Cineform keeps crashing under Vista 64.

Laurence wrote on 1/19/2008, 7:51 PM
I am working on a project and everything was going along just fine using native m2t clips. Then I rendered some of the hand-held parts with deshaker into the Cineform codec. Wow, what a difference. I can't work for more than a few minutes at a time without Vegas crashing. Sometimes it justs lasts seconds before going down.

I know it's easy to slam Vista, but it was working just great until I added Cineform into the mix. I looked on the DVInfo forum and saw that Cineform strongly recommends Windows XP.

I can't go back to XP without losing access to some of the RAM I have in this system, and to be honest, Vista was humming along nicely until I added Cineform into the mix. It makes me wonder how many people have been blaming Vista for problems that may be more related to certain programs being well coded for the OS.

Anyway, the Pegasys codec seems to work quite well in Vista and I see some other codecs that can do HD in Vegas. Does anyone have recommendations of what I should use until Cineform works these compatibility issues out?

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Laurence wrote on 1/22/2008, 10:19 AM
Ok the problem for both this and and a seemingly unrelated problem in DVDA are both fixed now.

I unregistered, then deleted AJACaptureFilter.ax from the Neo-HDV directory. It seems that that filter can cause trouble when there is no Aja card to go along with it. Cineform now works perfectly in my new Vista 64 environment, and the crash I got when I start DVDA is gone as well.