A very strange temporary bug in a V21 project

Mindmatter wrote on 10/14/2023, 10:40 AM

Hi all

so I'm working an a rather tedious event photo montage with a couple hundred jpgs in about 20 folders, lots of animated titles etc They are all organized in several custom bins with subbins.

I noticed from the start that V21 was behaving kinda slow, I would switch to the client's open PDF with all the instructions back and forth, and unllike usual, V21 would take like 6 seconds to come back online when switching back from the PDF.

Not really a showstopper, but I then got to a subfolder of folder 4 with about 51 pics and 3 vertical mp4 clips. And as soon as I navigated in that media bin folder, V21 went haywire. It would either take almost 30 seconds to react, stutter, not scroll, and eventually crash. I thought it might be those mp4 ( iphone?) and threw them out of the project. No change. Restart, same thing, as soon as navigating that folder. A few total windows restarts, same thing.

Then, suddenly, out of nowhere - all good. Not even the slow reaction when switching in and out of Vegas. Hadn't changed a setting or anything.

So, what on earth was going on there? Any ideas?

Thanks!

Comments

J-Toresen wrote on 10/14/2023, 10:51 AM

@Mindmatter

Next time, open Task manager and see if another program uses many resources. For example, antivirus or MS update service.

Jøran Toresen

Mindmatter wrote on 10/14/2023, 11:00 AM

Thanks but both comments are besides the point. None of these settings ever interfered with anything in all the years I used Vegas., its down to that specific project and folder, and maybe V21. I laid it out quite specifically in the description.

RogerS wrote on 10/14/2023, 3:58 PM

Looking at task manager you can also see VEGAS's own usage. Is it running out of graphics VRAM? System ram? Just because it's deleted from the project doesn't mean it is cleared from memory.