[Drew Veeneman]

For me the New Blue Titler crashing is linked to the New Blue Titler effects pop-up window.

I was about to submit a help ticket to New Blue for a similar problem. New Blue Titler was crashing immediately whenever I tried to put it on the timeline.

I use a multi-monitor setup(using three ATI Radeon 4670s), and I noticed by accident that the crashing was linked to the effects pop-up window. If the pop-up initially appeared on my main editing screen, New Blue Titler then ran fine. If the pop-up appeared/loaded on a alternate monitor… it crashed reliably with the “Vegas has stopped working…” message.

Once the New Blue Titler effects pop-up loads, it can then be happily shuffled off to either alternate monitor… weird, but it works for me.

I thought I’d share this discovery in case it helps others trouble shoot-it…

-Drew Veeneman

http://www.politicalmechanics.us

[Drew Veeneman]

Ok, Vista is reborn!

Whatever it was, it fixed the problem. Vegas is solid again… although still has a hard time finding files on old projects… but that’s nothing new.

That aside, the way I crashed Vegas before was trying to load a pile of TIF images… a frame by frame mask for a some 3D graphics I rendered out of C4D. I’ve since figured out that you can open these frame-by-frame images with that “still images in sequence” box checked. That works much better.

The lesson here is don’t load over a 100 TIF files at once and then try to save your choking .VEG project. Don’t do that…

Time to kick out another podcast this weekend.

-Drew Veeneman

http://www.politicalmechanics.us

[Drew Veeneman]

Nice! I’ll try this before hand when the final backup is done.

Thanks Matt!

-Drew Veeneman

http://www.politicalmechanics.us

[Drew Veeneman]

Do you have Microsoft’s “automatic updates” turned on? It should NOT be. Also do you do daily incremental backups? You SHOULD be!

I don’t have the updates set on automatic, but I approve most of them unless they look evil.

… covered with backups and the restore points. I also like to keep my footage off the main computer c: hard-drive. This makes replacing the OS more convenient.

* In my case there weren’t any updates that happened around the project… I may have improperly closed vegas because I got impatient(it was probably doing an autosave and I got annoyed… or was that when I tried to drop a 100 tif images into the project media box at once). Whatever happened, my system felt like some sort of windows software was rot going on.

… And I agree with you 100% on ditching vista for windows 7. Unfortunately I blew my money cash on lots of pizza and beer… so I’m stuck with it through this month… with some podcasts I want to crank out.

Time to rebirth vista and hack it till it’s fast… I’ll post the results.

-Drew Veeneman

http://www.politicalmechanics.us

[Drew Veeneman]

I just had the same problem today with Vegas 8.1 running on Vista 64.

Whatever happened, Vegas is unstable for me now. It has trouble opening some projects… the project opens at first… slowly and nothing appears on the timeline… then it locks up a minute or two later.

I tried reinstalling Vegas… but the problem came back.

I’ve had Vegas running smoothly on this machine for a couple years now. Anyway, I’m about to try reinstalling the OS now… Vista probably has something to do with this.