Vegas crashing & media manager

Laurence wrote on 4/17/2006, 12:58 PM
I am having no end of problems with Vegas today. It won't swap files properly from Gearshift, it will crash in the middle of renders, I come back after several hours of rendering and low and behold, Vegas isn't even running anymore. Anyway this is all recent and I suspect it is because when I installed the latest build of Acid 6, it reinstalled the hated (at least I hate it) Sony media manager. What is the best way to delete media manager, and is there any way to keep it from installing in the first place?

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winrockpost wrote on 4/17/2006, 1:04 PM
do you have it turned off ? in preferences
winrockpost wrote on 4/17/2006, 1:10 PM
under add or remove programs it is listed as a seperate program,, dont know if thats the best way to get rid of it, but its a way
Grazie wrote on 4/17/2006, 2:30 PM
it will crash in the middle of renders,

. . check them fans!! Dust? Fur?

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Laurence wrote on 4/17/2006, 2:45 PM
When I try replacing the proxies with the m2t files, some of the clips are not changed. There are red blocks in their place after Vegas tries filling in the thumbnails. If I try to do a search to find these clips, Vegas crashes. The red blocks fill whatever clips are drawn last. If I have the preview section set to the end, early clips will be red, if I view the whole thing at once, the red will be at the end. I kept trying and finally got the whole thing to swap out, then I saved it as a new project file. Now when I render, it either crashes with a lockup, or Vegas just disappears. Up until today Vegas has been pretty solid, but today I simply can't make it work no matter what I try!
Laurence wrote on 4/17/2006, 6:33 PM
I think you may be on to something Grazie with checking the cooling fan for dust and furballs. I did a temperature check of the CPU and it was around 60 degrees C which translates into about a 140 degrees F!
Grazie wrote on 4/17/2006, 11:08 PM
I ain't no programmer or IT expert - THAT'S a given! However, and having MPEG rendering crashes, and a diagnosis by our own JR, who was using the very same MOBO, he said I should look at the CPU fan, the Power Pack fan/s and the main tower input fans and ducts, I showed him some "gory" photos . . . he laughed!

Long story short, I got out my Panasonic vacuum cleaner; made a gadget out of a funnel and some soft tubing and went to work.

Mpegs rendered without the PC making a murmur and Vegas and everything swings along as it should - job done!

Grazie
Laurence wrote on 4/18/2006, 10:45 AM
Well I've found my problem and started a new thread about it. Vegas seems to become unstable when you put a whole bunch of HDV m2t clips on the timeline all at once. I am going to clean out the fans and heatsinks, but Vegas handling of multiple m2t files is my current problem.