Vegas 8.0c. Are you kidding me????

[Hari Viswanathan]

Hi Stan,

I’m not an expert with vegas either but I’ll tell you what my experience has been. I cannot get vegas 8.0c to work with my canon avchd files. Apparently quite a few people have this same problem but not everyone. I have an intel quad and from reading on the sony forum many with the quad-avchd-vegas8.0c have problems. I wrote sony and they say they have duplicated the problem in house and will most likely release an update. But they won’t say when or if they really will.

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=612537&Replies=94

So what do I do. I went back to sony vegas 8.0b. It renders avchd at 1440×1080 just fine without crashing. I then have successfully been making bluray projects with dvd architect 5.0. They play fine in my blu-ray player. Another nice feature is that I can burn bluray to dvd-r’s and still play hd video on my blu-ray player. The dvd-r only hold 30 minutes of hd footage but this serves me fine since I mostly have home movies that are short. Plus they are much cheaper than bd-r’s. To do this I followed the instructions on this forum. Hope this helps and let me know if you have more questions.

https://camcorderinfo.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=140970

Good luck

Hari

[Stan Hearle]

Thanks Hari,

I will try that after I have selected some HD downloaded through the software that came with the camera (Sony) as opposed to the new import from 8.0d. If that doesnt work I will do what you suggest.

Thanks

Stan

[Tim Neary]

Interesting as after some weeks of frustration with the support etc from the principle i have also gone back to V8b as *c simply failes to produce on JVC 720p

[Mike Hall]

I have has the same issues with 8.0c but the problem might be caused in another area. I recently bought a quad processor 6600. Prior to installing this 8.0c was mostly stable and AVCHD at 1920 x 1080i 50Hz was OK and faster on preview that 8.0b, with my old dual core 6600.

After the quad processor was installed everything changed, Vegas started crashing when using AVCHD files. I have reverted back to 8.0b with the quad processor and Vegas is more stable. I have yet to change back to my old two core processor and reload 8.0c.

This is why, many people including Sony, may not not seen the problems with 8.0c. In MHO it has not been fully tested with quad core processing. It is possible a quad core may not give any benefits over a dual core anyway, but that’s a new subject..

[John Welsh]

Gotta weigh in here due to some similarities… and differences that may help us solve this. I suspect the problem has to do with how Vegas handles AVCHD from non-Sony cams (though I couldn’t give you a technical explanation as to why).

Here’s my story: I have a Sony HDR-SR12 AVCHD cam that I got for a trip to Kenya last August (FANTASTIC piece of equipment, small and unobtrusive, dependable, stable, performed flawlessly in the Kenyan outback despite lots of rough-and-tumble). Came back and edited 1,000+ files on an Intel high-end mobo (S975Xbx2), Q6600 Quad core (not overclocked), 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon dual-DVI-I board, running XP Pro x64 (the 64-bit version of XP). All current drivers.

Ingested footage, no problem. Sony’s Picture Motion Browser has been egged by some, but it was flawless. Edited all this mostly on Vegas Pro 8.1 (their 64-bit version) but also on 8c. No probs with crashing to speak of UNTIL I tried to add 4 additional gigs of memory (to total 8GB), so I could take full advantage of XP Pro x64’s ability to actually use 8GB, which also gives me more RAM for the “dynamic RAM preview” feature, etc. Then the problems started!

My system would crash anywhere from just after I logged in, to several minutes after logging in. The crashes didn’t coincide consistently with any action, mouse movement,keyboard stroke, or which version of VPro I was using. Every crash was the same: Both screens go black (never a BSOD), can only full reboot (CNTL-ALT-DEL does nothing). The memory added is the same part # as the original 4GB of Patriot memory. I even tried 8GB of Kingston RAM, same problem. And I never even got around to increasing the dynamic preview RAM setting, either. Go back to 4GB RAM, everything’s stable as a rock.

Perhaps this clouds the issue, but I’m hoping there are some clues here that someone smarter and more experienced than myself may be able to discern. Short of that, apologies for the long post.

–John

[Mel Perez]

i apologize if this is a little off the topic, but does anyone know where i can update my version 8.0a to 8.0b? I only see 8.0c available on Sony’s website which i am not interested in , and can’t afford Pro9 at the moment. Emailed Sony with this question however received no response. Help anyone please?…Thanks

[Mike Kujbida]

Mel, I don’t know why you wouldn’t want 8.0c for all the bug fixes but, since you don’t, you can find 8.0b in the Sony Software Archive (at the bottom of the page).

[Mel Perez]

thanks Mike..have read some conflicting info in some of the forums and am a little confused.I have a few projects that need completing and didn’t want additional problems. Right now what i have is working,however if you recommend 8.0c i’ll update to that once they’re done.