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Vegas Has Stopped Working (Possible Solution)
I have been tinkering with Vegas Pro8 to determine why it crashes and give me the DEP error. Everytime I open my project (created with v6), it would crash shortly after loading … everytime. I tried disabling DEP, but it did not fix the issue.
Well, quite by accident, I had the Vegas window NOT maximized (I think it is called restore down). Anyway, I loaded the project and to my suprise … it loaded!! So, I being of scientific mind tried it several times … still working. So I closed the project, maximized the window and re-opened the project … CRASH!!! I did it several times … CRASH CRASH CRASH etc. Then I started Vegas, restored down the window, loaded the project … OPENED! Then I opened the project and maximized Vegas (while the project was open) … CRASH!
It would seem to me that the problem has to do with the MAXIMIZE proceedure of the Vegas Window. Every time the window is maximized (at the start of project load or maximized while project is open) … it crashes.
I one of the Gurus here find this to be ture on other machines maybe they can contact Sony and get it fixed faster than me. I hope it helps.
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UPDATE … It also crashes when it is restored down … but only when I try to resize the window past a certain point.
I did some testing using a screen shot program (to measure screen size) and found that I can resize horizontally as wide as I want (I have three screens), but I can increase the window size no more than 848 pixels vertically. Everytime it crashes! (Not when there isn’t a project loaded, but when the project gets loaded is when it chrashes).
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Are you using the latest version of Vegas 8? If not, get it.
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I do have the latest version. 8.0c Build 260
I believe I have found the real issue at hand … the resizing issue only led me to find the REAL issue. After starting a new project, importing NEW M2T files, converting them to AVI intermediate files, and importing them into the project, I found it worked WHETHER VEGAS WAS MAXIMIZED OR NOT. Hmmm…
What’s the difference …? I believe it may have to do with how the clips were imported. My test follows:
TEST
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I found a video clip (AVI HDV 1080i intermediate) that was originally imported from the camera (a few months ago) with HDVSplit and converted to the AVI intermediate with Vegas 6.Created a TEST project file in Vegas 8.
Clicked >File>Import Media… Selected the file mentioned above. Vegas inmported the file. It worked. But when I changed the Project media View from list to Thumbnail … when Vegas tried to create a thumbnail it crashed immediately. When I restarted vegas, changed the view back to List, re-imported the clip (working so far) then dragged the clip onto the timeline … it crashed.
I opened the original clip into Vegas 6 and Clicked >File>Render As … Chose the AVI template (HDV 1080-60i intermediate). Named the file “convertedAVI.avi”
I imported the “convertedAVI.avi” to Vegas 8 … and it worked no problems. When I imported the original file it crashed. Any time Vegas came into contact with one of these files that were imported previously it would crash. My earlier estimation that it was the window re-sizing probably was incorrect though probably related in some way.
Something to try … start Vegas 8 with no project open (setting to not automatically start project on start can be found in preferences). Create a new TEST project. Add media that you think might keep crashing vegas to see if it crashes…
Then import some new media fresh from your video camera (using vegas 8), import that media and see if it causes Vegas to crash. It worked for me.
I haven’t figured out WHY it does this … the original clip and the “converted” clip seem to be identical (file properties, etc). Maybee this info will help someone else get closer to a solution.
I will either have to go back to vegas 6 and “convert” all my old clips or recapture them in Vegas 8 to be able use them with vegas 8.
DryBones
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UPDATE!
I think this is an issue with v8 and trying to read Cinform AVIs. (v8 does not come with Cineform Intermediate codec like previous versions)
Since I have v6 of Vegas … I made a backup of the cfhd.dll by renaming it (v8 directory). I copied the cfhd.dll file found in the Vegas 6 directory to the Vegas 8 directory. By using the older version of the dll, I can again read my AVIs that I imported in v6. No crashes!
I hope this helps.
Israel
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