Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.0 keeps crashing

JM_Wigand wrote on 2/2/2013, 6:35 PM

I haven't had Vegas for too long but I have made a couple of projects with it. However it does not like the current one and keeps crashing when I try to load it. If I reduce the pieces being displayed under "View," I can keep it from crashes when it tries to render the file.
I went for a unique approach with the project though, I have been rendering pieces of it and now I am reassembling them into one whole project and trying to render that. (Track motion on each section that involved different video sizes to avoid letterboxing; ended up with 29 pieces with perfect fits in most cases since I did not adjust aspect ratio) However now it crashes whenever I open this.
I thought one of the files was corrupted (still a possibility) but by renaming the source file folder I forced it to add files individually and worked fine. But when it came together, then it crashed. With the following error message:

Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.0
Version 9.0c (Build 30)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0xC3BCD0A3 IP:0x7D64F3C3
In Module 'ntdll.dll' at Address 0x7D600000 + 0x4F3C3
Thread: GUI ID=0xB5C Stack=0x2C6000-0x2E0000
Registers:
EAX=c3bcd0a3 CS=0023 EIP=7d64f3c3 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=002b ESP=002c6270 EBP=002c62a8
ECX=7efdd000 DS=002b ESI=c3bcd09b FS=0053
EDX=7d6a0100 ES=002b EDI=75b87164 GS=002b
Bytes at CS:EIP:
7D64F3C3: 39 18 0F 84 60 1E FD FF 9...`...
7D64F3CB: 89 45 DC 8B 08 89 4D D8 .E....M.
Stack Dump:
002C6270: 7D4D8E1B 7D4C0000 + 18E1B (kernel32.dll)
002C6274: 75B84048 75970000 + 214048
002C6278: 7D4D8EBE 7D4C0000 + 18EBE (kernel32.dll)
002C627C: 002C9388 001E0000 + E9388
002C6280: 7D61F218 7D600000 + 1F218 (ntdll.dll)
002C6284: 7D4D8E1B 7D4C0000 + 18E1B (kernel32.dll)
002C6288: C3BCD09B
002C628C: 00000000
002C6290: 7D4D8D51 7D4C0000 + 18D51 (kernel32.dll)
002C6294: 002C5E68 001E0000 + E5E68
002C6298: 002C9388 001E0000 + E9388
002C629C: 7D61F218 7D600000 + 1F218 (ntdll.dll)
002C62A0: 7D621210 7D600000 + 21210 (ntdll.dll)
002C62A4: 00000000
002C62A8: 002C62FC 001E0000 + E62FC
002C62AC: 153B7AD0 15380000 + 37AD0 (WMVDECOD.dll)
> 002C62C0: 153A8658 15380000 + 28658 (WMVDECOD.dll)
> 002C62D0: 153973B3 15380000 + 173B3 (WMVDECOD.dll)
> 002C62E0: 15398A85 15380000 + 18A85 (WMVDECOD.dll)
> 002C6300: 15398B2E 15380000 + 18B2E (WMVDECOD.dll)
> 002C630C: 1538B2D4 15380000 + B2D4 (WMVDECOD.dll)
> 002C6330: 15390A16 15380000 + 10A16 (WMVDECOD.dll)
> 002C6348: 007D11D8 00400000 + 3D11D8 (VegasMovieStudioHD90.exe)
002C634C: 5ADC5640 5A810000 + 5B5640
002C6350: 00000005
002C6354: 00000000
002C6358: 00000000
> 002C635C: 151234A0 15110000 + 134A0 (WMVCore.DLL)
> 002C6438: 151BB511 15110000 + AB511 (WMVCore.DLL)
> 002C64D0: 7D6349F7 7D600000 + 349F7 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C64D4: 7D634A4C 7D600000 + 34A4C (ntdll.dll)
> 002C64F8: 7D634EE7 7D600000 + 34EE7 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C64FC: 7D634F80 7D600000 + 34F80 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C651C: 7D61F218 7D600000 + 1F218 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C6520: 7D634A50 7D600000 + 34A50 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C652C: 7D61F7AC 7D600000 + 1F7AC (ntdll.dll)
> 002C653C: 0066000C 00400000 + 26000C (VegasMovieStudioHD90.exe)
002C6540: 00301640 002E0000 + 21640
002C6544: 5A810000 5A810000 + 0
002C6548: 0B260A58 0B0B0000 + 1B0A58
002C654C: 056E00A4 05650000 + 900A4
> 002C6558: 00CFA000 00400000 + 8FA000 (VegasMovieStudioHD90.exe)
002C655C: 00307A00 002E0000 + 27A00
002C6560: 00000020
002C6564: 09035DF8 08E60000 + 1D5DF8
002C6568: 00000000
> 002C6588: 7D61F218 7D600000 + 1F218 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C658C: 7D634A50 7D600000 + 34A50 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C6594: 7D634A4C 7D600000 + 34A4C (ntdll.dll)
> 002C65A0: 7D61F7D4 7D600000 + 1F7D4 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C65AC: 7D61F768 7D600000 + 1F768 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C65B0: 7D61F7AC 7D600000 + 1F7AC (ntdll.dll)
> 002C65C0: 7D61F7AC 7D600000 + 1F7AC (ntdll.dll)
> 002C65E8: 7D62157B 7D600000 + 2157B (ntdll.dll)
> 002C65EC: 7D61F7AC 7D600000 + 1F7AC (ntdll.dll)
> 002C65F4: 77BD2B0A 77BA0000 + 32B0A (msvcrt.dll)
> 002C6604: 1183E7BB 11820000 + 1E7BB (wmadmod.dll)
> 002C660C: 77BD762D 77BA0000 + 3762D (msvcrt.dll)
> 002C6614: 1183E7CD 11820000 + 1E7CD (wmadmod.dll)
> 002C6640: 7D61F7AC 7D600000 + 1F7AC (ntdll.dll)
> 002C6650: 77BD2B3D 77BA0000 + 32B3D (msvcrt.dll)
> 002C6670: 77BCB04A 77BA0000 + 2B04A (msvcrt.dll)
> 002C6678: 7D61F218 7D600000 + 1F218 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C667C: 7D61F7B0 7D600000 + 1F7B0 (ntdll.dll)
> 002C6684: 7D61F7AC 7D600000 + 1F7AC (ntdll.dll)
> 002C6688: 77BBCFDB 77BA0000 + 1CFDB (msvcrt.dll)
> 002C669C: 1530B270 15110000 + 1FB270 (WMVCore.DLL)
> 002C66B0: 1512CE00 15110000 + 1CE00 (WMVCore.DLL)
> 002C66BC: 151BB9B8 15110000 + AB9B8 (WMVCore.DLL)
> 002C66C8: 151BBA7B 15110000 + ABA7B (WMVCore.DLL)
> 002C6710: 1530B270 15110000 + 1FB270 (WMVCore.DLL)
> 002C6724: 7D5600E0 7D4C0000 + A00E0 (kernel32.dll)
> 002C673C: 151BBCE2 15110000 + ABCE2 (WMVCore.DLL)
> 002C6778: 151BBF74 15110000 + ABF74 (WMVCore.DLL)

