Chienworks demo crash, and RAM preview

satish wrote on 11/9/2002, 5:42 PM
I ran the demo .veg from the Chienworks website, and it looks like VV crashes even before invoking 3D LE for anything. What i mean is that the problem is not in 3D LE. Probably someone from SoFo can try it out and see what's going wrong.

About the RAM set to zero, it is necessary ONLY for refreshing the preview window instantly when you enable/disable the pivot control (in the 3D LE dialog). When rendering the RAM option do not affect anything. So if you get a crash when using 3D LE it is not related to the RAM setting. Please try out a few times and see if the crash can be reproduced. If someone can give me a sequence to reproduce a crash then i can fix it.

- Satish

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 11/9/2002, 7:28 PM
Hmmm. All i can say is that obviously that .veg file worked for me. ;)
I'll upload a second copy of it just in case FTP messed up on that one.
http://www.chienworks.com/media/st-text-scroll-2.veg

I wasn't able to render directly to 2-pass WMV, although single pass worked fine. When i tried rendering to 2-pass, it stopped about 10% of the way through, although the "time elapsed" counter kept running. I ended up rendering to DV .avi first, then rerendering this file to 2-pass WMV. This is what i typically do anyway since i usually end up rendering my project to many different compressed formats for distribution. It's a lot faster to render all the compressed versions from a finished .avi file than from the original project each time.
Chienworks wrote on 11/9/2002, 7:30 PM
It looks like the first FTP was the problem, the new file i uploaded is several bytes larger. I'll delete the old version.

Sorry folks! I didn't mean it. Honest!
BillyBoy wrote on 11/9/2002, 8:46 PM
That did it, but... now Vegas complains about the semitrans-balls-dv.avi, "missing" which of course isn't part of the veg file, so anyone wishing to see the 3D-text demo just say ignore when it asks and you'll see the effect, but not the dancing balls, which I saw when looking at the demo on Chienwork's site, which I thought was a cool presentation.

Thanks.