[Ken Bennett]

Yeah, Norman, I’ve sent a couple of “questions/requests” to Sony. No reply.

As far as hardware issues, I’m not sure of anything any more. Tomorrow I’ll remove the other RAID card and see if that makes any difference. But here’s the thing, I’ve re-captured a series of clips from the same project with the crashing problem, and I start adding clips to the time line and on clip 008 Vegas crashes. Every time. Same clip. Same type of thing from another series of clips.

So I take this clip that 100% well crash Vegas, put it into my SpeedEDIT time line and if plays fine. No problem. I take the same clip again and put into Premiere CS4’s time line. Plays fine there as well. No crash. In Vegas it will crash Vegas.

Let’s chew on that for a little while and see what people have to say.

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[Ken Bennett]

Jay, I’d like to talk to you more about your experience with Vegas and CS5. When I get time, I’ll post back here.

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[Ken Bennett]

Well that’s true, but I could end up paying Sony another $150 and they still may not help. If they “think” it’s a hardware problem, they may just say “we can’t help… thanks for the money though”. I need some kind of guarantee.

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[Ken Bennett]

BTW, these same clips that are crashing in Vegas are working fine in my other NLE (SpeedEDIT). Hope this helps somebody.

And why does Sony turn their backs on their customers. They take your money and offer no support what so ever. They have never responded to any of my requests.

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[Ken Bennett]

Well, same thing happens in 9.0c. And on the same clip. How can one clip be bad and the next one be OK? Starting to sound like Vegas Pro 9.x has a capture bug.

Still waiting for some more possible answers.

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[Ken Bennett]

OK, where does one find and download 9.0c? It’s not on Sony’s site!

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[Ken Bennett]

Bob- the computer has always had dual Xeon 2.83GHz 8-cores since it was built. Did not see these errors in Vegas 8 or 9a, 9b or 9c.

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[Ken Bennett]

The first problem is I would bring a clip onto the time line. As soon as I do an error window opens up telling Vegas has encountered a problem and asks for me to send a report to Sony. I do and then the Vegas interface is gone. I ran a few tests. From one media bin I just started double-clicking on each clip adding it to the time line. Add these clips when it fine. I tried another media bin and did the same thing. Several went into the time line fine and then one didn’t which brought up the same error window. So I was finding these “bad” clips all over the place.

In my project where the first “bad” clip was I re-captured it and got the same results. I then made it an avi and it went in fine. It appears that these random “bad” clips are still “bad” after re-capturing them. I did get one to actually go into the time line OK. But, that one caused problem #2.

Problem #2. When I would save and exit Vegas and reload the project, this clip was being replaced by another clip from another media bin. I would again replace it with the right one and save out again. when I reload it, the same wrong clip, again, replaced the one that way there. And when I checked the properties on the wrong clip, it had the name of the right clip that “should” be there.

Problem #3. In another project all seemed to be OK but when I started to take a clip and adjust it into a slow-motion clip, that Vegas error window came up and ask me to send a report to Sony. And again the interface was gone.

So, as you can see, with this happening, I can’t get anything edited at this point. So we’ve got to figure what is the cause of these buggers and fix it. BTW, I’m not really getting a “freeze”, it’s shutting Vegas down.

I hope this helps, Alf.

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[Ken Bennett]

Here is my system hardware:
Supermicro X7DWA-N, 16GB DDR2 FB-DIMM Mem, dual Xeon 2.83GHz 8-cores, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT, RocketRAID 2313 & 2221 controllers, VideoToaster card, 500GB system drive, four 1TB storage drives, 4TB internal RAID-5 for video and 6TB external RAID-5 backup & 2nd video drive.

Software:
Vegas Pro 9.0e, VT[5b] and Adobe Production Suite CS4. DirectX 10, QT Player 7.6.6, TMPGEnc and Firefox.

OS: Windows 7 64-bit.

I capture from HDV tape via Vegas Capture (as m2t) and edit 1080 projects.

I recently did reload WIN 7. If this helps anybody, great. let me know the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Thanks.

Ken Bennett
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[Ken Bennett]

Here is my system hardware:
Supermicro X7DWA-N, 16GB DDR2 FB-DIMM Mem, dual Xeon 2.83GHz 8-cores, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT, RocketRAID 2313 & 2221 controllers, VideoToaster card, 500GB system drive, four 1TB storage drives, 4TB internal RAID-5 for video and 6TB external RAID-5 backup & 2nd video drive.

Software:
Vegas Pro 9.0e, VT[5b] and Adobe Production Suite CS4. DirectX 10, QT Player 7.6.6, TMPGEnc and Firefox.

OS: Windows 7 64-bit.

I recently did reload WIN 7. If this helps anybody, great. let me know the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Thanks.

Ken Bennett
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