Making movies not too stable

mikegb wrote on 9/22/2008, 9:55 PM
Over the years, I have used Pinnacle, Nero, MGI, Roxio, Microsoft, etc. I have always had stability problems with the various software, especially crashes.

I was somewhat surprised at how stable Vegas Movie Studio was. It seemed pretty good. That is, however, until I started to create movies. Creating MP4 movies results in regular crashes for me in the middle of the transcoding. Other formats have also crashed.

No real question, and I suspect this has been talked about on other threads. Just a little disappointment. I can restart my movie creation and it can work perhaps the 2nd or 3rd time. The only problem is that it might be an hour into the transcode before it crashes. Ugh.

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Eugenia wrote on 9/22/2008, 11:11 PM
Make sure you are using the latest version of the software. Then, go to your Vegas Preferences, Video, and change the 'number of threads' to 2. If it still crashes during exporting, try with 1.

Additionally, make sure you don't use a gazillion huge megapixel pictures in your movies. All pictures must be resized to near-project size before used in Vegas.
mikegb wrote on 9/24/2008, 8:35 PM
Nope. Set to 2 threads, crash. Set to 1 thread, crash. No pictures. Just pure avchd from a sony camera trying to output to an avcdhd movie. Just basic transitions and some title text. Crash, crash crash. Oh yea, latest Vegas software too.

Ugh, frustrating.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: VegasMovieStudioPE90.exe
Application Version: 9.0.0.85
Application Timestamp: 48a5d85c
Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a7a6
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00040638
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
mikegb wrote on 9/24/2008, 8:45 PM
A properties on one of my source .mts files (from my Sony HD camera) shows:

Video: 00:00:55.555, 29.970 fps interlaced, 1920x1080x12, AVC
Audio: 00:00:55.555, 48,000 Hz, Stereo, Dolby AC-3

My video is comprised of a number of these .mts files with transitions between them and some simple title text show the date on some of them. Pretty simple.

When I try to output this to an avchd video, it crashes as I have indicated. It seems to be transcoding though as it takes a long time. Is there any option to have it maintain the same source format for the output? Perhaps that might fix the crash if it doesn't have to do so much transcoding.
Eugenia wrote on 9/24/2008, 10:30 PM
ok, it's a bug. Please use the online form to file the bug with Sony, and also copy/paste the WHOLE of the stack trace code so they can debug it.