bizzare bug kills vegas

JHendrix wrote on 8/20/2011, 9:04 PM

OK I just recreated this bug/crash and its quite strange.

I have a project all laid out and rough cut.

now I add a solid and apply a mask to it with like 5 anchor points.

close the project > reopen > vegas crashes at 10% upon launch.

did it a couple days ago, backtracked to an earlier version that would open...have been continuing to edit. decided to test it again tonight and was shocked to see the same result.

I am going into this project in terror with bugs like this. never was like this in the past. it seems at any point in the project vegas could (or certainly will) just decided to not open.

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JHendrix wrote on 8/22/2011, 7:35 AM

@Steve

Im not sure I understand. Most of those drives are OSX drives containing various versions of OSX and have nothing to do with Vegas.

I use a single dedicated internal drive for my primary windows 7 os.

for data I use Sonnet SATA card and external box but no raid as of yet.

Sonnet Tempo SATA Gen 2 PCI Express Adapter
x2 Sonnet Fusion DP500

I have big projects so each project has multiple dedicated data drives (i.e. P2 Drive, HDV Drive) no partitions

is the scratch drive the same as the "temp folder"? does it matter what non-vegas media is on the scratch drive?

JHendrix wrote on 8/22/2011, 7:43 AM

by the way, the "hot rod guy" was a salesman at http://www.adkvideoediting.com/ and I was about to buy a new system till he said that. I assumed he would not say that on a sales call unless it was true. I guess it might have been a misunderstanding.

I also assume the raid factor itself would be marginal. and software raid has always seemed unreliable. I would have to spend alot of money to get true hardware raid, at that point I'd rather get a new computer.

but I am running consistently low CPU and RAM percentages on performance monitor so its hard to see how a new box would matter either

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regarding frame sizes I just meant that some on the video is HDV 1440, some is P2 720 and some is P2 full hd.

there was also an error in the video shoot where some of the P2 720 was wrongly shot at 24PN when the rest of the video is 30P so after a bunch of research we made the project 60i to facilitate the problem.

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about providing a copy of the project file, i do have one available but not sure it will be of much help because i tested it and once I turn off the data drives and vegas cant find the project media the projects open without crashing after telling vegas to ignore all missing.

amendegw wrote on 8/22/2011, 1:34 PM

"about providing a copy of the project file, i do have one available but not sure it will be of much help because i tested it and once I turn off the data drives and vegas cant find the project media the projects open without crashing after telling vegas to ignore all missing."You are aware that you can use the following procedure?

1) Create an mty Windows Folder.
2) In your Vegas Project, do a file -> "save as" and navigate to the folder you just created. Make sure you check the "Copy Media with project" checkbox.
3) Select all files in the folder and zip them into a single file. If you don't have a zip utility you can download 7-zip
4) Upload the zipfile to your favorite ftp site, or copy to your public Dropbox folder.

This should take care of any "missing" files in the .veg and put everything in a single file for download. Of course, a very, very large file (>1GB) might be too large for efficient upload/download. (you might help your filesize by clicking the lightning bolt on your Project media viewer, prior to your "save as").

...Jerry

Steve Mann wrote on 8/22/2011, 2:46 PM

"is the scratch drive the same as the "temp folder"? does it matter what non-vegas media is on the scratch drive?"

It doesn't matter *what* is in the TEMP folders, only that you have 2X the project size free.

Steve

Laurence wrote on 8/22/2011, 3:34 PM

Hmm, A Mac user... could it be you are using an external USB hard drive formatted with Fat 32 and running up against the 4GB file size limit with some temp file?