[Jake Zander]

I know this thread is old, but I just ran in to this problem and google led me here, so I’ll post what I found in case anyone else ends up here:

Try this tool by Convergent Design that simply changes the .MOV container to an .MXF container:
https://www.convergent-design.com/Products/nanoFlash/Downloads.aspx (it’s called “File Converter”).
It worked for me.

[Jake Zander]

I was having the same problem, trying to use .mov files from a JVC camera. They were xdcam video wrapped in a quicktime container and wouldn’t play on Windows or open in Vegas.

Then through another forum I found this tool by Convergent Design that simply changes the .MOV container to an .MXF container:
https://www.convergent-design.com/Products/nanoFlash/Downloads.aspx (it’s called “File Converter”).
The files now open in Vegas.

[Jake Zander]

(Ok well apparently my last post never went through because I linked to a competing website. *rolls eyes* Time to retype the whole thing…)

My vegas was crashing a lot with one of my projects and I figured out 3 solutions:

1. Download CFF Explorer to enable the switch in the vegas exe file that allows it to access more than 2GB of memory.

Here‘s instructions (make backups first):

-Run CFF explorer and click File -> Open file. Navigate to c:Program Files (x86)SonyVegas Pro 9.0 (or any other incarnation you’ve got installed).

-In the Vegas folder, open vegas90.exe. In the column on the left, click on File Header under Nt Headers. Now look in the left column, but left corner, and click the tab marked Click Here.

-In the pop-up menu check App can handle >2gb address space. Click OK.

2. Another thing I found is that the more files I had loaded in “Project Media” in Vegas, the higher the RAM usage was. So another solution is to remove any files you aren’t using from the project.

Make sure you “Remove from Project”, not just remove from current bin. Also be sure not to accidentally “remove from project and delete files” unless you’re absolutely sure you want the files gone from your hard drive.

To make is easier, you can select every file you have in your “Project Media” list, right-click and select “Remove from Project”, and it will warn you for each file that’s still in use on the timeline. (You should probably backup your vegas project beforehand though anyway.)

3. Since both of these solutions are RAM-related, another good solution could be to simply buy more RAM.

If you’re using a 32-bit version of Windows, you can only use about 4GB of RAM, but if you’re on 64-bit the limit is over 100GB. Although supposedly some versions of Windows have (artificial) limits on memory. You can check this link to see if they apply to you (X86 means 32-bit, X64 means 64-bit): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[Jake Zander]

My Vegas crashes all the time as well on Win7 64bit. It’s really annoying. It worked fine forever for me on WinXP, but on this operating system it’s terrible. It seems most likely to crash if I do something too fast, like play, pause, then zoom, or save then play (kind of guessing here). And I’m even using Vegas 9… Oh ya and I’m using the 32bit version of the program because I heard 32bit plugins won’t work in 64bit Vegas.

System:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 2.4ghz
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L
RAM: Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 4gb
Video: XFX Geforce 7900gs 256mb pci-e
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Vegas 9.0e 32bit

[Jake Zander]

Oh, no you don’t need to use the presets, just click on the text to replace it and type in those codes. It’ll work.

[Jake Zander]

It seems Vegas doesn’t work well with xvid, I tried opening an xvid file I had and it also opened dark. Although, if you change the FourCC code in the file (information that says which codec it uses) to divx, Vegas will open it fine.

Download AVI FourCC Changer, then make a backup of your media you are going to be modifying (just a suggestion. or you could just save a text file with the original FourCC codes, to change back later), open AVI FourCC Changer and use it to open the file you want to change, then set the ‘FourCC Description Code’ to divx, and the ‘FourCC Used Codec’ to DX50.