Convert back to older release on V11

VideoFreq wrote on 10/5/2012, 11:41 PM
I was glad to see that r701 fixed a lot of crashes as my old version did that a lot. However, now, I can't load one of my projects, specifically the latest one I am editing. I can load older projects I've done but they are unstable. After I load an older project, I can load my new one, but doing any work crashes it and it won't reload. I have to load an older project first, but I still can't do any work. It won't even play on "Preview - Half" for more than a couple minute without crashing. Project consists of 2 tacks of AVCHD (1080-60i) a track of HDV 1080 30p and a track of EX3 mxf at 108030p.

I have tried saving it as other files but to no avail. Can I convert to an older release?
Also, I render files on separate drive partition. This caused a hiccup on a restore but it seems OK now. I have done this with every other major editor and it works OK.

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Gabonviper wrote on 10/6/2012, 1:58 AM
The same here: after seven hours of rendering a multicam MPEG-2 file, build 701 crashed without any apparent reason, having finished only a third of the movie. With build 683 I had no problems, so I reinstalled that, and it finished the three hours of footage in 17 hours, without any problems. Pro 12 crashed consistently. So, I guess it's best to hold your horses when it comes to Vegas Pro updates.
Grazie wrote on 10/6/2012, 3:06 AM
Gabonviper? What is your Graphics Card?

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Gabonviper wrote on 10/6/2012, 3:17 AM
Nvidia GeForce 8600GS. Driver 295.73
You think it's the graphics card that's causing Pro 12 to crash?
VideoFreq wrote on 10/9/2012, 12:45 AM
I think Grazie is on to something. I did reinstall SVP11 (disk) and it quit crashing for a while but I kept getting the haunting feeling my Quadro FX4600 card was broke as SVP11 did not work as well as 10. The reason, I discovered from other forums: SVP 11 will not work (well) with any graphics cards with a computer language older than CL2.0, which is c2010. In other words - rendering is gonna be a bitch. My CPU is running 80c.
My 4600 card is c2008 language of CL1.1. I bought it in 2009 for Media Composer 5 and its been great with that and every other program I've used until I upgraded earlier this summer to SVP11. Unfortunately, I'm stuck becuase I just made a 30 min feature with SVP11 and SVP10 won't open it. New, HQ cards are CL3.0, which is where I'm heading.
Good heads up Grazie! Gabonviper, your GE Force card is CL1.1, same as my FX4600. See this link to nVidia http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-gpus

You have to upgrade to newer CL 2.0 or higher hardware to use the CUDA in SVP11 and probably SVP12. SCS should say something but they want to reel you in.
Gabonviper wrote on 10/9/2012, 1:00 PM
Red: would an Asus GTX650-DC-1GD5 Direct CU 1GB GDDR-5 (CUDA core 384) be good enough? At 135€ it seems lucrative
VideoFreq wrote on 10/29/2012, 10:31 AM
The problem I encountered with Vegas 11 crashing was actually two fold: one I needed an upgraded card that had CL2 language or better and two, I was editing in 32 bit floating point (video), which you need a Xenon dual quad core to properly handle. I installed a GTX660 card (with CL3) and went back to 8 bit editing. Everything is fine now. I can find it in the drop down under video settings.
Maybe this is also the key to solving New Blue crashing issues. I could not use it before and haven't tried it since.