Stephen Mann
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I’ve had twp HP computers where the stock PSU died. They ship with the minimum supply for the installed components. Add a second video card or more hard-disk drives, and you may well be on the road to cooking the PSU.
Steve Mann
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“Did my best to find an answer in the manual but no luck.”
You won’t find “clip” in the help files or manual because in Vegas, everything on the timeline is an event, not a clip.
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I use cheap Epsons. (Currently the R280 only because I got them really cheap when CompUSA closed the local store). When they fail, they go into landfill.
Steve Mann
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“Low Memory” error is a Windows issue, not a Vegas issue. If it were an application bug, then it would be predictable and repeatable. If only a small percentage of users are experiencing the problem and the majority of them are not, then it’s probably not a bug.
If you can describe the steps to make it happen, and other users, including Sony Tech Support, can duplicate it, then it is a likely bug.
Many Sony users edit MXF footage every day without getting Windows errors, so what you probably have is a broken computer, not a Vegas bug. By starting over with a clean install of Windows and Vegas, you eliminate all of the self-inflected fixes you’ve attempted over the past few days or weeks.
“When I replaced my graphics card i obviously updated the driver that goes with it, so they were the latest version.
”Have you *verified* this? When you insert and remove various graphics cards you set up the opportunity for the graphics card to be using the wrong driver. When Windows says “loading drivers”, it first looks at the signatures of the drivers already loaded. If it finds one it likes, that’s what’s loaded.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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“All my drivers are current and up to date, i have replaced my video card twice to see of that was the issue”
You don’t say which error that hundreds of people are experiencing. By replacing the video card, you may have inadvertently used an older driver. Run “dxdiag” and look at the display driver that Windows is using. Is it the latest driver that you downloaded? Also, installing new hardware does not ensure that you have the latest drivers unless Windows loads it from the net.
When someone insists that their computer is good because other programs work fine, I am even more certain that the computer has a driver issue.
I run AE, Photoshop, and dozens of other programs, and I use Vegas daily. I can count the number of crashes on my system over the past five years on one hand. And they were all user-induced.
Hundreds of people may be experiencing errors, as you say, but many thousands of people aren’t. You may have shotgunned the patient with so many attempts to fix the problem that you may have introduced new overlapping errors.
Here’s an idea. And it’s a lot cheaper than buying Premiere just to find the same problems anew. Buy a new1Tb drive – they are as cheap as $50 on NewEgg. Remove your system drive, install the new HDD, and reinstall Windows and Vegas fresh. I predict that your projects will edit and encode just fine, and you will have proved that Vegas is not the problem.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Cool tip – I learned something new – my day is complete.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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If you have FX on the timeline, then two hours for a five-minute video is not unusual.
You don’t say anything about your PC or your source file format or what you are trying to “render as”.
As Mike said, memory has nothing to do with your drive space, but trying to edit with only 500Mb free on your only hard-disk drive indicates that your PC may be inadequate for video editing. Since Vegas creates temporary files as large as your final output file, you could be in a condition where Windows wants to create more pagefile space to prevent a “low memory” error, but there’s not enough free contiguous hard-disk to do it, so Windows *may* present it as a “low memory” error.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Where do I begin?
“My system is in good working order”
Except that it crashes and you get low memory errors. Other than that, your system is in “good working order”.Vegas is working fine for thousands of users, many who use MXF files. Fix your computer. Start with the latest drivers from the video card manufacturer. Just because you can see video on your display does not mean that your drivers are good. The drivers contain many processes that any application may call. If a newer application calls an old process in an outdated driver, an Exception Error or Access Violation is likely.
“low on memory error”
I can guess that you haven’t done a forum search on “low memory”.Look here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/928710And here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/924960No, wait, that’s an echo…
You *can* use other NLE software, but until you fix you computer, you will still experience problems.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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People use the term “bug” much to loosely. If no one can reproduce the problem, then it’s highly unlikely that there’s a bug that only affects your installation.
I spent a few years in PC Tech Support and I can assure you that if the support engineers cannot duplicate your problem, then they certainly can’t fix it.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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We’re both right. (You more than me). I d1d some digging and found that manufacturers are encouraged to provide their drivers to Microsoft to be included in the automatic updates.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com