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Vegas 9 to include 64bit
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You are one of the fortunate ones then who has not had the problems that many have had. I used version 4-5 then went right to 8 and the problems ensued. So that being said I should have clarified that I was only referring to version 8. I had many projects that I had to go back and work on in a prior version because 8 would crash. I use dedicated machines that do not run anything else except Sony. The prior versions are more stable the current is not. This could be due to the 32 point system or just bad programming. The software builders agree and have acknowledged the shortcomings of the illegal memory allocations and the PF usage. They are working on it. For those who have experienced the crash for no explicable reason and also no error message they understand. Like I said it is an overall good program however it is not stable. With all the hardware, driver and software issues you might just be fortunate to not ever have a conflict. I appreciate your response and it appears we have similar setups, mine however have not been problem free.
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Just curious. What OS are you running under? I have had relatively few problems running Vista 64. (4 gig ram)
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Maybe our Cow Vegas leaders could rig up an online Vegas users survey. What version are you currently running? What OS? Are you crashing frequently (define this), etc.
John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
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Hello, I’m a Vegas leader and have been using Vegas since Vegas was audio only, Vegas 3 started using video. I’ve used FCP, Avid media composer, Premier and Vegas. I can’t recall when it’s crashed on me and I use HDV all the time. I have read of problems with very large HDV projects with render problems on quad cores though. Everytime I go back to Avid or FCP I run into things I cant do that Vegas has been doing for years. If Vegas had a good chromakey plugin, I would rarely need any other program, even audio as vegas is great for that too. Most other NLE’s expect you to export audio to protools or another audio editor. I still have to use After Effects or Ultra for Chromakeying and adding shadows. I wish Keylight worked in Vegas.
All this aside, Lets see how reliable Vegas is for others.IF you’re experiencing crashes with Vegas, please post it here along with OS versions, Vegas versions, Direct X versions ECT.
A good way to find out almost every detail your on hardware and software is to click start, run, type DXDIAG and you should be able to find anything you need there. Hope this helps. -
All my machines are running XP Pro and they all have different configs. But none are less then dual core 3.2 and at minimum 2 gigs ram with 236 on the video cards. We also use 3 hard drives for each system. One runs the software, one the stores the media and the third is used for rendering. With so many hardware, driver and software configurations it is very hard for any software company to discover bugs. Some are just not evident in certain systems.
There are two different types of crashes, the first just drops out of the program for no apparent reason and does not record and error message nor does the program record that it was exited improperly. On restart you do not get prompted if you wish to utilize the autosave feature. The other is of course the crash with the error message. I have sent all of those to Sony to no avail. Again it does not do it very frequently but it does do it. Thanks for all the suggestions I do appreciate it. I am fairly well versed in computer problems and functions. This is another one of those things we all learn to work around. -
I bought a new laptop which was meant to be set-up as 64-bit but came with Vista 32-bit so I am sending it back for 64-bit, the supplier has to do it, all in preparation for Vegas Pro in 64-bit.
I’ll cast my vote for the stability of Vegas, especially vs Premiere.
People often tool around with their computers thinking they are ‘customising’ or ‘optimising’ them and they often have them so full of junk it’s no wonder they crash.
I keep my editing computers lean and mean with all sounds, shutdowns/hibernates/screen savers turned off.
The OS, no bloatware, and minimal software, Microsoft Word, Photoshop CS2, Canon DPP and RAW capture/viewer software, Avast, Spybot and that’s about it. And, the editing comp is never online.
It’s a temple not a junkyard.
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We have been running Vegas 8 on two computers for months with no problems. it is very stable. We are running it on Windows XP Pro with all the latest updates including SP3. Speaking from experience with ONE big problem check to see what anti virus software you are running on the machines that you are having problems with. We are using SPYBOT and AVG. We use to use McAfee and our machines were way too sluggish and way to unstable. We would get about 81% through a render and the render would just stop dead. Not sure what was happening but the anti virus software was interfering with the render after a certain point. It took me a couple of days to get the McAfee completely off my machine and I had to do some registry editing to get all its tentacles out of the registry. Also SATA drives are the best you can use for editing and rendering and we have been using the new SEAGATE drives with no problems. FWIW
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I have 36 instances of Vegas 8b in our School district, three at home, and probably 15 ‘users’ whom I advise. They are quad core, dual core, Intel & AMD, and several laptops. I have run into so few problems I have a hard time remembering what they were. I have had some HD QT files lock the quad cores, but when converted to m2t or other mpg based file formats those issues went away. So do I blame Vegas, Apple, or the machine/app that created the mov files? Vegas is the MOST STABLE EDITOR, is is a rock here.
20 of my editors are in a High School Video Editing lab, most of thes rest are scattered throughout the Cable channel’s production suite or the district at large and if these off the shelf state contract computers can remain stable with the gunk and misuse the these students toss at them, it is stable!
Gary
“Better, Faster, Cheaper … Pick Two!”
Gary R. Brown, SCVE
Video Systems Engineer
Portsmouth Public Schools
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Steve,
You are one of the lucky if you haven’t experienced Vegas crashing. I have used Vegas since 4.0 and use to love this app. But since 7 and HDV it seems to be getting more unstable.
I rendered some 1440 x 1080 p clips in 9.0c and the clips were full of some weird artifacts that looked like interlacing. Tech support charged me $29.00 for the support call and after a week replied “canot replicate the problem.” I switched to version 8.0 and with the exact settings the render came out fine…but version 8 would not capture. So I had to capture in 9 and edit in 8. Every single time I edit I spend hours trying to fix “technical” issues when I should be focused on creativity. Vegas crashes every single time I edit.Sony HVR-V1U, Sony FX1, Canon XH-A1, Red Rock Micro 2, Dell i7 (8gb memory) Project settings 1440 x 1080 p, shot at 24p.
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Vegas crashes all of the time, every time. Since version 7 and HDV it has been buggy.
Windows Vista 64, Vegas 9.0c, Sony HVr-V1u, Red Rock Micro M2. Dell PC i7 processor, 8 mb memory. All background apps turned off.Chris
https://www.dogbytefilms.ent
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