[Jennifer Ortiz]

In case anyone wants to know the outcome, I tried updating video/audio drivers and reinstalling Vegas, but the mpg files still gave me issues. Then I decided to just convert everything over to DV AVI. It takes up a lot more space, but these files aren’t making Vegas go crazy (plus they retain some semblance of quality). Problem solved (I hope). Now I just need to buy a second external drive to fit more video on.

Thanks for the help!

[Jennifer Ortiz]

To test, I made a new file and imported all the mpg imported from the DVD (22.6GB in 85 files), and managed to save it. No dice, still get crashes. But a couple times it gave me a low memory error, so I checked my performance monitor. If I watch it when I open my test.vf, my memory usage goes up, and up, and up, hits about 90%, and Vegas crashes (an error like this pops up):

Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) WRITE:0x0 IP:0x2303B990
In Module ‘mcmpgvdec.dll’ at Address 0x23000000 + 0x3B990
Thread: VideoCache ID=0x19D0 Stack=0x5FFF000-0x6000000

What is going on? Sigh…

[Jennifer Ortiz]

Thanks for the info. I’m having some new problems now.

For my current project I imported video from DVD through Vegas using “Import DVD Camcorder Disc…” and it created mpg files. So far I haven’t stitched them together or modified them in any way (except for renaming). I imported some into my project, and they are much faster and smoother than the video from before — great! I’ve been working on replacing clips from the old video files with the new video files, but currently my project has a mix. The trouble is that as I’ve added more of the new files, Vegas has started hanging and crashing with increasing frequency while editing. At this point it doesn’t last more than a minute. Should I be converting these mpg’s to another format? Or is there something else I should be doing?

[Jennifer Ortiz]

[John Rofrano] “You problem is not Vegas, it’s your source footage. Fix that and things will go a lot smoother.”

I will do that. I ran the Import on a DVD, and that worked. I can’t access vob files that exist on the hard drive that way, but I just as soon start over from the DVD. Is there a good way to join tracks together (ie. make single file for an episode, rather than a separate one for opening, part A, part B, etc)?

Knowing what formats to use (and how to get the most out of compression settings) has been confusing. I haven’t tried DV-AVI before, so I definitely will.

Thank you very much!