Crash After VASST Install

FrankLP* wrote on 3/25/2006, 9:50 AM

I just recently purchased/installed VASST's InfinitiCAM, and now V6 tends to crash sporadically. Here is the detail to the error message that I get:

Sony Vegas 6.0
Version 6.0d (Build 210)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0xA5C336A9 IP:0x61015E
In Module 'vegas60.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0x21015E
Thread: GUI ID=0xC38 Stack=0x12F000-0x130000
Registers:
EAX=a5c336a9 CS=001b EIP=0061015e EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000001 SS=0023 ESP=0012fa8c EBP=08921de0
ECX=1e0169fd DS=0023 ESI=085c3e58 FS=0038
EDX=085c3e58 ES=0023 EDI=08920c38 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
0061015E: FF 10 C7 46 18 00 00 00 ...F....
00610166: 00 33 C9 8B D6 89 0A 89 .3......
Stack Dump:
0012FA8C: 00000001
0012FA90: 00000000
0012FA94: 005F938C 00400000 + 1F938C (vegas60.exe)
0012FA98: 00568D4B 00400000 + 168D4B (vegas60.exe)
0012FA9C: 085C3E58 08570000 + 53E58
0012FAA0: 08921DE0 08570000 + 3B1DE0
0012FAA4: FFFFFFFF
0012FAA8: 08905E78 08570000 + 395E78
0012FAAC: 08920C38 08570000 + 3B0C38
0012FAB0: 08920C38 08570000 + 3B0C38
0012FAB4: 08921BBC 08570000 + 3B1BBC
0012FAB8: 00568D92 00400000 + 168D92 (vegas60.exe)
0012FABC: 08920C38 08570000 + 3B0C38
0012FAC0: 085DC268 08570000 + 6C268
0012FAC4: 08905DD0 08570000 + 395DD0
0012FAC8: 08905E78 08570000 + 395E78
> 0012FAD0: 0056C7BE 00400000 + 16C7BE (vegas60.exe)
0012FAD4: 08921BBC 08570000 + 3B1BBC
0012FAD8: 08905DD0 08570000 + 395DD0
> 0012FADC: 0060266D 00400000 + 20266D (vegas60.exe)
0012FAE0: 08920C38 08570000 + 3B0C38
0012FAE4: 08905E78 08570000 + 395E78
0012FAE8: 0000026C
0012FAEC: 08905DD0 08570000 + 395DD0
> 0012FAF8: 00606159 00400000 + 206159 (vegas60.exe)
- - -
0012FFF0: 00000000
0012FFF4: 00000000
0012FFF8: 00890D1C 00400000 + 490D1C (vegas60.exe)
0012FFFC: 00000000

I'm not a code expert, so can anyone shed light on what's happening here?

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/25/2006, 10:08 AM

You are getting an access violation when Vegas is trying to read memory. I see nothing in that dump that suggests that infinitiCAM is the cause. What are you doing when Vegas crashes? Are you running infinitiCAM at the time or adding camera changes?

InfinitiCAM is a script that lies dormant on your hard drive until you run it. If you don’t run it, it never even gets loaded into memory and therefore can have no affect on Vegas whatsoever. The very architecture of scripts makes it highly unlikely that infinitiCAM (or any other script) could cause Vegas to become unstable and crash if the script is not running.

~jr

FrankLP* wrote on 3/27/2006, 6:33 AM

Thanks for the reply JohnnyRoy. This is a recent problem and the addition of infinitiCAM was the only thing that had recently changed with system. So that's why I thought maybe it had something to do with it (I know better now...thanks for the explanation).

What typically happened was that I would click on a clips crop tool (or any editing function) and then it would crash.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/27/2006, 8:19 AM

I wonder if this would have to do with a corrupt file in the filesystem? Is it a particular clip? If it’s random then maybe it’s a memory READ error. Perhaps one of your memory chips is going bad? Does it happen over long editing sessions? (i.e., maybe it is heat related?)

I would definitely contact Sony Tech support because only they can read the trace and make sense of it. Then you can narrow down what the problem might be.

~jr

FrankLP* wrote on 3/28/2006, 8:00 AM

It does seem to be random (not the same clip or action). Last night everything was stable....weird (but good). I'll see how it goes tonight and if the problem starts back up, I'll take your advice and see what Sony Tech has to say. Thanks.