Thanks for replying. Actually, when I saw your reply, I decided to try again with a very simple project, and that worked fine. I just created a new project, put two sounds in, no effects, no busses and only two tracks of audio. And I saved it out as 6 separate wav's without problems.

So I guess there must be another problem with both my "real" projects that causes this crash. These are 5.1 music mixes with about 20 audio tracks, some insert effects etc. When I listen to it, it sounds fine, but when I try to render it, Vegas4beta crashes, with the above mentioned error message.

I guess I'll have to try to strip things like effects, inserts, etc. out of my projects, one by one, and see if I can get find out if there is any one thing that makes the difference between crashing and not.

I'd still be interested to hear from anybody else who have had this problem or have any information on it.

Thanks,
- Bjorn Lynne

After some more testing, I have found that Vegas4beta crashes out when trying to render a 5.1 project that also contains one or more stereo busses.

Why have a stereo buss in a 5.1 project?? To use them as aux/effect sends. I put a reverb on a stereo buss, use the track "send" to send some sound into that, and then route the sound from the stereo buss back into the surround mix. This is better than adding the reverb directly to the track, because this way I will only have 1 reverb engine running - not one for each of my 30 tracks!

So I think there is clearly a fatal bug there. If anybody from SOFO are reading this, could you please look into it or at least put it down as a fatal bug. Rendering a 5.1 project that contains one or more stereo busses causes a total program shutdown - with nothing rendered. :-(

- Bjorn Lynne

Bjorn -
I've just reproduced the bug on my system. I expect something like this as been 'caught' and fixed, but I'm going to send an error report to SoFo anyway.

Yes, this is (was) a known bug in the Vegas 4 beta. It has been fixed.

Q: Why use an Sub bus for this when you can do the same thing with the Assingable FX? The assignable FX has the advantage of giving you an input gain (think of it as the master AUX send).

Peter

"It has been fixed. - Cool :) that's good to know, thanks.

Quote: Q: Why use an Sub bus for this when you can do the same thing with the Assingable FX? The assignable FX has the advantage of giving you an input gain (think of it as the master AUX send).

I am not familiar with "assignable fx". Could you give a very quick description on how to set one up and then use it as an "fx send" to send various amounts of reverb etc. from different tracks?

Thanks in advance,

- Bjorn Lynne

tools audio insert assignable fx , then use the drop down pan menu on each track to access it.
Steve S

>>I am not familiar with "assignable fx". Could you give a very quick description on how to set one up and then use it as an "fx send" to send various amounts of reverb etc. from different tracks?

Click the Add FX bus button in the mixer (or choose it from the Tools menu.)