Vegas 8.1 crashing... HELP!!!

Greg Cervantes wrote on 12/18/2008, 3:51 AM
Hows it going.

I've been having real issues as of late with 8.1.

I have a quad core vista 64x system with 8gigs of ram at 1066 and several raid arrays hooked up, and I am pulling from various locations to make this massive edit work. About 4tb.... but I have the same problem with smaller projects as well...

Anyway, 8.1 sometimes seems to crash when I load up a Vegas save that have video from different locations. Other times it crashes when I try and move a docked item, like my project explorer to a another location.

Simple things that shouldn't be giving me a problem.

I know I'm not really taxing the system that much because I'm not even adding effects (yet), and i've done way more in the past, but now for some reason it's very unstable.

I've spent the last two days fighting this problem and have gotten no place.

I have all the current updates for my os and even got rid of vista aero .

Is anyone else having issues and is there a solution.

Greg Cervantes
LMI FILMS

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xberk wrote on 12/18/2008, 9:09 PM
I've had problems myself and heard of other mysterious problems. The first thing I think of now is some media that Vegas cannot handle. It could even be an audio clip. Will other projects load and save ok in 8.1 for you? .. Can you create a simple project in 8.1 without any crashes? This media might work ok in 8.0c but not 8.1 due to lack of the right 64 bit codex. I'd try to narrow done the media that works and hopefully in the process find the media that is crashing Vegas at odd times.

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Greg Cervantes wrote on 12/19/2008, 12:27 AM
You know I thought that, but its acting weird on basic files I've imported via firewire. Oddly it sees stuff I imported from my black magic card just fine and thats uncompressed SDI. It's the basic miniDV files its not seeing right half the time... Other times it just crashes for the hell of it.

But like I said it was ok till about a week ago. I'm going to try and reinstall it, but I doubt that will work.

Sadly it makes me want to look towards other NLE's and I've been with Vegas since 2.0, infact our whole studio is Vegas, but the new version has given me nothing but problems.
srode wrote on 12/19/2008, 3:08 AM
Maybe try testing your memory with Memtest?
Greg Cervantes wrote on 12/19/2008, 10:17 PM
Did that and even did a mem defrag... And nothing...

But I did also installed 8.0c and now the problems gone. No crashes what so ever...

I guess 8.1 still have some bugs that need to be addressed.