When was the last time you did some housekeeping? Defrag? Disk Clean up? Virus checking? Ad ware/Spyware removal? Sys drive space? All the usual suspects. PLUS look to the UNDO buffer folder and get busy with the duster!!! Lock-ups/Crashes leave behind a mass of undos - these don't/haven't been removed on my main edit PC. I've needed to do this manually.

Bottom line is that I don't/haven't had lockups. And it would appear/seem nor do a lot of others.

I wouldn't/don't/haven't done a reinstall until I would have done some of the serious housework above.

No lock ups here and I have about 6 hours on V7 now.

I've also experienced similar behaviour with V5 and now also with V7. Especially if I browse through source material in Vegas' explorer and change the previewed clip very quickly. Picture and audio meters stop playing, sound continues. Keyboard does not respond either. Then after 30 - 60 seconds everything gets back to normal.

I was forced to reinstall my computer last week so I'm having now completely fresh install of everything. Let's see if it helped me or not.

Harold I don't know how many hours, but since install I've used it every day minus maybe 2 weeks all told?

I flash between V6 and V7. Use Media Manager PLUS Acid PLUS Sound Forge - I AM a messy editor!

BUT, this machine is devoted to NLE work. Yes I can crash it and lockup when I get over enthusiastic and start switching f/w devices and so on - User error! Otherwise it is playing as good as gold.

I had a BIG issue a year ago with V6c-d. It knocked out my Media Manager and this happened at the same time my MPEG rendering crashed my PC. The Media Manager thing was NOT related to the MPEG thing. It just felt like it. MM was due to the version of it and the rendering was due to my PC overheating, and during MPEG rendering.

Now all that IS behind me - I'm sure something ELSE will take its place, LOL, Vegas Seven and its parts are working fine.

I've been having an odd problem that is similar. Related? don't know.

From time to time I just can't get proper playback. At first it seemed like it was being caused by going out to a nested veg, editing it, and then coming back. I'm not so sure it's the nested veg, though. It seems like if I take the focus away from vegas and keep it off for a minute that this also causes problems. In either case, when I bring the focus back to vegas and try to play I get a framerate of 2-4 frames, even on straight DV footage.

This machine just has on GB of RAM. Maybe Windows dumped some important parts of Vegas to the page file, maybe Vegas closed all the media files and has to open them again, I don't know. It doesn't appear to be heat, I'm monitoring the cpu temp and it seems okay.

The other thing I'm noticing is that sometimes when I stop playback the audio lets out a pretty nasty buzz/screech/jackhammer for a second or two or, last night, 10 seconds. I wonder if there's an audio conflict I need to deal with?

These are new problems, but the project is more complex than usual and this is the first time I've tried using a nested veg file.

Rob Mack

"I am getting repeted random lockups in Vegas 7, almost like Vegas can't process a command or keystroke and then locks up cold."

What kind of media are you playing on the time line? Mpeg , Avi, Cineform etc.

Rob - in the preferences there is an option that says Vegas will release media files when the application loses focus. You might want to clear this and see if things get better. It would be interesting to know it (I haven't tried clearing this; just noticed the setting yesterday).

I too have been having similar problems with both V5 and V6: when playing back, the audio gives a nasty buzz and everything hangs (while the nasty buzz continues).

I've tried working with both Scenalyzer and vidcap captures. Same. Tried working on the system C: drive or my big multimedia drive. Same. Increased page file size. Same.

I'll check the undo buffers as suggested by Grazie.

Now working on removing useless startup processes and then perhaps look at the video/audio drivers.

Pierre

Edit: Just to follow up... I thought I had the answer (WAV files with different properties than the project), but that wasn't it... on a hunch, removed one of two USB cards, and I've now had two 3-hour editing sessions without a freeze... some kind of conflict, I guess.

Well, actually I did try it and can't remember it making a diff. Also, if you go out to photoshop to edit an image you need for Vegas to let go of the file.

This is a DV project being run off a newly installed array. I may want to check this on a single disc just for sanity.

Rob

Jayster,

"release media files when the application loses focus" - I absolutely disable that first thing after install. I've found this causes all kinds of problems, especially with firewire externals or networked drives.

I've had an instance of V7 open for the past 2 days, periodically working on the timeline. 2 days with V7 and Ameritrade streamer console and Remote Desktop to my other PC (I'm in the process of moving my "real" work to my office with my editing equipment, don't ask).

V7 works fine every time I go back to editing it.

I am playing avi captured from scenalyzer.

Just installed the V7 trial last night. Was playing with something new-to-me -- tweaking points in a bezier mask --- and it froze. Didn't wait a long time to see if it would come back, just killed the process. It didn't happen again. In all, I used it for about 3.5 hours.

Am hoping that it was an anomoly and not a sign of things to come.