Yes, this has been fixed for the Vegas Video Beta and will be fixed
in Vegas Video and Vegas Audio when they are released. We replace
dangerouse characters with an underscore in the filename. You can
still use them in the scribble strip.

For posterity, try to avoid these characters in Vegas Pro 1.0
scribble strips, as well:

/\:*?"|

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Regards,
Jason.

Charles de Montebello wrote:
>>Yeah - this took me a while to figure out too. I would name my
>>scribble strip v/o and then it would crash. Vegas 2.0 seems to have
>>solved this...
>>
>>John Quarantillo wrote:
>>>>Don't know if this applies to MAC, but definitely an issue
>>>>with PC users.
>>>>
>>>>Be CAREFUL what you 'scribble' when naming tracks...
>>>>
>>>>If you use a slash, you will CRASH! Vegas attempts to save
>>>>the .wav files using the text in the scribble strips as
>>>>filenames. I'm not sure what other characters are illegal,
>>>>but slashes will kill you.
>>>>
>>>>SF - Please put a simple validation of the strings typed
>>>>into the scribble strips. After I started crashing
>>>>repeatedly, I uninstalled and re-installed both my hardware
>>>>and software before realizing that Vegas was crashing
>>>>because I had a slash in a scribble strip. Save others the
>>>>hassle!!!