Vegas movie studio 9 freezes or gives me an error

Spartins1988 wrote on 11/26/2011, 11:28 PM
i purchased vegas movie studio 9 a few years back and didnt have a single problem with the program until this summer. the prgram will usually freeze when im scrolling through my project media bin and up top will say not responding. then if i click anywhere in the program it will turn white. then i usually exit it out and windows will say its searching for a solution but it never ends up doing it.

other times i get an error message. the one that says an exception has occurred. and that usually happens when im either trimming a clip or going through my media bin. so i click okay and the program shuts down. sometimes i wait a few minutes to an hour before restarting sony vegas but it for the most part doesnt matter how long i wait the program will still freeze or give me and error message shortly after opening the program. i've tried upping the RAM which does nothing and ive reinstalled the program but that does nothing either.

i have noticed though that the fewer clips i have in my project bin less the program will crash.but this type of video i'm working on requires all the clips i have in there which is i think about 50.

is there anything i can do to get this to stop?

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/27/2011, 8:13 AM
What model of camcorder is your footage coming from and which format is it?

Which properties settings are you using in your Vegas project?

What is your operating system, how fast is your processor and how much clean, defragmented free space is on your C drive?
MSmart wrote on 11/27/2011, 11:04 AM
yep, what type cam?

I bet you changed from a SD cam to HD and you're finding out that v9 doesn't work well with HD. If so, you may need to upgrade VMS to 11.
Spartins1988 wrote on 11/28/2011, 3:08 PM
the clips were downloaded not from a camera. i never had a problem with them before until this summer. i put my ram up to 1024. and im using windows 7. and im not sure about the rest. its probably whatever was set when i first installed it on my computer.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/29/2011, 7:13 AM
Open a clip of your video in Media Info (a free download) and then post the specs --especially the video and audio codec, frame rate and dimensions. With that info, we can decide how to proceed, or if this video is going to work at all in this editor.

Meantime -- are you seriously trying to edit video on a Windows 7 machine with only 1 gig of RAM?! You might seriously want to consider quadrupling that. Especially if you're using Windows 7 64-bit.
Spartins1988 wrote on 12/26/2011, 3:12 PM
well its not one clip its several of them about 60 of them so i figured maybe thats why its running so slow and and i have 400 gb's on my computer and only used about 50 or 60 gbs of it.