VP13 hangs if I DEL media with Auto-Ripple enabled and playing video

yan-k wrote on 2/2/2019, 1:24 PM

This is an annoying issue.

Recently I started using the Auto-Ripple feature to speed up the process of pre-cut my footages. However I noticed that if I delete a chunk while it is playing sometimes Vegas will hang. The funniest part is that the program stops to respond but the sound continue playing normally. Anyway, when it happens the only way to heal the problem is to open task manager, kill the process (losing everything I did after my last save) and restart the program.

My system is modest (an i5 with 8GB of RAM) running W7-64 but I believe that this is not the culprit because I checked the performance in task manager when the program locks and it's always around the middle of used RAM and CPU resources. I also though that it could be caused because I was using an USB disk for editing and that perhaps it was causing some kind of bottleneck, but then I reorganized all my work space and moved the video stuff to a SATA internal drive but the problem persists. So again, I think that this is not also the reason.

I am now being careful to not forget to stop video playing before to delete chunks of media with Auto Ripple but I would like to know if this is a known issue or if there is something wrong with my setup.

Thanks!

Comments

john_dennis wrote on 2/2/2019, 1:38 PM

People have reported issues like this in the past. Turn off Auto Ripple and use Control + F after cuts.

Eagle Six wrote on 2/2/2019, 1:53 PM

@yan-k when this happens and you press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the blue screen options in Windows 7, instead of selecting Task Manager, select 'Cancel'. That will return you to the Vegas Pro screen and may (big MAY!) release what appears to be a crash, so you can save your work. Just an idea you may want to try next time if you haven't already.

yan-k wrote on 2/2/2019, 3:32 PM

People have reported issues like this in the past. Turn off Auto Ripple and use Control + F after cuts.

john_denis, thanks for the heads up! BTW, what the Control+F supposed to do? It doesn't do anything on my end...

@yan-k when this happens and you press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the blue screen options in Windows 7, instead of selecting Task Manager, select 'Cancel'. That will return you to the Vegas Pro screen and may (big MAY!) release what appears to be a crash, so you can save your work. Just an idea you may want to try next time if you haven't already.

Eagle Six, thanks for sharing this trick! I will try this when my VP hangs again!

EDIT: One minute after to post this message I "forced" the error to try the trick and it did NOT work for me. It was a good try though! ;-)

Eagle Six wrote on 2/2/2019, 3:50 PM

@yan-k oh well it was a long shot!

Ctrl+F is "Post-edit ripple affected tracks, bus tracks, markers, and regions". It works for me. Delete a section and press Ctrl+F and everything right of the deleted section should move left. Use it instead of the Auto-Ripple mode.

yan-k wrote on 2/2/2019, 3:54 PM

@yan-k oh well it was a long shot!

Ctrl+F is "Post-edit ripple affected tracks, bus tracks, markers, and regions". It works for me. Delete a section and press Ctrl+F and everything right of the deleted section should move left. Use it instead of the Auto-Ripple mode.

Oh, I had tried it after CUT and not after DEL. LoL! That's cool, I just tried it and it worked for me either. Thanks!

john_dennis wrote on 2/2/2019, 4:08 PM

500 pictures are worth two or three words...

yan-k wrote on 2/3/2019, 11:25 AM

500 pictures are worth two or three words...

Thank you very much!