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Jonathan Harris
October 23, 2009 at 9:38 am in reply to: KERNELBASE.dll crashes Vegas 9.0b on every render

I have also tried saving as a new copy, completely wiping the timeline, and putting one bit of video, on it’s own, on the timeline. It still crashes.

So finally, I try an experiment – I open a second copy of Vegas, select all on the timeline, copy, and paste into this new project. Renders perfectly, not a single problem!

I only have 30 files spread across 4 media bins, all in the same format, all from the same source. I’m not going to remove them one by one, quicker just to start again.

But what this shows is that there is a problem with the Vegas project file. Which is why I attached it to my ticket to Sony! I was hoping they could diagnose the error in the project file, but instead, of course, they blame the system.

Well, the problem is solved, I hope this helps others!
Jonathan Harris
October 21, 2009 at 4:36 pm in reply to: KERNELBASE.dll crashes Vegas 9.0b on every render

Done some more research:

I’ve: run memtest (it passes).
Run sfc and all system files have integrity.
I’ve scanned all the drives, all pass.
I’ve checked permissions on all the files.
I’ve removed and re-installed codecs.
I’ve re-installed Vegas.
I’ve tried it in a new user profile.
I’ve even gone as far as to install a separate 32 bit copy of windows and Vegas (with updates).
Still, it crashes with the same error in this brand new copy of windows!

I do recall seeing a message like “undo buffer has crashed, please save to new project and restart” which I did. But I could still carry on building the project OK. I can play the project right through on the timeline without problems.

My system has all the correct and latest drivers for sound, video, motherboard etc. I disabled every single other running application.
I also tried it with and without readyboost and/or swap file enabled.
I have 4Gb of RAM, this is the first time this has happened.

I really don’t want to start the project again. It’s not huge, but I’ve got everything in the right media bins now.
Jonathan Harris
October 21, 2009 at 2:06 pm in reply to: KERNELBASE.dll crashes Vegas 9.0b on every render

I just remembered – I tried exporting as wmv. This one particular codec doesn’t crash, but it doesn’t go anywhere.

I cancelled after it had climbed to an estimated 12 hours to render 1 minute of plain movie with one transition! (would be 20 seconds max before)
Jonathan Harris
October 21, 2009 at 2:05 pm in reply to: KERNELBASE.dll crashes Vegas 9.0b on every render

Tried re-installing, checking codecs and everything, now getting a different error. I wondered if it might be permissions, so I tried to make all the files involved (vegas, temp files, work files, video, audio etc) read/write for me as a user, but it says “access denied”. I guess I need to run explorer as admin? How do I do that, as I’m logged in as an admin anyway?

Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0
Version 9.0b (Build 92)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) WRITE:0x100 IP:0x74E0D80D
In Module ‘sony4vem.dll’ at Address 0x74B30000 + 0x2DD80D
Thread: ProgMan ID=0xFC Stack=0x691E000-0x6920000
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0023 EIP=74e0d80d EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=002b ESP=0691e3a4 EBP=0691e3e8
ECX=00000000 DS=002b ESI=00000000 FS=0053
EDX=00000000 ES=002b EDI=0089b210 GS=002b
Bytes at CS:EIP:
74E0D80D: 66 89 8C 72 00 01 00 00 f..r….
74E0D815: 66 89 8C 72 02 01 00 00 f..r….
Stack Dump:
0691E3A4: 7B450D58 7B130000 + 320D58
0691E3A8: 00000002
0691E3AC: 00000000
0691E3B0: 00000048
0691E3B4: 7B450E98 7B130000 + 320E98
0691E3B8: 00000000
0691E3BC: 0000002F
0691E3C0: 00000050
0691E3C4: 00000EB0
0691E3C8: 66E730C0 66E70000 + 30C0
0691E3CC: 00000008
0691E3D0: 66E75FB0 66E70000 + 5FB0
0691E3D4: 7B4276E0 7B130000 + 2F76E0
0691E3D8: 0691E3A4 06820000 + FE3A4
0691E3DC: 0691E470 06820000 + FE470
0691E3E0: 74E17458 74B30000 + 2E7458 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E3EC: 74E0B294 74B30000 + 2DB294 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E3FC: 77C820E0 77B80000 + 1020E0 (ntdll.dll)
> 0691E41C: 74B3B59A 74B30000 + B59A (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E438: 77BB3C20 77B80000 + 33C20 (ntdll.dll)
> 0691E44C: 74BB993F 74B30000 + 8993F (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E474: 74E16D20 74B30000 + 2E6D20 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E480: 74E08AF5 74B30000 + 2D8AF5 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E488: 74BB8F45 74B30000 + 88F45 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E498: 77BB3C20 77B80000 + 33C20 (ntdll.dll)
> 0691E4AC: 74DCD4D9 74B30000 + 29D4D9 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E510: 74BD74BC 74B30000 + A74BC (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E530: 74E13E8C 74B30000 + 2E3E8C (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E53C: 74BB79E8 74B30000 + 879E8 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E550: 74B3B59A 74B30000 + B59A (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E564: 01312D00 00400000 + F12D00 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
0691E568: 66E76980 66E70000 + 6980
0691E56C: 0691E584 06820000 + FE584
0691E570: 7397FD60 73880000 + FFD60
0691E574: 00000004
> 0691E58C: 74BD2216 74B30000 + A2216 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E5C0: 74E13F9E 74B30000 + 2E3F9E (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E5CC: 74BB736A 74B30000 + 8736A (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E5D0: 74BBE66D 74B30000 + 8E66D (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E614: 74BBE954 74B30000 + 8E954 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E620: 74B84E62 74B30000 + 54E62 (sony4vem.dll)
> 0691E638: 715843D4 71580000 + 43D4 (mp4plug2.dll)
> 0691E6A0: 01312D00 00400000 + F12D00 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
0691E6A4: FFFFFFFF
0691E6A8: FFFFFFFF
0691E6AC: 00000000
0691E6B0: 00000000
> 0691E6B8: 01312D00 00400000 + F12D00 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
0691E6BC: 00000001
0691E6C0: 00000000
0691E6C4: 00000001
0691E6C8: FFFFFFFF
> 0691EED0: 00400010 00400000 + 10 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
0691EED4: 00000000
0691EED8: 00000000
0691EEDC: 00000000
0691EEE0: 00000000
> 0691F108: 77BADE82 77B80000 + 2DE82 (ntdll.dll)
> 0691F10C: 72AE4D83 72AE0000 + 4D83 (MSVCR80.dll)
> 0691F12C: 7159ADF2 71580000 + 1ADF2 (mp4plug2.dll)
> 0691F134: 7158447B 71580000 + 447B (mp4plug2.dll)
> 0691F150: 7158BEE1 71580000 + BEE1 (mp4plug2.dll)
> 0691F170: 72B30B6B 72AE0000 + 50B6B (MSVCR80.dll)
> 0691F1D0: 01312D00 00400000 + F12D00 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
> 0691F1D4: 01312D00 00400000 + F12D00 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
– – –
0691FFF0: 00000000
0691FFF4: 005282F0 00400000 + 1282F0 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
0691FFF8: 00AF3D58 00400000 + 6F3D58 (VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe)
0691FFFC: 00000000
Jonathan Harris
October 20, 2009 at 6:47 pm in reply to: KERNELBASE.dll crashes Vegas 9.0b on every render

