V12 crashes lots, is V13 more stable?

Denicio wrote on 11/20/2014, 3:54 PM
I have recently edited a multi camera wedding I shot in Vegas Pro 12 and I experienced a lot more crashes that I can remember in years. Been with Vegas since the very beginning as I do part time editing. I will upgrade at times with no projects on the horizion but to upgrade at a discounted price. This is the first REAL multi camera shoot I have edited in V12 and found it questionably stable.

So, is spending the 250.00 for the upgrade to V13 worth it? Is it more stable, less crashy than Vegas 12?

Dennis

Comments

Grazie wrote on 11/20/2014, 4:00 PM
How's your System's health?

Grazie

Denicio wrote on 11/20/2014, 4:19 PM
Good health.

Although this weekend due to a gremlin or two (demo's of plug ins) I am reinstalling my OS.
PeterDuke wrote on 11/20/2014, 5:51 PM
I get the feeling that the general user reporting here finds V13 more stable than V12, but unfortunately stability may be tied up with computer hardware, competing software, video editing and plugin specifics that may make your experience different.

The best that you can do is try out V13 for a while and judge for yourself. Normally you cannot load a project created by a later version into an earlier version, but I think for some reason you may be able to do it for v13 into v12, but don't shoot me if I am wrong on that.
VideoFreq wrote on 11/22/2014, 10:35 PM
Dennis, you don't list your system specs in your profile so it is a bit more difficult to diagnose your system's ill, but.... I am 100% positive that either your CPU or GPU (video graphics card) is undersized. You had no problem until you added more video via a multi-cam set up to your timeline. This requires more HP, in both your CPU and GPU. If adding more video tracks to a timeline required no more processing power, then George Lucas and his Skywalker Ranch wasted a lot of money on their Rendering Farm. I had this very issue and upgraded my processor and video card. SVP 12 crashes very infrequently now. Always remember, there is generally nothing ever wrong with the software. Also, regarding upgrading to 13, it offers nothing significant. I will wait until SVP has a 4K, 10 bit render output. So many cams shoot in 4:2:2, 10 bit now, and darn near every phone shoots in 4K.
PeterDuke wrote on 11/23/2014, 4:18 PM
"I am 100% positive that either your CPU or GPU (video graphics card) is undersized" ...

If there were nothing wrong with the software, then under-powered processors would just take a long time to do the work. The program wouldn't crash.

Insufficient memory or disk space could cause a crash, but a well written program would give a clear report that this was the case before it exited gracefully.

However it is true that sufficiently stressing a program will find deficiencies that some other users may never find, and therefore make the program crash.

I will be so bold as to say that a perfect program running under a perfect operating system with perfect hardware and a perfect power supply will never crash.
Stringer wrote on 11/23/2014, 5:39 PM
I have found that V12 never crashes when I have GPU turned off..

Fortunately , my workflow is pretty simplistic; mostly archiving home videos to DVD or MP4..