Freezing up while building peaks

tbush wrote on 4/6/2009, 12:08 PM

I have been reading a lot about Vegas 8 freezing up. Well, I really haven't been having any trouble until now. I have a video that I need to re-edit some. I created it last summer...everything was fine. Now when I open that video, it stops building peaks and freezes about 27%.

I am not sure what to do. I need to get this done. Is there possibly a workaround. I still have Vegas 7, but I think I remember reading that you can't open Vegas 8 veg files in Vegas 7.

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance, Tara

Comments

kairosmatt wrote on 4/6/2009, 12:46 PM

What kind of media are you using?

tbush wrote on 4/6/2009, 12:51 PM

hdv m2t clips

kairosmatt wrote on 4/6/2009, 12:59 PM

I've had this problem with HDV as well.

How did you capture the files? Are you sure the extension is .m2t and not .mpeg?

One work around is to be ready to immediately hit "cancel" down in the bottom left when Vegas says building peaks. But don't cancel while its opening the project.

If the file that has been crashing while building peaks is only video on the timeline, you might be good to go. But if its audio is there, you may have problems rendering out the audio. In this case, see if you can render the audio for that file to a .wav and replace it. You may have to use another program (soundforge, another NLE etc).

However, I was going through file by file, and there was always another error waiting. I just sighed, and went and about converting every single HDV clip to an intermediate. Time consuming, but if you have a lot of HDV on the timeline saves you headaches later. You may have to use another program to render out to intermediate as well (again soundforge, another NLE, even After Effects)

Good luck!
kairosmatt

tbush wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:07 PM

Thanks Kairosmatt,

I captured with HDV Split and they are m2t files. I installed Vegas 7, and it won't open the Vegas 8 file. I have both programs open right now. I am writing down the project file names so I know exactly which clips I used. Then I am going to import them into Vegas 7 and see if I can just put them together and get everything to work.

The video is only 2 minutes long. It was a hotel video tour that I did..I am updating it.

Thanks for your suggestions, I will give them a try before I edit in Vegas 7.

Tara

tbush wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:17 PM

Kairosmatt.... you are "da bomb"

Your suggestion regarding just canceling the building peaks are the file is open works great. The video is running smoothly and not freezing up and the audio files sound great. That is so awesome!!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

kairosmatt wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:24 PM

Tara,
Glad that worked. Since your project is short, I would recommend one more thing: render a test .wav to make sure it will work before you get any further into the project.

Sometimes the same peak building bug will also affect the rendering.

cheers,
kairosmatt

tbush wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:25 PM

Thanks Kairosmatt!

tbush wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:33 PM

Kairosmatt.. The wave file sounds great. Thanks again. Time to get to work.

farss wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:42 PM

You can disable peak files in Vegas's options.

Bob.

tbush wrote on 4/6/2009, 1:50 PM

Thank you Bob. I will do that.

kairosmatt wrote on 4/6/2009, 2:45 PM

Duh Bob! Totally forgot about that!

For the record, if this bug affects your rendering, turning off the peaks won't help on that end.

kairosmatt