Movie Studio 10 Freezes at End of Video

Dominatoruke wrote on 2/25/2011, 10:21 AM

I have tried digging through the knowledge base info and the current and older posts on this forum but didn't find any answers to my issue.

I saw the thread that Farow posted regarding his "freezing" issue but mine is even more basic than that.

Background: I was using the trial version of Movie Studio 10 and used it for a number of videos for upload to Youtube etc. without any issues at all. After the trial period expired I opted to purchase the Platinum version. I've had nothing but grief ever since. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software but end up with the same results.

Specific Problem: When I bring a video (happens to be in .wmv format) into MS it plays just fine except that if I let the video play all the way to the end the computer freezes when the file is done playing. If I stop it before the end I can go back and play it at different sections with no issue. I can split frames etc. My only issue is that if I let the video play completely to the end then everything locks up and I have to use the Task Manager to shut it down.

Anybody experience this issue?
Thanks in advance,
Dominic

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 2/25/2011, 10:37 AM

It's probably that particular video. If you render it to another format does the problem persist?

Dominatoruke wrote on 2/25/2011, 12:24 PM

I was hoping you were right but no such luck. The reason for converting to wmv format was because the Kodak Sport camera generates a mov file that when brought into MS doesn't normally play the audio. I loaded the orignial mov file and when it reached the end it locked up just as it did with the wmv file.

musicvid10 wrote on 2/25/2011, 12:33 PM

What version of Vegas?
What Quicktime Player version?
(These are important)

Have you tried renaming your .mov extension to .mp4 as described in this thread?
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=687896

Dominatoruke wrote on 2/25/2011, 1:55 PM

I tried re-naming the file but the results were the same.

I have Vegas Movie Studio HD Plantinum, Version 10, Build 179
Quicktime is 7.6.9 (1680.9)

Thanks for your efforts to help.

knockatoone wrote on 2/25/2011, 2:22 PM

I hate to even bring up this subject but here goes - There is a fix for VNS 9 & 10 that requires you "increase" the amount of ram the program can use - seems many freezes especially in rendering are casued by "ram Starvation" = my term. Let me say that I do not understand all I know about this subject !! but if you have not tried the "2 gig cap" fix you probably ought to (assume you are running 32 bit windows) - it is out lined in this forum in a number of places - for both VNS 9 & 10. My experience is that it really does smooth things out, actually speeds up rendering and eliminates most freezes. You need to have at least 4 gig of Ram in your machine and be in a 32 gig envirnment for it to help. If you strike out finding it I will try to look for it - it seems to move round a bit ??... K

Dominatoruke wrote on 2/25/2011, 2:42 PM

Thanks for the reply Kochatoone. My pc is a few years old runing XP Home edition and I'm not running on a 32-bit platform. I only have 512MB RAM but I'm not doing anything sophisticated here. This same machine has handled anything video related I've done in the past using Pinacle Studio 9 and as I mentioned the trial version of Vegas Movie Studio 10 worked just fine. I've never had anything hang or freeze during the rendering process. My issue is simply that after bringing a video into Vegas and hitting the play buttom to let it play start to finish, it will freeze after it has reached the end of the video.

knockatoone wrote on 2/25/2011, 3:14 PM

Understand - I am amazed you are doing so well with so little ram -I have no suggestions but give it some time and one fo the smart guys will come along with some suggestions. K