Bug Report - Vegas crashing importing .avi files

skiltrip wrote on 2/1/2008, 7:42 PM
After capturing clips from my HV20 with Cineform NeoHDV (for pulldown), I import the .avi clips into Vegas. Vegas imports the clips then crashes. and gives me the "Sony Vegas Pro has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Now If i move this message window out of the way, I can save my project and even work normally. After it's saved, and I close Vegas, I can reopen it and everything is there. So it's weird it's encountering some kind of error, when it appears that nothing actually went wrong.

Also, when I click on Properties of either the audio or video portion of the .avi clip in the timeline, and click the General tab, I get the same crash/error message.

I first encountered the error using Pro 8.0b, so for kicks I uninstalled and reinstalled from the CD so I had 8.0a, but no difference. I have since reinstalled the update so I'm back up to 8.0b. Tested again to make sure, and the problem is still there.

What could be going on here?

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Cheno wrote on 2/2/2008, 12:17 PM
Humor me and try importing into Vegas 7 (even if you need to download a trial), and see if you can reproduce the same problems. There are a number of reports of Vegas 8 and Canon .m2t files not getting along. I believe there may be an issue with Cineform intermediate files (from Canon .m2t) and Vegas 8 as well. Almost like Canon leaves a fingerprint in the Cineform file that Vegas doesn't like.

Some aren't having any issues with Canon / Vegas 8 but I think more are than aren't. I've resorted back to 7 for the time being. Spent one day with about 20 crashes during about 6 hours of editing because of the issues in 8.

Test in 7 and get back to us, will ya?

cheno
skiltrip wrote on 2/3/2008, 5:56 AM
Thanks for the suggestion Cheno. I tried the same thing with a newly installed trial version of Vegas 7, and interestingly enough, it happened in version 7 too.

CClub wrote on 2/13/2008, 11:52 AM
I'm having the exact same issue. It was helpful to hear that I can actually continue working and just move the Error window out of the way, but it's disconcerting nonetheless. Anyone had success addressing this issue?
skiltrip wrote on 2/13/2008, 12:22 PM
CClub,

I've been working with a tech from Cineform on this for a couple weeks, and we haven't been able to find the problem.

This was the original solution given to me by Cineform, but it did not work for me, try it and see if it does anything for you...

"There is a conflict that arises on some systems between the CineForm codec that is installed with Vegas and the one included with Neo and other CineForm products.

The problem is that the decoder that comes with Vegas is older and doesn't support our newer encodings (like you're getting with Neo HDV).

What you need to do is go into "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 8.0" and look for the file named "cfhd.dll". Rename it.

Then start up Vegas and try importing your CineForm clips created with Neo, and you should no longer see the problem."

Actually, so far, nothing has worked for me, including totally reinstalling both Vegas and NeoHDV. Out of curiousity, do you have the full version of Vegas 8, or do you have 6/7 and the 8 upgrade?

Also, what other audio/video/multimedia software are you running on your machine? Just trying to come up with some things we might have in common to figure out what that source is.
CClub wrote on 2/13/2008, 1:18 PM
I have V7 and the 8 upgrade. I am using this with clips from Canon HV20 and Sony V1u, via Cineform 24fps captures. I'm using Excalibur with this; are you also (not likely the problem but figured I'd ask). I have a number of other multimedia software installed but I'm not running at the time (Adobe Suite, Mpeg video wizard, Nero 8 Roxio 8, Sony Hi-MD software and drivers, a pretty good number of Vegas plugins).

Have you tried V8 with clips that are not HDV via Cineform? I'm in the middle of a project with the above clips and haven't had time to try it with other formats of imported footage.