Multiple Crashes

Souperintendent wrote on 6/3/2012, 10:18 PM
Hello,

When I edit my videos, I use many different large, high quality video files. When I try to browse through them in the Project Media tab, the software crashes. This is the only consistent time I've been able to reproduce the crash, but it also crashes at random.

It also seems that whenever I try to render my video, the software crashes as well.

This is, of course, an extreme inconvenience, and I cannot tell what's wrong. Any help in remedying the situation would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Technical info:

Software: Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 (Version 9.0, Build 92)
OS: Windows 7 64-bit

EDIT: Seems I have found a solution. I was trying to render the video in a .wmv format, so I tried .avi and that worked. Still, this is a major issue.

EDIT 2: Spoke too soon. Now I'm getting a generic error message saying that it couldn't render.

Comments

MSmart wrote on 6/3/2012, 11:40 PM
More info is needed in your video files. The version of QuickTime you have loaded could be an issue too.

This thread should help you on both accounts:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=774461
Souperintendent wrote on 6/4/2012, 12:14 AM
More info? What do you mean?

I downloaded the latest QuickTime, so how would I download an earlier one?

Here's the error I am now getting:

http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo66/Dimentio343/Error.jpg
MSmart wrote on 6/4/2012, 2:47 AM
What I meant to say is "about" your video files. That is, what video type/format are they. MediaInfo is a good application for getting that.

I'm not sure where you can get an earlier version of QT but it's probably out there on the net somewhere. However, if you've also using a newer version of iTunes, you'll have to uninstall that and reinstall an older version as well. I'll bet you don't want to do that though.

You may have to bite the bullet and upgrade to a newer version of VMS. You can download a free trial and use it for 30-days to get you through this project.

For the error, does the disk drive you're saving to have enough space? AVI files take up 13GB per hour of video. I'm on XP and haven't used Win7 yet so I can't help you there. However, I do know that If it's a permission issue, you could trying running VMS as Administrator to see if that helps.
chulaivet1966 wrote on 6/4/2012, 11:46 AM
I'm on my first cup of coffee and maybe not thinking clearly yet.

But, is is possible VMS 9.0 (which is what I use) is not compatible with 64 bit?
Is some other component in your system not liking 64 bit?

I found these links which touch on it:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Vegas-Studio-Platinum-VERSION/product-reviews/B001CPHTAQ

http://www.videoforums.co.uk/sony-vegas-media-studio/30282-vegas-movie-studio-platinum-64-bit.html

Hope that helps....more coffee for me.
Crawdaddy79 wrote on 6/4/2012, 6:40 PM
I had tons of crashes with VMS 9 - primarily when trying to render 1080p video; if my video was longer than a few minutes, it would crash. Sometimes I'd get an error, sometimes I would just be looking at my desktop, sometimes it would simply stop rendering mid-clip (usually at a transition) until I hard-closed VMS.

I had to make videos in "chunks" in order to produce anything, which was a complete PITA. It would typically crash when RAM usage broke 1.1 GB.

I upgraded from WinXP 32 bit to Win 7 64 bit hoping that it would resolve the issue. It did not.

Sony has a decent upgrade discount; I highly recommend VMS 11. It's been incredibly stable and my hair has started to grow back ever since I upgraded.

EDIT: I should add that VMS 11 will render your VMS 9 project files just fine (at least it did for me, and ultimately is what sold me), and the trial edition doesn't put any watermarks on it, so there's no reason to not give it a shot. If it still crashes, then something else is wrong.