Vegas Crashing - Memory Issues?

Gede wrote on 3/28/2009, 3:13 AM
Hi,

I have Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, and a Sanyo Xacti HD1000

Today I shot in 1920x1080 and I dropped 30 clips of about a few seconds each on the timeline, and I get errors when I want to render the movie.

I have noticed it with 720p also, but only rarely, deleting some clips helps. But with 1080p I deleted already so many of the about 60 clips I wanted to use, Vegas is simply not usable anymore. (I now convert all the clips with TMPGenc to 720p high bitrate wmv files, maybe I can edit it like that in Vegas)

The error message sometimes says something about memory, sometimes not, but quits.

I run Vista SP1 32bits, with 4gb of ram on an Dell XPS M1730. (Core2 Extreme 2.8ghz)

What can I do to make Vegas work? Or is it simply a bug?

Thanks...

(BTW, I wanted to render 720p 6m wmv)

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Gede wrote on 3/28/2009, 6:29 AM
Ok, now have all the 1080p clips in 720p wmv format.

Put 20 short movies on the timeline.

Vegas memory use goes to over 1gig, and hangs.

It now says, "Not Responding", but started off earlier with, "could not determine audio stream"

Ok.

What to do?

(never noticed this before, always did smaller things I guess)
Gede wrote on 3/28/2009, 8:17 PM
Well, I used another program to stitch my clips (1920x1080 60fps from Sanyo Xacti) together, and this program only uses 300mb of memory for stitching the same clips, while Vegas uses 1 gb of memory for the same thing, and hangs.

If I use the stitched file (HDV mpeg 720p) of 1 gig in Vegas, Vegas uses only 300mb of memory....

In my situation, Vegas Movie Studio is simply not usable for editing more than a few minutes(!) of 1920x1080 60fps from the Sanyo Xacti.

If I use 720p 30fps from the Xacti, I can do upto about 8-10 minutes, but I never tried more than that.

Sad.

Even sadder is the answer to this in the Knowledge base. Sort of like : Use fewer clips, stitch them, and then load those again, to stitch.

Unless there is something strange on my PC, it is just bad memory management by Movie studio. :(



Ivan Lietaert wrote on 3/28/2009, 10:45 PM
Many people report problems here when working with full hd avchd files. It is a but. Sony keeps silent about it...

edit:
sorry for the typo, I meant 'bug' instead of 'but'.

Gede wrote on 3/29/2009, 9:18 PM
Well, I used TMPGEnc to convert al the clips to 1920x1080 a 32000bs BluRay mpgs and used them to put together a movie with Movie Studio 9. Together 1gb of clips resulting in about 4 minutes of timeline. Vegas uses only about 300mb of memory and about 660mb while rendering.

I guess thats the way to go, but it didn't try a timeline large than this one yet. I suppose this needs to be done for my future EOS 5DmkII clips as well. First convert them to another fileformat which Vegas REALLY can handle..

The same "bug" seems to be present in Vegas PRO versions....