Why? I've seen others that have 64-bit W7 and don't seem to have a problem.

However, this fix may need to be applied:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=697122

Yes, Ivan? Why? You don't "need" Vegas Pro, Sony "need" to release a 64 bit version.

Highly misleading answer.

Hi Stuart, VMSP10 runs fine with HDV on my Win7 64 machine, but there have been a lot of reports elsewhere of problems with HDV capture - do your clips play nicely in Window Media Player?

What happenss when you try to load the clip into the trimmer? Does that crash too?

Hi

Sorry for abandoning this thread after making it, I have been away on holiday.
Thanks also for all the suggestions.

I have still had no luck in managing to import the wedding footage onto the timeline in VMS 10. It plays perfectly well in both Windows Media Player and also the trimmer in VMS. However as soon as I try to drag clips onto the timeline it says it has stopped working.

I tried editing footage from my new HD flip camera yesterday and that worked fine although it wasnt a very long series of clips.

I have also edited the clips that from the wedding that I imported in VMS on Adobe Premiere CS4 without any problems whatsoever. I bought VMS as I wanted a quick way of editing my films without haveing to get too complicated in Premiere. However it is looking like I will have to go down the complicated route now unless Sony release a patch or I can fix it myself.

I will give that fiix a try that MSmart mentions tonight and see what happens.

So...

it works in the trimmer, but not when dragged to the timeline for long files. It appears to work with short files (is that correct?). How big are the "long" files (time/MB)?

I have managed to get it to load a couple of short clips into the timeline before but it won't take the big ones. The big ones are pretty big, about 5gb+ for the clip that contains the wedding speeches.

It often crashes even when dragging a few short 10 second clips in.

The only videos I have managed to edit so far have been 720p vids from my flip HD. It is the 1080i HDV videos from the wedding that are casuing the problems.

Do you think my 2.4ghz Core2Duo is up to the task? I am beginning to think I might have to upgrade to an i7 in order to edit our wedding video.

Any chance that you have a large file just under 4 GB that works?

Perhaps try splitting the file using an alternative software to split it (or converting the original file using a free converter program).

StuCutting, the fact your computer has a 2.4GHz Core2Duo processor has nothing to do with Vegas crashing. Upgrading to an i7 will not help in that regard. Whatever the problem, it is not Intel's fault.

I ran into this problem and found that mpeg video is prone to stream errors of various types. I found a utility called mpeg2repair.exe that not only repairs mpegs but also gives a report of what it did.

I have just about completed my granddaughter's wedding video and I found you want to break up the project into separate projects no longer than about 40 minutes or so. Assemble them later in a final project. Capture in smaller segments and you may well find that some of the segments have "glitches" of some kind. Once you have glitch free HDV files you will probably have stable editing.

Thanks for all the advice. I will the mpeg repair app a try and see how that goes.

Also if I was to convert the clips into a different type, what would you recommend I change them too and what program would you say is the best to do it?

The annoying thing is that I can edit all the import and render all the files in Premiere Pro CS4 but I bought VMS 10 as I am not really familiar with Premiere as it is pretty complicated (it just came with my Creative Suite Package).