Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 Crash

[Stephen Mann]

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GDI is Graphic Device Interface. Windows 7 limit (via the registry) defaults to 10,000 objects per process. If you have a lot of images and media files, you could eat all your GDI’s which presents itself as “Out of Memory”.

Every window, every button, every icon – everything on the display needs a GDI. Some programs will create the GDI’s needed by everything that needs a GDI, even if it’s not on the screen. Vegas does this, MS Office Programs do, too.

You can open the Task Manager, click on the processes tab, then click on the GDI column to sort them by size. Surprisingly, Firefox on my PC ties up 4,097 GDI’s, while a small Vegas project only uses 531 GDI’s.

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

[Carl Lundell]

Hi again!

I might not be needing further help with the memory issue because I just figured out that the problem I had with Sony vegas was caused by Xfire that records in a different codec and such. I’m now using Fraps and I made a test by recording 40 minutes of material (48 clips). There was no harm done. My project was running smoothly and it didn’t crash. So I guess my way out of this is to use fraps for the next time I make a game movie… what do you say? =D