Vegas 6.0 crashing on me too!

DVDeviations wrote on 4/21/2005, 5:12 PM
Hi everyone,

I know some other people have posted that this happened to them, but so far, I don't see the resolution.

Here's the history: Before going to NAB, a project was crashing during the render process (using Vegas 5.0). The error message said that an errror occurred and if you click on the details it gave a HEX address, etc. I tried copying the project to another instance of Vegas, tried rendering on another computer, same thing happened.

So, after NAB, I tried downloading Vegas 6.0 and using it - "what the f---, couln't be worse, right? Wrong, when I am just working in Vegas, it crashes (basically the same HEX address information).

I am going to begin recreating the project from scratch now, but here is how it is constructed: There are three video tracks, the top track is simply text media, the second track is a duplicate of the third track. The second track contains the following Video Event FX: linear blur, cookie cutter, HSL adjust (Ultimate S -Pushed 16mm) ...I did do a lot of keyframing with the linear blur and the cookie cutter, don't know if that makes a difference.

The third track just has the HSL adjust (Ultimate S - Pushed 16mm) to match the colors on the second track.

Computer: 2.4 gighertz, RAID 0 drive, 1 gig memory

This project is overdue, of course! I love Vegas, hopefully I can move beyond this small hurdle!

Comments

cspvideo wrote on 4/21/2005, 6:25 PM
Sometimes there can be a corrupt piece of video in your project that can cause it to crash when rendering. Have you tried disabling the individual tracks, one at a time and see if it renders? Does it crash at the beginning or at some precise point in the process.

If it proves to be a specific video clip you can recapture that clip and replace it on the time line. I had something like this happen once. I removed the offending clip, actually I cut and pasted it into another instance of Vegas. Then I rendered that clip to an avi file and dropped that new file back in the old project and it cured the problem.

Since your project was crashing in version 5 it's probably something specific in the project. None of what you described should cause your project to crash and the computer specs are fine. I'd try and isolate which specific object in your project is the villain.

Jimco wrote on 4/21/2005, 6:28 PM
If you're up to the task, you can hook a debugger up to Vegas and see if you can locate the clip that's causing it.

Jim
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/21/2005, 6:42 PM
did you try the project on another computer? Maybe bad memory?
johnmeyer wrote on 4/21/2005, 6:57 PM
Open the fX dialog. Do you have any non-Vegas plugins? I had a brief problem with Vegas crashing about a year ago, and found out it was caused by a poorly written, non-Vegas plugin. For troubleshooting purposes, I'd temporarily move all plugins into another folder, restart Vegas, and try again.
DVDeviations wrote on 4/21/2005, 6:59 PM
Hi Friar,

Yes, I did try on another computer and I agree with you, it is actually a problem with the individual project, but the crashing got a little worse when I first installed Vegas 6.0. "Just in case" I also just installed the Vegas 6.0a update, but I am not sure if this is any different than the one purchased.

The crashing happens at different parts of the project, different video clips. I have tried to render smaller segments of clips, it still crashes after a while. I think I figured out a "work around" sort of building on what you recommended in your first post. I am rendering an AVI file of the second and third clips. Everytime it crashes, I will just figure out where it crashed and continue rendering from there. Once I have all of these AVI files, I can put them on a new timeline with the text and music tracks and then render to mpg-2 from there.

Recapturing is not really an option, this project is 8mm film, I don't want to run the film through the projector more than I have to, this wears and tears on the film sprockets.

Thanks for the help, helps calm the nerves!
DVDeviations wrote on 4/21/2005, 7:05 PM
Hi John,

The only non-Vegas plug in that I have is the Ultimate S HSL "pushed 16mm" plug in which gives the film colors a little more "pop". The others are standard linear blur and cookie cutter.
I don't even have any keyframes for the HSL adjust, and I have used it before, so I don't think it is that, but I will consider putting it temporarily in another folder for troubleshooting purposes.

Thanks everyone for your help...
Skevos_Mavros wrote on 4/22/2005, 12:51 AM
You might want to try opening two Vegas instances, opening your project in one instance and leaving the second empty. Then copy the project from the first to the second. If that doesn't work, copy it one section at a time till you find the bit/s that's causing the issue.

Good luck!
DVDeviations wrote on 4/25/2005, 5:19 PM
Thanks everyone for their input on my crashing issue. I think I tried everything suggested by everyone on this post, but nothing worked, including the recapturing bit.

This was the first time that I had used "Linear Blur" to blur something out. I usually use "Gaussian Blur". So, I tried substituting Linear Blur with Gaussian Blur and the crashing stopped. FWIW, I did have quite a few keyframes in the "Cookie Cutter" video effect AND some keyframes in the "Linear Blur" video effect ..... I don't know if that could have something to do with it.

Anyway, I won't be using the Linear Blur effect too much after this! I hope this post helps someone else!

Colleen
Mikeof7 wrote on 4/25/2005, 6:35 PM
Good grief...me too. And yes, of course, I have two deadlines quickly approaching! I can't risk it.

I can merely be playing back the timeline or in the middle of a render...CRASH. Having similar problems DVDeviations described. System I have includes a pentium 4 3.4E, 2GB PC 3200 and plenty of SATA hard drive space.

My best option, for now, is to copy all tracks and paste into V5 (old faithful).

Vance McDaniel wrote on 4/25/2005, 7:50 PM
Ok, I had the same problem all damn day long..I dont knw if this is goona be your fix or not..but here it goes...

I am doing a project which will show in wide screen..

I am doing some compositing and usig video from two different cameras.

One camera was set at regular TV aspect ratio..the other was wide screen

When I went to render for DVD arc I set it to render for DVD arh wide.
CRASH CRASH CRASH

When I set it to DVD ARCH video stream..NO problems and in the final DVD render...everything was A-OK

Peep it out..

V.