VP9-64 Refuses to Play

JVRaines wrote on 6/17/2009, 12:39 PM

So I'm working on a simple NTSC 720x480 project, a VHS tape captured via ADVC110 card. It's about 35 minutes long. I will be editing away happily when suddenly the timeline play function stops working. I can click the button, or press F12, or SPACE or ENTER and the button animates to the depressed state but nothing happens in the preview window. Closing Vegas and reopening seems to fix the problem temporarily.

Anyone else run into this?

(My system info is in my profile.)

Comments

daryl wrote on 6/17/2009, 12:47 PM

Does it hang at the same place each time? Or does it run for about the same amount of time before it stops?

JVRaines wrote on 6/17/2009, 12:48 PM

Doesn't seem related to the content. It happens after about the same amount of editing. And Vegas is not hung up; it just won't play. It responds to other mouse and keyboard commands.

daryl wrote on 6/17/2009, 12:58 PM

too weird. Can you edit other projects, or do you have an earlier version of Vegas that you could test with?

JVRaines wrote on 6/17/2009, 1:36 PM

Yeah, I worked with a different project -- all stills and titles -- and didn't have any glitches at all.

Speaking of which, I am now seeing random black dots in my preview. <sigh> I wonder if I should try the 32-bit version instead. I don't have any earlier versions of Vegas.

daryl wrote on 6/17/2009, 1:45 PM

Very odd indeed. I'm curious, I know this is a weird suggestion, but try dropping the opacity on the video time-line by 2 or 4% (on each clip) and see what happens. A couple of weeks ago my VP9 was stopping at various times during a render. Some of the symptoms led me to try dropping the opacity and, it worked. Only had trouble with that one project. Your symptoms are not quite the same as mine, but give it a try, I'd be interested to see if it makes any difference.

rich__r wrote on 6/17/2009, 2:12 PM

You should be able to get 8.0c or 8.1 from here:

http://download.sonymediasoftware.com/current/

I think they should install and run as a trial so you can check out the behavior in an older version.

rich