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What Does Sony Vegas Pro 12 Want From Me?
I have grown very tired of the daily crashes and now the crashing every 5 mins while working in SVP12. I’ve take suggestions and tips from many and some seemed to help. Others did not. I have a new up-to-date computer with plenty of power and speed and components. Yet there is something Vegas doe not like.
Why can’t Sony provide a list of software and hardware that it requires to run as advertized for professionals and what NOT to have installed on your computer. Or provide a required shopping list so you can have a computer built that will run Vegas and be stable long enough to actually get work done.
It would be nice to have an actual computer/Vegas guru come into my studio and physically look at my setup, my software and hardware and say, “ah-ha, there’s your problem”.
This is forcing me to look at my friends who run Premiere Pro on PCs and have no problems, or venture into MacLand.
Ken Bennett
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Just be sure to report bugs to Sony. I had a problem for a long time with a certain type of footage that worked fine in previous versions but would cause my project to crash on 11. It took them over a month, but they were finally able to replicate it and fix it.
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As frustrating you currently are about Vegas, Its just simply
could be a hardware/software conflict somewhere or even with
your Media…Its so damn hard to be entirely specific as to what
really is causing your crashes.Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
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The hard reality is hardware and drivers for Windows machines come from all corners of the computer universe, and standardisation is as leaky as a cullender when it comes to driver algorithms and code and hardware design. With so many variables it is certain there will be incompatibilities, something the Apple fraternity are largely spared.
The fact that there are so many Vegas users working away happily without problems would suggest the program is not a disaster but sensitive (unfortunately) to one or more of those code/hardware irregularities.
Your situation is doubly frustrating because you have invested in a high end machine that should be capable of handling everything quickly and faultlessly. My computer is not a match for yours, but I did assemble it myself as I have always done. On the occasion I have had repetitive crashes (with any software) I have resolved the problem by either changing a driver or drivers, or changed part of the hardware. The latter is not easy to do when one does not have a direct replacement to do A/B testing, but luckily I have been able to beg/borrow a similar replacement to use as a test. The point I make is that sometimes expensive hardware can have a weird fault, and it is a b##!*r to find. Once I had a faulty SATA cable that open circuited intermittently with just the slightest vibration. Cost me a lot of time and swear words finding that one.
So, using a bit of logic.. if Vegas is working happily on the bulk of computers… it’s back to the beige box for the answer. Something in that combination of cards and chips is being recalcitrant.
Not much help, I know … but you do have my sympathy, and I would love to know what the cause is… when you find it.Windows 7 Pro64, i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, SSD boot drive, GTX 570 Graphics, Vegas Pro 12
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Yes, all true. Something is “bugging” Vegas. But after reading these 3 replies, my next question or concern is my physical set up. I’ve always worked with RAIDs ever since they come into play way back when I was editing on VideoToaster. Mostly because I was editing with uncompressed video.
On my Vegas setup, I capture/store all my video on two external 9TB RAID-5s. These are connected to the computer via eSATA cables to a RockedRAID card that is plugged into my Sandy-bridge MOBO (which is a single 3.2Mhz CPU, 32GB RAM, WIN 7 64bit). I grab the video clips from these RAIDs and drop onto the timeline and away I go to editing. Is this good or bad? Is Vegas crashing due to communication to and from these RAIDs? When I render I render to an internal drive. Is there pros and cons using RAIDs with Vegas?
THX for any feedback.
Ken Bennett
Video Adventures
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To answer your question about raid and Vegas, why not try editing off a discrete single drive attached to the motherboard. A raid setup should, in theory, work with Vegas – but as I said before not all manufacturers stick to the rules.
Windows 7 Pro64, i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, SSD boot drive, GTX 570 Graphics, Vegas Pro 12
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Did you discover what was causing your crashes? I am interested.
Windows 7 Pro64, i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, SSD boot drive, GTX 570 Graphics, Vegas Pro 12
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