Any ideas? Any further information needed?

I suppose I could try and make three separate videos since it has three subtopics but I'd prefer this to be one long nearly 15 minute video that would fit Youtube's policy on maximum video length.

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 2/3/2013, 8:28 AM

Kernel errors can be serious. Sometimes a glitch, sometimes worse.

-- Before doing anything, do a thorough system backup.
-- Run chkdsk
-- See the Windows hotfix for wmvdecod crashes here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979127

JM_Wigand wrote on 2/3/2013, 11:34 AM

chkdsk shows no problems.

I have Windows XP SP3. That wmvdecod crash sounds the same though. Maybe I should post my error message over there and see if they think a similar hotfix could be applied to XP.

Thanks.

JM_Wigand wrote on 2/4/2013, 6:05 PM

I've been posting in the Windows forums and trying what they recommended. Uninstalling and reinstalling failed to work. Just as restarting the computer doesn't tend to work.

Is there an update to Vegas Movie Studio HD 9.0 that might fix this? I'm using 9.0c (build 30) at the moment. Seems the most up to date.

Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/4/2013, 8:05 PM

So you're saying that you have no trouble starting new projects but you can't open this old one?

If so, what are the project properties of this old project? What model of camcorder did your video come from and what format and resolution is it?

How fast is your processor and how much RAM do you have? How much free space is on your C drive?

When did you last go to Windows Update and manually download the non-critical updates?

JM_Wigand wrote on 2/5/2013, 9:53 PM

Your questions made go back and try again to see if I could get things to work. I managed to render some files together as a test. I think it is working better now that I've uninstalled and reinstalled a few times. So it must be that project that is crashing Vegas. I thought it was a deeper problem. I tried to weed out corrupt files with a renaming of the source file and adding them back in piece by piece to see which one would crash it. None of them did so until after I started to render them.

I think I'm going to keep adding and dropping files and starting a render. If it doesn't work, I know that portion must have the corrupt file. If it does work then I know I haven't included a corrupted file. That will take a lot of trial and error but meh. Do you have any ideas for how to weed out corrupt files besides that?

Video and audio were WMV files. 29. I think rendering that many pieces was asking for trouble and made some corrupt in their rendering process.

52 GB free space on the C drive, dual core 2.20 GHz with 2GB RAM.

I'll check for updates, that could help in any case. Thanks for your help. You pushed me to check it again to try and work it out. Maybe I'll be able to post that this is all resolved soon.

JM_Wigand wrote on 3/3/2013, 3:19 PM

In the month that has passed, I have rendered other projects.

This one still won't work. Despite my having changed it drastically and having rebuilt it. I'm guessing its allergic to some file type but I've been converting files to try and fix this and still no luck.

People keep telling me WMV files are stable but I believe those are what are screwing it all up. So I'm going to convert them to AVI files and see if that works.

Some files appear in the timeline pink tinged. Is that Vegas telling me those files are corrupted? If this is an issue of corruption (and it seems to be since I've moved the files to new projects and they still crash), how do I fix it?