[David Parry]

Hi, Maybe you can help me.

I purchased Sony Vegas Platinum Pro 9 last year after giving up completely on Adobe Premiere Elements which crashed and froze after anything longer than 5 minutes. I have successfully made 3 short DVD’s which I was happy with – the longest being 25 minutes but I am starting to have problems with my latest home movie project after only 20 minutes.

The most recent video files simply go off-line (it won’t open the project unless you agree that is off-line) and that’s an end to it. Other times it tells you there is an ‘exception error’, whatever that is, and it simply closes up.

I have run a registry cleaner across the system and even then, when I open it up again, it will be different files it refuses to recognize. I am really gutted because I was only 2 files from completion.

I admit that editing HD mpeg4 files is bound to be difficult, but I have a quad core 4GHZ machine with 4GB of ram and this machine was bought purposely to edit camcorder movies.