It is happening with a paticular project file. I am using Win 98 SE. The problem is happening when I try to zoom out full. I have been able to render the file, but I would like to go in and make changes. I have also tried to save as a new file name and the same problem occurs.

Thanks for the help.

Rich

Just as an experiment ... load the project and remove the first event (DO NOT SAVE!), then see if you can zoom out without crashing. If it crashes, reload and remove the second event .... repeat until it doens't crash (assuming that at some point removing an event keeps it from crashing).

If you find an even you can remove and have Vegas not crash, then probably that event was corrupted. Can you recapture/recreate that event?

Thanks Chienworks, I will give that a try and see if it works.

I tried removing tracks and it still crashes. The good news is that I have a saved file from the night before. The bad news is that I think I may have lost all of yesterdays work. Is there any way to retrieve yesterdays work. Also, what do you think may have caused this. This happened without warning. This is a major concern of mine, for I will have paying clients comming in and it will be very difficult and costly to loose projects like this. I was lucky on this one for this was an in house test run on music video's. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks:

Rich Krents
EOP Recording Co.

I've never heard of that happening. Are all of the media the same format?

Perhaps it is a driver bug with the video card? There is a known problem with some video cards in the "placement" tab of the text generator, for example. The fix for that is to turn off (or down) the hardware acceleration for your video card. Perhaps the same fix would help this problem. Good luck.

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L o n g response...

I had a couple weird "corrupt" events in a project once. I have a fast system, huge hard drive capacity and lots of RAM, and otherwise Windows XP and Vegas Video are rock solid. So hardware, OS wise not likely what happened.

Instead of deleting events one after the other, not a option in my case, I'm talking hundreds of events, I isolated the "corrupt" events by identifying which ones they were. I doubt this is a "bug" in the true sense of the word by when I'm working on a unsually complex project where I have several video tracks and a half a dozen or more audio tracks with envelopes where I've added a considerable number of points to the events I discovered that during playback every once in a great while VV will hang after generating the can't mix audio... message.

If that happens it seems the TRACK not necessarially a particular event somehow gets corrupt. In my situation I had the audio on one track go way out of synch. I mean minutes out of synch! I found the "bad" track by one at a time muting the other tracks until I found the one that went bad.

The fix was actually simple. I just created a new audio track, dropped the entire contents of the bad track on to it and bang, no more out of synch or errors reported.

Don't know if it will work for you, still passing along what I ran this only once and it was only once. Go figure.