TSR?

I did try shutting down as many processes as possible.
Jonathan Harris
June 27, 2009 at 4:15 pm in reply to: Vegas Platinum 9.0b optimal 1280x720p h.264 render profile?

Apologies – two things I didn’t make clear.

I meant the output format which is 1280×720, not the DV-avi!

Also, xvid4psp is a bit of a misnomer, it actually does conversion from anything to anything else. Is there any way of making a new profile? For example, from looking in the profiles folder, I know this makes an excellent file:

video codec:
x264

video cli:
–crf 21 –level 4.1 –ref 3 –mixed-refs –filter -2,-1 –bframes 3 –b-pyramid –weightb –8x8dct –trellis 2 –no-fast-pskip –no-dct-decimate –analyse all –subme 7 –me umh
Jonathan Harris
June 21, 2009 at 9:06 pm in reply to: New PC for HD editing in Vegas

Thanks for the info, John, especially about CUDA. I’d not really heard about it before, but it sounds like it doesn’t apply to me!

FWIW, I’ve already been through the whole “my codec’s better than yours” thing with a friend. To be honest, I can live in a world of weird codecs, because he started off trying to prove how much superior his £800 Sony HD camcorder was (which is AVCHD) and despite his “it must be your monitor/the weather/something” protestations, we couldn’t actually tell the difference, and the fact is my camcorder was £550 cheaper than his and does 50fps and timelapse with 10x optical zoom (which is precisely what I wanted) whereas his…doesn’t!

So, my only “sticking point” was the grunt needed to edit. From the info on chipsets you’ve given me, I’d looking at under £450 for a complete new PC. So all in all it still works out better for me (if it really works!). I get a camera AND a replacement for my ageing PC for the same price as my mate’s Sony. Now who’s smug?! 🙂

Anyway, thanks for the help on that.
Jonathan Harris
June 21, 2009 at 1:07 pm in reply to: New PC for HD editing in Vegas

I bought a Samsung HMX-H100P 1920x1080i / 720p full HD camcorder and a copy of Vegas Pro 9, both of which I’ve wanted for ages, but could only afford when they were nearly half price. The camcorder is great and puts out a really good h.264 compressed image.

Now I got a problem. I thought my Medion PC with an Intel 3Ghz P4 hyperthreading thingummy with 3.25Gb RAM visible to WinXP would be fine, even though it’s 5 years old.

Wrong! It will JUST play the straight 1080x720p, forget about 1920, and when editing, each frame takes several seconds to render in Vegas! Normal avi edits fine.

I’m not prepared to encode everything to avi first, and I’m not exactly swimming around in cash. I’ve been looking at PCs for days and they’re all specced for gaming and stuff. I don’t do that.
From what I’ve read on the Vegas forums, it doesn’t use the graphics card to do the rendering work, which was my first idea so I don’t need terabytes of memory that gaming cards have either.

What I could really do with is to find a system/chipset/whatever that could handle h.264 mp4 with ease. I don’t even need on with an OS as people are getting good results with Windows 7 so that’ll do me for the next 9 months at least.

I don’t mind if it’s a prebuild, but it’s been 6 years since I built anything myself as it usually seems to work out better to get someone to do it.

My budget is £500 or less and I’m in the UK. I suppose the question would be:
AMD or Intel? Dual or Quad Core? etc – just anything to get the h.264 playing/editing properly!

People are now also telling me that I should have got a CUDA-aware editing programe but from this thread https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/892369 it looks like Vegas isn’t. Is this going to be a big problem for me?

Thanks