot of hard drive space) but you keep the file up to the point that the render stopped. So, the next render could start right where you left off. Then butt these up together on the timeline and render out to your preferred format.
j razz
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My video is direct from the camera I am using standard definition video from a sony handycam. I import my video and then drag it to the timeline is that the way to do it. Do you down size your video before you put them on the timeline if so what program do you use and does it affect your quality.
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Is your handicam mini-dv or mini-dvd?
Also, per “down-sizing”- no. You would not do this with standard definition footage.
If your camera is mini-dvd, go to file and then import dvd while your dvd is in the drive.
If mini-dv (tape based) after capture you should just be able to drag it to your timeline from your project media tab without issue.
Did you try any of the suggestions I made in the previous post?
j razz
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I tried a reinstall but that didnt help. I downloaded the 120 dollars version of vegas and seem to have no problems rendering or making a long movie. For some reason in vegas pro when I open a saved project I get the error exception occured and it shuts down. One of my videos I can open but If I try to do anything to it shuts down on me. My video is comprised of some film from memory cards some for mini dvds. It also seems to take alot of memory when I load a saved video
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