Vegas Pro 11 build 521 Crashes Constantly

[Lance Bachelder]

Another tip if you’re gonna batch export – sync up your god AUDIO with the seq. BEFORE batch export and you’ll have useable audio for every clip = great for music videos.

If you have a bunch of seq. on one timeline – just create a REGION around each clip – sync audio for each – then batch export.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Nigel O’neill]

“I have one PC that reliably crashes while running Vegas Pro 11 – if I open the F/X window twice. None of my other PCs do this, so I am looking at that PC’s hardware and drivers for the solution. I do NOT expect SCS to fix my PC.”

Stephen, that’s great if you have the luxury of more than 1 PC… .

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

[Brad Miller]

My 32-bit version of Vegas 11 is useless as it constantly crashes and can’t finish renders. I went back to using Vegas 10 until I build a new computer.

[Stephen Mann]

[Nigel O'Neill] “Stephen, that’s great if you have the luxury of more than 1 PC… .”

Since video is by job, it is a necessity to have more than one PC. I have Pro 10 on an older 4-core HP computer and Pro 11 on my editing computer and a laptop.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Thomas Roell]

[Monte Krause] “*** The only thing I can think of people that would be simple to try, is to keep uninstalling and re-installing the application. After each uninstall, clean your PC’s registry and trash any Vegas Pro 11 leftovers to help insure a clean re-installation. ***”

I do exactly that every time Sony Creative comes up with a new update to SVP 11, and after about 30 mins I give up yet again because it’s still too flaky (and slow in many places) compared to SVP 10e.

My theory is that I simply need to always upgrade to the newest version of SVP n, but really wait till SVP n+1 comes out before I can use SVP n.

[Martin Munthe]

I do all of my video work on a Lenovo Thinkpad w520. It has two military certifications and is the only laptop that is approved by NASA. It’s fitted with 16GB RAM and a workstation GPU (Nvidia Quadro 2000M).

I run Premiere Pro, Edius, Lightworks and several transcoders on it. They all perform rock solid. Vegas Pro 11 64-bit (I refuse to run a 32-bit application in 2012) is by far the buggiest piece of software I’ve EVER run on anything.

After two extremely disappointing experiences with higher end Sony Vaios I switched over to Thinkpad and right now I’m thinking there’s logic to why Sony are struggling to make ends meet. They simply make lousy products.

I don’t see the point installing Vegas on another PC. I have the best laptop in the world right in front of me. I don’t want to install Vegas on one of my lower end PC’s just to check if it maybe is going to work on a lower end GPU.

[Scott Francis]

I have SVP running on 5 computers, and experience crashes on ALL of them! From 2 laptops to 3 workstations they all crash. I make a point to save as often as I can. They use AMD and INTEL chip dual, quad and hexcore processors and some have GPU’s that will do acceleration and some that do not…I refuse to hear someone tell me after countless hours and MANY others experiencing the SAME PROBLEMS, that it is my computer….amazing…

Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Andy Hart]

“You can also put your image sequences in a fresh 1080p project and then export them as XDCAM 422 50Mbps files for editing – works great!”

So is this same conversion a possible solution for robustifying the avchd video that’s crashing during my renders that are heavy on color correction?

If so, could you please let me know if there’s a way to get all my video in the XDCAM format straight off the card/camera flash memory (an alternative to the device explorer route?

If that’s still best, where does one learn about “use (of) scripting to batch export” to achieve a similar result. Thanks.

[Monte Krause]

…I use Photoshop to batch process Image sequences. If that is what you are asking?

Monte Krause
Dallas, TX

[Jeremiah Brown]

I started using Vegas at version 5. Version 6 and 7 were really really solid and I used to think Vegas was way ahead (and I still think it was then). With 8 it started with having to wait for updates in hope for stability. Now, at version 11, I’ve had it! Since Sony has been sticking to their “nested projects” baloney, I delved into Premiere and as rigid as it feels, it hasn’t once crashed on me and GPU acceleration with my 460 is really excellent and lives up to the promises it came with.
Vegas 11 is now at the third update of this release and the first “workaround” you read about when trying to find out what all this crashing is about, is “turn off GPU acceleration”. Cut it out, please! That fixed the crashing with color correction and other fx sliders, but it’s still crashing on a bunch of other occasions.
It’s running on two different machines here, and while the crashing behavior seems to be not quite the same, the extent pretty much is.
We’re not even going into functionality or things that just don’t work (any longer: deinterlace in preview, anyone?).
This is the last project with considerable complexity that I’ll finish with Vegas. Then I’ll pass up a couple of rounds until they get their act together, if they ever will. It’s simply no fun anymore and doesn’t point to the future no how either.

And never forget: “Press escape to exit fullscreen” – you might just see something else. (How ridiculous to show that every time. Give us some playback controls in fullscreen mode instead, to start with some innovation!)

I am sorry, I’m usually not such a grumpy bastard, it’s just that working with this software has lately cost me a lot of nerve, another crash happened, and I just had to do something else, winding up here.

peace and have a good day y’all!