Vegas Error

[Joe Mantaratz]

Here is what I found in another forum regarding your issue. I suspected it either the memory or the media. Usually it is a hardware issue.

The only time I saw a red frame while using Vegas 8 is when I borrowed a less than optimum computer to edit while my regular system was temporarily down because of a bad ram stick.

The red frames did not crash Vegas though and were only brief.

My regular editing system is back up and running and I did an edit of two cams with m2t files and no red frames and no problems.

I noticed that since Vegas 7, Vegas has become ram intensive when it comes to m2t files. A system that uses slower ram seems to have problems such as the red and even the black frames. That borrowed system also had the black frame problem as well though not anywhere near as bad as the old and slow Pentium 4 system had.

The borrowed system does not have the best ram and ram timings.

So red frames are caused by either a corrupt file and/or hardware that is not up to par. This is not a Vegas 8 bug.

M2t editing requires a better system than SD did. If using a lesser system then it is best to use an intermediate file instead of an m2t file.

Vegas 6 didn’t have this problem because it didn’t use ram to optimize playback of m2t files like vegas 7 and up does. But then playback of m2t files on Vegas 6 was terrible on a slow system.

Hope this sheds some light….

[Alex Kopco]

Thanks for the quick reply. I am running a 2.4 ghz quad core with 4 gigs of ram…dunno how in the world my computer would be sub-par, and I am still getting the error even after restarting twice and re-locating the files. Don’t know what else to do 🙁

[Joe Mantaratz]

Memory can certainly fail at any time as can any other hardware. I downloaded a free memory check program that runs on start up. Was this something that just happened? Try inserting a couple of the offending files in a new project and see if that helps. If it does then you know you have a hardware issue. I worked on a project where it would crash the program every time I attempted to import mpeg2 files. What I found was that I could import them in smaller amounts and it was ok. The red frame is either memory or original media corrupt. Can you reimport some of those files to a new project and test it there? You need to test the basics first to be sure. I’ve said this a lot in my posts recently but it is worth repeating again. It is paramount that you have a clean boot with no services running, no internet, spyware or virus software running on load up. They stay resident and eat up memory and can cause all kinds of problems. At the very least deactivate them after boot if you do not know how to create a clean boot.
Hope something helps
John