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Vegas 10e crashes when putting 67 clips into project media bin
Hey guys,
I’ve been having a lot of problems with Vegas 10 crashing, and now I’m having a new one. I have 67 avi clips that I captured from a Canon Vixia HF S21, converted to avi using Cineform, and imported them into Vegas. Vegas 10 has been kind of a pain and crashing a lot in the few weeks I’ve had it, but now is the first time that every time I try to create a project for the 67 clips I just shot and import them to the project media, Vegas crashes with this error:
Unmanaged Exception (0xc0000005)
And an avi.dll message. I guess the weird thing about it is I can get around this by importing a smaller number of clips at a time. I’ve kept it to ten, will go back to my folder with all the clips, import another ten, and continue until I’m done. And when I drag the clips onto the timeline, it crashes, but as long as I save it before it does then I can usually re-open it without it crashing.
I sent an email to Sony’s tech support. Should I try re-installing Vegas? I’m going to try to go through my entire computer to see anything that could be causing this. I’m also noticing that I frequently hear the fan on my CPU getting noisy when it didn’t before. CPU usage is pretty low, so I don’t think that’s an issue. I don’t know if it’s over heating, but for all the processor intensive stuff I’ve been doing with my computer, rendering footage and editing projects with more clips and longer in length than the one I’m doing now, I kind of doubt it’s that.
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I saw the same thing with a much larger project and ended up with the same solution. I just added the clips a dozen or so at a time until all were part of the project and that avoided the crashes. This was a while ago but I believe my workflow at the time was converting .MOVs from a 7D to AVI using NeoScene and then importing the AVIs. The thing is, I think that it happened to me with Vegas 9 pro rather than 10 pro. Since then I’ve just imported the .MOVs directly into 10 pro and I don’t think I’ve seen the problem since.
Anyhow, I found the workaround so that particular kind of crash never bothered me too much. Personally, I automatically save without thinking about it before I’m going to do a long series of undos. That’s crashed on me so many times that the save has become almost a reflex.
Regarding your CPU fan, that’s normal behavior. With a good heatsink, the temp in a modern CPU can go up or down extremely quickly and the CPU fan speed will follow along with it. You could install something like RealTemp to see if the CPU fan is doing its job but probably it is. This kind of crashing is more likely software than hardware but you can torture test with Prime95 in torture test mode to be sure. If your machine can run that for 24 hours without an error then your CPU is likely not the problem. But I’ve seen this problem on my machine which is rock solid and I just ended up doing what you did.
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