VMS locks up everytime

ohouse wrote on 1/9/2008, 4:19 PM
I just purchased Sony Vegas 6.0 Movie Studio about two weeks ago. not the latest version I know but it was at a good price.

It has worked great for me up until today. Now when I try to either save a project or render a video the whole application just locks up. I have tryed everything I can think of to fix this.

I tryed to make a whole new test project with just a samll little avi file. No help

I completely uninstalled and reinstalled. No help

I completely uninstalled and reinstalled to another drive that had tons of free disk space. No help.

What on my system could be causing this type of problem?

Please HELP. I am on a very important project which is now dead in the water because of this problem.

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Eugenia wrote on 1/9/2008, 4:45 PM
Vista or XP? Vista doesn't work well with the old version of Vegas.
ohouse wrote on 1/9/2008, 5:23 PM
this is XP
Eugenia wrote on 1/9/2008, 5:30 PM
Is VMS works correctly when you simply edit your footage? Does it only freeze when you save projects and render? Do you try to save project/renderings on a different hard drive, a drive that you possibly have no write access as a user? Or are you an admin of the system?
ohouse wrote on 1/9/2008, 6:26 PM
From what I can see everything works fine as far as editing. It only runs into problems when I try to open an existing project, save a project, or try to render a video.

This is a stand alone xp Dell computer. It has an internal ide drive and an external usb drive. I have uninstalled and reinstalled on each of these drives. Same results.

Not sure if this has anything to do with it but yesterday I was having some problems with the RIVA encoder was locking up on me also. Doing a complete uninstall and reinstall of it cured that. I have used VMS several times since that happened.

I have also run diagnostics on both hard drives with no problems or errors found. I am totally stumped, and frustrated. I know this has to be something in my environment but if you could tell me what it is I will gladly get rid of it. All other applications appear to be running fine on my computer and my login user has full administator rights
Eugenia wrote on 1/9/2008, 7:06 PM
Ok, try this: do not use the external USB drive for anything related to Vegas. In fact, temporarily remove the USB drive. Create a new project on C:\ only with all the footage and editing and saving happening on the C internal drive. See if that cures the problem.
ohouse wrote on 1/9/2008, 7:37 PM
Yes thank you that appears to work. Is there known problems with using this on USB drives?

The problem I have now is there is not enough room on the internal C: drive for all these videos but that of course is not your concern.
Eugenia wrote on 1/9/2008, 8:36 PM
Ok, do the following:
1. If you had installed USB specific drivers for your drive that came with it, uninstall them. Let the XP drivers take care of the drive, not buggy third party manufacturer drivers.
2. Look for a firmware upgrade of your motherboard's BIOS and for your USB driver's. I am pretty sure that's one of the two is the culprit actually.

If nothing works, buy another drive. If the same thing happens, buy another PC with a different BIOS. Re-installing Windows won't help in that case.
ohouse wrote on 1/11/2008, 9:49 AM
Thanks!