Vegas Continually Crashing

greeches wrote on 9/18/2014, 12:20 PM
Footage source was BMPCC RAW.

Converted it to the following for testing:

H.264 mov wrapper
ProresHQ 422 mov wrapper
1080 DNxHD 220mb/10-bit mov wrapper

The h.264 and prores stop giving me a preview (only black screen) after a short time of use. Very frustrating.

The DNxHD plays decently, but vegas freezes and crashes after trying to integrate any additional footage.

Project Details:
7 Audio tracks/2 video tracks
NO FX
2 keyframe zooms
vegas resample off
under 4 minutes
Preview half resolution

I have tried:

Cuda disable preview (reboot)
Cuda enabled preview (reboot)
Rebooted machine
tried every combo of preview/Full/half/auto adjust...etc
Uninstalled newwest quicktime and re-installed 7.5 (seemed to help quite a bit at first)

What can this be? I feel like it is related to Quicktime....

Anything would be helpful! It is extremely frustrating to not be able to continue my edit!

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 9/18/2014, 9:35 PM
> "What can this be? I feel like it is related to Quicktime...."

You're probably right. Unless you are on a Mac (which I assume you're not if you are using Vegas Pro) you should NOT be converting your footage to QuickTime.

Try converting to Sony MXF using one of the HD422 1920x1080 50Mbps templates. You will have a much smoother editing experience.

~jr
greeches wrote on 9/23/2014, 3:30 PM
Good idea. Will do this on the next one!

Got it to be... "kinda stable" by converting all of the clips to a DNxHD 422 220Mb/1080p wrapped in quicktime.

The preview has gotten very stable now, but vegas itself will freeze and lock up randomly.

I really really LOVE Vegas, but this is really making me want to switch to CC, which I already own, but don't use for editing....
redpaw wrote on 9/24/2014, 3:40 AM
I think there must be something wrong with vegas vs prores...
vegas crashes for me every time i'm trying to import prores files from BMPC...
i can import ~130 files in HD and about 30 in 4K... but when trying to add more it just freezes.

they're 'looking into it'... so waiting for the next update... but not holding my breath. ;/
videoITguy wrote on 9/24/2014, 10:52 AM
When Vegas crashes repeatedly with sources - it tells you one thing that you are to grasp without the benefit of any error message diagnostics.

IT MEANS you have to convert the source to something else outside of the Vegas platform if you want any hope to work with the materials inside the Vegas environment.

I would make the statement that Vegas is very sensitive to what is put on the timeline - but you know that is true of every NLE out there.