5.0b wasnt quite ready !!!

emailrobert wrote on 10/15/2004, 9:29 PM
I have worked in Vegas for a number of years now. I just purchased 5.0b (2 Copies) for my team and we have been in it non stop now around the clock for about 72 hours to meet a quick deadline. We have had at least one fatal crash an hour PER MACHINE. After one fatal crash, when the project reopened it told us that the avi file was missing, and it had just disappeared and we had to recapture. I couldnt render an MPG1 file for a quick review (default settings), the machine locked up. I remember that error a couple of years ago with VV3. I have had several clips that I "normalized" the audio with the switch, and the audio went to ZERO instead of normalizing. The machine crashed hard when I simply renamed a clip in the media pool. I mean it didnt even recover the backup file. I should have waited for 5.0c. PLEASE HURRY!!!

P.S. These are state of the art machines that have ran VV4 almost flawlessly.

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Coursedesign wrote on 10/15/2004, 9:31 PM
You wouldn't happen to have Win XP SP2 on these machines?
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/15/2004, 10:12 PM
That would be my first question too.
Robert, I'm rendering at this moment (non-networked) on 6 machines, 6 different project piece, 3 unrelated, all to MPEG or uncompressed. Were they longer projects, I'd be network rendering with a queue.
Most of us here are using 5.0b, and while it's not perfect, it definitely is prime-time ready.
Maybe some specifics about the State of the Art machines? Mine currently aren't. Fastest is a 3.6, slowest is a 2.4, some HT some not.
But no SP2 on anything.
There also could be other software tools that are causing problems, could be heat related, could be BIOS related, could be a lot of things.
Howzabout some additional info if you're looking for help.
If you're just making a statement, I agree that it sucks when problems creep up during deadlines, but you can't blame Vegas when it's running so well for so many.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/15/2004, 10:27 PM
I'm one of the biggest complainers on this board -- mostly about DVDA -- but Vegas 5.0b is pretty similar in stability to 4.0d.

Do you have any Firewire drives attached? There is definitely an issue on some computers when the media resides on Firewire drives. Sometimes the computer will hang for up to 30 seconds when scubbing the video in Vegas. On my computer, it comes back and works fine. There is a Microsoft patch for this that clears up the problem, but it makes the external drives transfer data about 20% more slowly.
tailgait wrote on 10/16/2004, 4:56 PM
I've had nothing but trouble with V5b. What I want to know is why, after I did a system recovery on my VAIO, did V5 ask for the utility netfx.exe before I could execute V5? I ran V5 before my recovery without it on the same system. What that utility now? Anyone know?
Burt
p@mast3rs wrote on 10/16/2004, 6:30 PM
netfx.exe is MS .NET framework which is needed. The reason it ran before was you already had it installed. When you recovered your system, it wasnt installed with your OS. Reinstall the .NET framework again, and all will be well.