Crashing all of the time

Ridlin wrote on 6/9/2007, 1:00 PM

AMD 64 3500+ with 1 gig of Ram. Runs all other apps and games just fine.

I recently dished out the $500 for the full blown version of vegas and all it does is crash at seemly random times destroying my work.

I'm going from the $100 version of vegas (screenblast) which almost NEVER crashed on this same machine. I've been tempted to go back to that and start working on Sony to refund my money.

Looking around the forums here I've noticed a few things.

Having too many things in your project media tab can apparently be bad? I've tried to cut that back, but it just seems stupid to have to do that when I had no restriction before.

Is it because I have it installed on the D: drive?

Should I prerender everything to AVIs to help keep it from working so hard?

One change from the old program is I'm working in HD now, is that the culprit?

It's gotten to the point that I worry a little with every action I take in the editor.

It's only a 3 1/2 minute long music video.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Rob

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4eyes wrote on 6/9/2007, 1:21 PM

Rob,
Are you working with a m2t video file?
It the program is crashing it could be some corruption in the video .m2t file.
They are mpeg videos, what I do on my system if I suspect a bad mpeg file is re-render a new one
by going to "Render As" | HDV 1080i template and create the new file. Then use this new file to edit the video.
If the captured .m2t file is very large & long I find the corrupted spots, split & delete around the corruption and then render a new .m2t file to work with.

Ridlin wrote on 6/10/2007, 4:52 AM

Thanks 4eyes, and yes it is a bunch of little m2t files. I remember seeing a green bar flash in the middle of preview window on a few of the crashes. Maybe that's what it is.

But they were captured from a brand new $4,000 Sony camcorder into a brand new sony editor. No error or skipped frames were reported.

As much as I enjoy the space they save, I guess I need to find a way to capture these files uncompressed?

Thanks again for your help,

Rob

4eyes wrote on 6/10/2007, 10:54 AM

Rob,
It does sound like hd-mpeg2 corruption. Even though the camera is expensive I've found to only use the Sony Premium or Sony HDV Tapes because of exactly what you describe.

Using the cursor keys If you expand the video timeline to see each frame then as you advance each frame in the video make note of the frame count. When my version of VMS gets to a bad section the program will either hang or terminate. So then I reload again, go a few frames prior to the bad section and hit the "S" (split) key to split the video. Then use the mouse and mark a spot past the bad spot about 18frames, hit the "S" key (split) again to isolate the bad section, then highlight the bad section and hit the delete key to remove it, then drag to second part to the first to fill in the gap. After I've done this with the bad spots I'll render to a new .m2t file.

Sometimes the video seems to be good but I'll have a conversion render fail such as creating a hd-wmv file. When this happens I'll render a new .m2t file and use the new rendered HDV file. This seems to fix the problems with the videos prior to my using the better sony tapes.

Ridlin wrote on 6/10/2007, 7:21 PM

Sony Premium HDV. Maybe something happened during the capture. Looks like I didn't need the clips it was crashing on, so things have been more stable.

I've also started doing my effects in seperate projects, rendering them to mpeg, and then bringing them into my main project.

Works better than trying to do them all in one place.

Thanks for your help!