[Israel Prophitt]

Thank you. I read that too, but assumed it meant 64-bit Vista (not compatible, but will work kinda thing). I didn’t think about it meaning 64-bit Vegas. 🙂 It this because DivX doesn’t have a 64-bit DLL or because Vegas can’t access 32-bit DLLs?

Thanks again sir.

Israel

[Israel Prophitt]

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[Israel Prophitt]

I have Vegas 6.0D, Vegas 8.0c and 8.1(x64) installed on my computer(I am in transition 🙂 ). I am trying out the DivX codec6.8.5 (trial).

Under “Render As” I select AVI, then click the “custom …” button. In the “Video Format” drop down, I can select “DivX® 6.8.5 Codec (4Logical CPUs)” inside Vegas 6.0D, and Vegas 8.0C, but NOT Vegas 8.1.

Is there something I’m not doing right?

Israel

[Israel Prophitt]

I do have the latest version. 8.0c Build 260

I believe I have found the real issue at hand … the resizing issue only led me to find the REAL issue. After starting a new project, importing NEW M2T files, converting them to AVI intermediate files, and importing them into the project, I found it worked WHETHER VEGAS WAS MAXIMIZED OR NOT. Hmmm…

What’s the difference …? I believe it may have to do with how the clips were imported. My test follows:

TEST
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I found a video clip (AVI HDV 1080i intermediate) that was originally imported from the camera (a few months ago) with HDVSplit and converted to the AVI intermediate with Vegas 6.

Created a TEST project file in Vegas 8.

Clicked >File>Import Media… Selected the file mentioned above. Vegas inmported the file. It worked. But when I changed the Project media View from list to Thumbnail … when Vegas tried to create a thumbnail it crashed immediately. When I restarted vegas, changed the view back to List, re-imported the clip (working so far) then dragged the clip onto the timeline … it crashed.

I opened the original clip into Vegas 6 and Clicked >File>Render As … Chose the AVI template (HDV 1080-60i intermediate). Named the file “convertedAVI.avi”

I imported the “convertedAVI.avi” to Vegas 8 … and it worked no problems. When I imported the original file it crashed. Any time Vegas came into contact with one of these files that were imported previously it would crash. My earlier estimation that it was the window re-sizing probably was incorrect though probably related in some way.

Something to try … start Vegas 8 with no project open (setting to not automatically start project on start can be found in preferences). Create a new TEST project. Add media that you think might keep crashing vegas to see if it crashes…

Then import some new media fresh from your video camera (using vegas 8), import that media and see if it causes Vegas to crash. It worked for me.

I haven’t figured out WHY it does this … the original clip and the “converted” clip seem to be identical (file properties, etc). Maybee this info will help someone else get closer to a solution.

I will either have to go back to vegas 6 and “convert” all my old clips or recapture them in Vegas 8 to be able use them with vegas 8.

DryBones

[Israel Prophitt]

UPDATE … It also crashes when it is restored down … but only when I try to resize the window past a certain point.

I did some testing using a screen shot program (to measure screen size) and found that I can resize horizontally as wide as I want (I have three screens), but I can increase the window size no more than 848 pixels vertically. Everytime it crashes! (Not when there isn’t a project loaded, but when the project gets loaded is when it chrashes).

[Israel Prophitt]

Thanks anyway … It appears there is no trial version of 8.1 available.

Israel

[Israel Prophitt]

I have searched for the trial of Vegas 8.1 (64 bit) to no avail. I can download 8.0c trial (32 bit), and the 8.1 update … but no trial edition of 8.1. The 8.1 installs, but asks for a key instead of letting me choose to run in trial mode. Is there a 8.1 trial or trial key? Thanks.

Israel