[Angelo Mike]

Gaaaaaaaah.

Edit: Ok.

[Angelo Mike]

[Stephen Mann] “This is why I am extremely reluctant to help anyone to fix their PC. The program works just fine on hundreds of other users’ PC’s, but it doesn’t work in mine, so it must be a bug in the software.

Did you turn off GPU support in “Preferences”?
Look at the Windows Updates – are there any that failed?

Not sure what you mean by failed, but I don’t think so.

I have one workstation with the GT450 video card, and its’ overall reliability – not just Vegas – was pathetic. Just a thought.

Did you ever have an ATI video card installed? If yes, then it’s drivers could be still around and interfering with your nVidia drivers.

I used to, yes. The last time I had that was in Oct of 2011 or so (when I realized that, even though my card was listed as supported by Sony, I couldn’t get it to utilize GPU acceleration with it), and Vegas has worked mostly fine in the last two years. I’ll see if there are any drivers from it, though.

Use the Windows Reliability viewer (start “Reliability”) to look at any specific incidents for a clue.

Also, download and install Version 12 in the demo mode. See if that fixes your immediate problem.

Last, you didn’t install any Codec Packs, did you?”

No codec packs.

[Angelo Mike]

What worked for me was copying and pasting everything into a new project. You’ll have to redo all the track level plugins, but it’s the only thing that works after trying to edit at two changes at a time before my project crashed, and then having it crash on render. I’m rendering to a DVD as well.

At least, this worked on Vegas 11. Maybe Sony had the foresight to remove this workaround on Vegas 12.

[Angelo Mike]

I copied and pasted the entire project into a new project, and it mostly works fine now. No crashes. Just a few bugs with playback like flickering black occasionally.

Just treat Vegas like it can’t be trusted, ever, and it may work. I should be sleeping right now.

[Angelo Mike]

Yes, I regularly get Microsoft updates. I don’t make system restore points, though.

And now I can’t even render that longer video without Vegas crashing in seconds. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I sent a message to Sony (in addition to several dozen crash reports), but that won’t do me any good when they get back to me in a month.

I would try upgrading to 12, but I can’t afford it right now, and I need to get this video done today. I could have had it done 10 times over by now if it wasn’t for all these crashes.

[Angelo Mike]

I haven’t even upgraded to Vegas 12. I don’t know if I should at this point or if I should just get Vegas 13 (while keeping Vegas 11 and 10, of course, while Sony works the bugs out).

This is driving me insane. I should have been done everything early last night. Vegas crashed when I fell asleep and was rendering my 6:30 video, so now I have to try that again. Then I’m going to try to ro edit everything for the DVD and render that, deliver it to my client, and smash my face through a window.

[Angelo Mike]

I turned off GPU acceleration while editing, but didn’t while rendering. I just did, and rendering’s pretty slow, but it’s at least working. I’m on track to render a 6:30 clip for 45 minutes.

[Angelo Mike]

[Stephen Mann] “In virtually every case, an “unmanaged exception” is a driver problem. Finding which driver is causing the problem is a tedious and frustrating process.
Did the system ever work properly? Can you do a system restore to that date?
Have you installed any hardware or software lately?
Is your PC overclocked? Overclocking is generally bad for video editing.
Is your GPU overclocked? (I just recently discovered that some Geforce cards are overclocked from the factory. If you have “OC” in the product name, beware).”

System worked properly (after the initial few weeks/months of bugs) since 2011. Unfortunately I still don’t do regular system restores. Haven’t installed any hardware or software, and my CPU isn’t overclocked. I have a GeForce GTS 450, which I don’t believe is overclocked from the factory. But I still have this problem with GPU acceleration off.

I managed to finish one stage of editing, and now rendering is completely shot. Either it crashes and I get the error report immeditaely, or it just endlessly renders to black at 1%.

[Angelo Mike]

I turned off GPU acceleration and am reducing Dynamic RAM Preview to 100. It makes projects not crash for another 30 or 60 seconds, which is letting me get some work done. But this is ridiculous. Playback causes crashes. Rendering causes crashes. It’s taken me about five hours to do work that should have taken me twenty minutes.

Edit: Oh, great. It’s also causing huge Flash transitions where I didn’t put any.

[Angelo Mike]

I clean reinstalled Vegas, deleting everything in the registry. Still no improvement.