So, I have some Cineform HD encoded video that I have been playing around with in Vegas 7. I doubt this is an issue with the trial, but if it is, Sony should inform us about it ASAP. I am not upgrading to 8 at this stage.
Symptom: Add a Cineform HD encoded AVI to the Vegas 8 timeline. Result, Vegas 8 crashes instantly, no error message or anything. Instant death.
Edit: This seems to happen with 60i encoded video only at this stage. Looking into it some more.
Edit 2: More strange stuff... The AVIs were captured using Cineform NEO. If I try to open any of them in Vegas 8, it will crash instantly. Opening them in 7 is not a problem.
Here comes the weirdness. If I open one of them in Vegas 7 and render as Cineform Intermediate 60i, Vegas 7 will not re-compress the video, it will simply copy the video stream to the newly rendered AVI.
This AVI I can open in Vegas 8 no problem.
I am currently tempted to lay the entire blame on NEO, which I no longer use, so that is not going to be an issue.
Edit 3: Changed header to reflect that I now believe this to be a NEO issue.
Final edit (I think): This clearly appears to be a NEO issue. I have posted a bad (and the smallest I have) AVI on my website if you want to play around with it. This opens fine in Vegas 7, Windows Media Player, and others, but it crashes Vegas 8 instantly (at least on my PC). Note that there appears to be a couple of things wrong with this one, the aspect ratio is also set wrongly in the AVI. If you want to try it out, download this: http://terje.bergesen.info/v8-killer.avi
I'd be interested to see if anyone can find out what the issue is, just for my curiosity.
Now, I wouldn't mind if Vegas, when encountering a file like this, at least was graceful enough to reject it or something. The instant death doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me, but I realize this may not be a Vegas issue, but an codec DLL issue.
Symptom: Add a Cineform HD encoded AVI to the Vegas 8 timeline. Result, Vegas 8 crashes instantly, no error message or anything. Instant death.
Edit: This seems to happen with 60i encoded video only at this stage. Looking into it some more.
Edit 2: More strange stuff... The AVIs were captured using Cineform NEO. If I try to open any of them in Vegas 8, it will crash instantly. Opening them in 7 is not a problem.
Here comes the weirdness. If I open one of them in Vegas 7 and render as Cineform Intermediate 60i, Vegas 7 will not re-compress the video, it will simply copy the video stream to the newly rendered AVI.
This AVI I can open in Vegas 8 no problem.
I am currently tempted to lay the entire blame on NEO, which I no longer use, so that is not going to be an issue.
Edit 3: Changed header to reflect that I now believe this to be a NEO issue.
Final edit (I think): This clearly appears to be a NEO issue. I have posted a bad (and the smallest I have) AVI on my website if you want to play around with it. This opens fine in Vegas 7, Windows Media Player, and others, but it crashes Vegas 8 instantly (at least on my PC). Note that there appears to be a couple of things wrong with this one, the aspect ratio is also set wrongly in the AVI. If you want to try it out, download this: http://terje.bergesen.info/v8-killer.avi
I'd be interested to see if anyone can find out what the issue is, just for my curiosity.
Now, I wouldn't mind if Vegas, when encountering a file like this, at least was graceful enough to reject it or something. The instant death doesn't instill a lot of confidence in me, but I realize this may not be a Vegas issue, but an codec DLL issue.