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Vegas Pro 9 Error & Vegas 7 Crashes w/HD footage
I’m having problems editing HD footage with both Vegas Pro 9 and 7. I’m at a complete loss as to what’s wrong. I have no idea where to begin to figure out what the problem is.
Here is a visual representation of the error:
It’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. On the left is Vegas 7, and on the right is Vegas 9. Same files but in Vegas 9, the sound in the right(?)/upper channel is missing for part of the track. (The reason the audio is Mono for part of the file, is because I used a wired mic, plugged directly into the Canon HV30.)
Not only is the waveform missing (because I don’t care about that), but the actual audio during that portion, is missing in Vegas 9.
It is not missing in the original file, as can be seen in Vegas 7.
Just to make things even stranger, when I click cancel when opening the project, to prevent the waveforms from building in Vegas 9, the audio remains in the project. That seems fine, but I’m afraid to continue in such an unstable environment.
Things were working just fine when I tried to edit in Vegas 7, but I started having problems. It started with an error about the Undo Buffer having problems. I closed, and saved the project as something else, but upon reopening I saw a red thumbnail, and moments of black instead of video, before the program crashed. Now I open the project, and a few minutes into editing the entire program seizes up.
I know there’s not much here to go on, but has anyone else had any problems like this? I thought it might be because I’m using HD footage, but I’ve edited HD before with no problems at all. In fact, the waveforms of my previous HD project loaded much faster than they do now.
Thanks for any help. I plan on doing a few things to figure this out, but if any of this rings a bell for someone…
Michael M.
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Here’s some info on the files I’m using:Video: 29.970 fps interlaced, 1440x1080x32, MPEG-2
Audio: 48,000 Hz, Stereo, MPEG Layer 2Plug-In Name: m2tsplug.dll
Plug-In Format: Sony M2TS -
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To say the issue is solved, is probably an overstatement, but at least I identified what the problem was.
If you haven’t seen the picture in my previous post, it’s one of the strangest errors I’ve ever come across, and hope to ever come across.
https://www.twitpic.com/6p9ww/full
From crashing, to missing sound, to sudden slow motion playback, without synced audio… Weird stuff happened.
The problem was not in the software, or my hardware. Instead the problem was with the file; in the file.
I found that Vegas 7 crashed at the same point, when playing a certain file. So… while playing that file in Vegas 9, I noticed a small glitch there in the video & audio. (little squares that appear for a moment; I’m sure many of you know what I’m talking about) That told me, that for some reason, the video, or file was corrupt in some way, at different points in the file.
This also tells me that, for some reason, Vegas 7, and Vegas 9, both handle these files differently; this is obvious in the picture above.
Anyway, I managed to work through this issue, by saving often, and when I came across the parts of the file that made Vegas 7 crash, I reopened, and deleted that portion of video and audio (without letting the playhead cross over the corrupted portions of video).
I also managed to re-render some of the files while having the corrupted files opened on another computer, in Vegas 9, but this did not work in all cases.
All in all, a very strange error, that is extremely frustrating to deal with. As far as possible causes? Perhaps, I taped over preexisting HD footage on the DV Tape without meaning too. Perhaps the import/digitization process had problems. No idea. Sadly, I’m in MD, and the tapes are in CA.
I’ve had similar glitches with DV footage in the past, but it never caused the editing program to react like this. Perhaps the glitches were more severe this time, or perhaps it’s because the glitches are in footage that is HD.
I’m glad I got it sorted though, and I just wanted to post a follow up on the problem, for anyone’s future reference.
Michael M.
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