V8a crashes every time on 32bit colour

bdg wrote on 10/26/2007, 2:13 PM
Converting my old projects to 32 bit floating point causes them to crash when I try to render to mpg.
Every time!
With 2 projects (so far tried) that render fine in 8bit.
One of them actually crashed the first time when I clicked OK on the Project box after selecting 32bit, but now it just waits until I try to render as mpg and then instantly crashes V8a.

note: it's only V8a that crashes, no BSOD.

Is this a known bug and should I report it?

System: Core 2 6600 2.4Gc/s, 2G RAM, Xp sp2, 3064M page file.
Only V8a running, no other apps.
One other note: No actual movie footage, I only use pan and scan on still photos, and this is not HD just good old dvd.

Comments

Cliff Etzel wrote on 10/26/2007, 2:41 PM
If I remember correctly - there is an issue with very large still images file sizes in Vegas.

Cliff Etzel
bluprojekt
bdg wrote on 10/26/2007, 4:00 PM
Ahh, that would do it. Some of my images are png's of 6528 x 2282pixels x 32bits
Wonder when they will fix this.
I'd better send them an email I suppose, one of the advantages of the upgrade from 7 to 8 was 32 bit colour.
rmack350 wrote on 10/26/2007, 5:44 PM
Of course you should report it. The program is crashing.

Rob Mack
rmack350 wrote on 10/26/2007, 5:52 PM
You know, there's 32-bits overall, and then there's 32bits/channel (which makes 128-bit uncompressed AVIs, if you're interested in something unusable).

Plain old PNG files with alpha are 32-bit images, and vegas handles them just fine in 8-bit/channel mode (8 bits/channel x 4 channels = 32 bits)

So are you sure you really need to run Vegas in 32-bit mode?

BTW, I was just hearing today that PPro CS3 gives you a stern warning if you try to bring in an image over 4k pixels wide. Smart on their part, they just take away all the sharp objects so you don't get hurt.

Rob Mack
farss wrote on 10/26/2007, 6:01 PM
If you've got lots of large stills I've found turning off thumbnails and waveforms might save the day.

Bob.
rmack350 wrote on 10/26/2007, 6:06 PM
By the way, a 3 gig page file seems pretty darned big to me...