Thumbnail creation causes Vegas 12 to crash

[Larry Brewer]

But what if my PC’s GPU was already turned off? What if I had never turned it on? What if my PC doesn’t have a ZXC95BPD so I can’t upgrade to the latest ZXC95DPX version?

So many questions, so few answers…

[Steve Rhoden]

lol….

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[Jay Allen]

Mike Kujbida offered this tip from Paddy and it worked for me!

Please navigate to the following folder (make sure hidden files and folders are being shown):

C:Users[your user name]AppDataLocalSonyVegas Pro12.0Media Pool Thumbnails

Select all of the contents of this folder, and delete them. Then launch Vegas again, and you should be back in business.

[Tommo Thomson]

yip – same probs here with thumbnails – SV10 is crash central – considering Avid – but so used to how SV works after many years. Switch thumbs off and – no crash’s – so far. SV10 – Grrr…!

[Larry Brewer]

I appreciate the issues you’re having with Sony Vegas, we’ve all had bugs from time to time. But the thumbnail creation issue that causes Vegas to crash, I believe is isolated to the latest build of Sony Vegas 12 pro. The evidence seems to point to that, and I don’t recall any of these issues with Sony Vegas 10. Not that it didn’t have issues.

[Tommo Thomson]

Thanks for reply. It’s weird but I can confirm that, with thumbs dissabled, my project opens and I can edit to my hearts content. However – as soon as thumbs enabled – in under 10 seconds – blam – good old exception error and that’s yer lot matey!

I admit I have 2 files on the timeline around 18GB in total – s*d all effects – I mainly use P&C – .mts and mpg4 – hey ho.

Who knows – is it SV10? – SV9 seemed to be rock solid – however – also my new Sony cam records HD so I am dealing with much larger files…

I have (like all of us?) spent hours and hours editing a project – then to find it crash’s – it’s heartbreaking – but I have looked at Adobe forums – Avid forums – they are all the same…. guess I’ll just muddle through….

Gonna go and have my tea now – roast chicken – at least that wont crash… 🙂

Tommo

[Larry Brewer]

This was posted on a different thread a few days ago. It might relate to your situation. You might give it a try.

There’s a similar thread about this on the Sony Vegas forum and here’s the workaround, courtesy of Paddy from Sony.

Please navigate to the following folder (make sure hidden files and folders are being shown):

C:Users[your user name]AppDataLocalSonyVegas Pro12.0Media Pool Thumbnails

Select all of the contents of this folder, and delete them. Then launch Vegas again, and you should be back in business.

[Tommo Thomson]

Thanks so much for reply. Yes – I have seen this solution – however – it don’t work for SV10 – that folder doesn’t exist – but – happy to work without thumbs – shame tho.

I have to say I was going to upgrade to 12 – but downloaded the trial – it just crashed – so gave up and went back to 10.

Then again – I havent re-installed windows (7X64) for over 2 years (wow!) everything else seems bomb-proof – mebe a clean install – but awwww – what a pain… 😉

Thanks again.

Tommo

[Larry Brewer]

Your case my be related to other issues, as to why SVP 12 crashed from the get-go would be an indicator. My experience was that Vegas 12 was more or less fine until build 486 came along. I do grow weary of debating exactly what makes Vegas crash, while other editing software users debate more finer points. In order to trouble shoot this thumbnail issue I uninstalled and re-installed SVP 12 so many times my license stopped working. If it’s not one thing it’s another.

[Tommo Thomson]

…blimey – well credit to you fer sticking with it!!

I think that ultimately, Vegas is cracking – however – the stability issues really spoil what should be an enjoyable experience. Perhaps I expect too much – lets face it – the capabilities of computers in general are absolutely astonishing – and to have editing capabilities such that SV offers for little money is incredible – but perhaps I am getting too ‘off topic’ (I have little experience of forums)

I will use SV10 without thumbs and hope that, perhaps, SV13 will be a stable offering – I dread switching to Premiere – I found the UI ghastly – and Avid is sooooo much £.

Hey ho.

Tommo