Your crash dump looks exactly the same as in this thread reported by a couple of other users, but for BMP files.

MAJOR vv5 BUG: BMP images crash vv5

Unfortunately, we have yet to reproduce this problem here. Can you provide us with some additional information about your system, what other applications you have installed, etc. There is a list of questions in the above thread, I've listed them again below:

1. What version of DirectX do you have installed? (Start | Run | dxdiag will tell this)

2. Have you customized the Vegas layout in any way? If so, what have you changed?

3. What video card do you have? Driver version?

4. Have you tried lowering video acceleration? Use Control Panel | Display | Settings | Advanced and look around the various tabs for a hardware acceleration slider, try dropping it down to the next lower setting.

5. Are you running a non-English version of Win2K? If yes, what language are you using?

6) Right click on a bmp file- what is it set to open with by default?

7) What app (+ version) are you using to create the problem stills? Is this app on the Vegas machine?

8) What video plug-ins for Vegas do you have installed (list)

I had the exact same thing with a png, also created in PS7. To get the veg open, I renamed the png file so VV5 couldn't find it. I saved the png as a psd and replaced the png in VV5.
It's truly scary to watch VV5 fail to open a veg with a lot of work behind it, just glad it's not a hard work-around 'till Sony gets a fix for this.

Hello

Yes, I have the same problem at time to open a project created and saved in Vegas 5.0.

The project has inclued files with extensions *.BMP, *.AVI. *.TXT, *.JPG, *.FLASH, *.MP3. The project has many crossfades, texts, motions 3D planar, backgrounds, etc.

When I want to open the project show the next text:

Sony Vegas 5.0
Version 5.0a (Build 134)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x154 IP:0x4E38D7
In Module 'vegas50.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0xE38D7
Thread: GUI ID=0x6AC Stack=0x112000-0x130000
Registers:
EAX=001cabd0 CS=001b EIP=004e38d7 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=06fb60a0 SS=0023 ESP=001124bc EBP=00000002
ECX=00000154 DS=0023 ESI=00000000 FS=003b
EDX=00000154 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
004E38D7: 8B 32 89 74 24 28 8B 4A .2.t$(.J
004E38DF: 04 89 4C 24 2C 8B 42 08 ..L,.B.
Stack Dump:
001124BC: 00000007
001124C0: 00000000
001124C4: 058E88A8 058B0000 + 388A8
001124C8: 06FB60A0 06EC0000 + F60A0
001124CC: 00000000
001124D0: 06FB99C8 06EC0000 + F99C8
001124D4: 06FB93A8 06EC0000 + F93A8
001124D8: 06FD2328 06EC0000 + 112328
001124DC: 00000002
001124E0: 00000002
001124E4: 000000F5
001124E8: 0110005C 01000000 + 10005C (vegas50k.dll)
001124EC: 0110005B 01000000 + 10005B (vegas50k.dll)
001124F0: 000000F8
001124F4: 004EBB7D 00400000 + EBB7D (vegas50.exe)
001124F8: 01010874 01000000 + 10874 (vegas50k.dll)
> 0011250C: 01010874 01000000 + 10874 (vegas50k.dll)
> 00112510: 7E0938C1 7E090000 + 38C1 (GDI32.dll)
00112514: 06FB60A0 06EC0000 + F60A0
00112518: 00000000
0011251C: 00000007
> 00112548: 7E0938D0 7E090000 + 38D0 (GDI32.dll)
> 0011254C: 01010874 01000000 + 10874 (vegas50k.dll)
- - -
0012FFF0: 00000000
0012FFF4: 00000000
0012FFF8: 007287E0 00400000 + 3287E0 (vegas50.exe)
0012FFFC: 00000000

IN THESE CASES I try to CREATE and SAVE BACKUP files (*.bak.bak or *.bak)
only these case i cant to open the project when the Vegas window is MINIMIZED and gve 2 clicks left-boton mouse on the desktop, after I maximize Vegas 5.0 and I can to see the project (in extension *:bak.bak or *.bak) and to continued to work it.

The programmers would release a Plug-In or ejecutable (*.exe) of small size to fix the BIG problem.

Thanks

Juan

Nice workaround daryl. I'll have to keep this in mind in case I hit this bug.

So far we still cannot reproduce the problem here.

Can you please give us some more information about your system? (list of questions is below).

It may help us to reproduce this problem if you tell us what third-party plug-ins you have installed (video plug-ins, Satish's PluginPac frameserver, etc.), what video FX you are using in your project, whether you are running any anti-virus software, and so on. It looks like there is some sort of stack corruption or threading issue, but we really need to replicate this problem here so we can figure out what's causing it.

One thing to try is to turn OFF the general preference "Draw waveforms and frames in events" before loading your project. Does your project load now? Please let us know if this works (you'll probably want to turn the pref back on to work on your project).

1. What version of DirectX do you have installed? (Start | Run | dxdiag will tell this)

2. Have you customized the Vegas layout in any way? If so, what have you changed?

3. What video card do you have? Driver version?

4. Have you tried lowering video acceleration? Use Control Panel | Display | Settings | Advanced and look around the various tabs for a hardware acceleration slider, try dropping it down to the next lower setting.

5. Are you running a non-English version of Win2K? If yes, what language are you using?

6) Right click on a bmp file- what is it set to open with by default?

7) What app (+ version) are you using to create the problem stills? Is this app on the Vegas machine?

8) What video plug-ins for Vegas do you have installed (list)?

First off, it's a very new, relatively clean machine. Sony (!) VIAO laptop PCG-FRV37 with XP Pro SP1. Quicktime 6.1 pre-installed. I only have installed a few programs: VEGAS 5, DVDA2, Boris Grafitti Ltd, Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, InDesign2, Acrobat 5 (full), Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, SWISH2, StarOffice7, Java1.4, and Contour Shuttle Pro2.

Your questions:

One thing to try is to turn OFF the general preference "Draw waveforms and frames in events" before loading your project. Does your project load now? Please let us know if this works (you'll probably want to turn the pref back on to work on your project).

This does not help - same crash, even with single png file. Approx: 520x200 pixels - not huge

1. What version of DirectX do you have installed? (Start | Run | dxdiag will tell this)

DirectX 9.0A

2. Have you customized the Vegas layout in any way? If so, what have you changed?

No

3. What video card do you have? Driver version?

Radeon IGP 345M, Driver v6.14.0010.6388

4. Have you tried lowering video acceleration? Use Control Panel | Display | Settings | Advanced and look around the various tabs for a hardware acceleration slider, try dropping it down to the next lower setting.

I have slide way down - no effect (crash still occurs)

5. Are you running a non-English version of Win2K? If yes, what language are you using?

No - std english

6) Right click on a bmp file- what is it set to open with by default?

Photoshop 7- for me problem is with PNG files

7) What app (+ version) are you using to create the problem stills? Is this app on the Vegas machine?

Photoshop 7, yes (tried some created on another machine as well

8) What video plug-ins for Vegas do you have installed (list)?

None that I'm aware of ... other that defaults(???)

Good luck finding this. It's a real pain to convert all my images, but I'm thankful for daryls workaround!

John

System AMD Athlon 2100+ 1.73 ghz 512meg Ram, Win XP pro

1. Directx 9.0b(4.09.000.0902)
2. Layout not customized
3.Matrox G550 5.13.0001.1360
4. lowered acceleration no effect
5.running english winxp pro
6.photoshop 7.0
7. photoshop 7.0, or 5.5
8. Satish's plug ins, demo Boris and Zenote

Sony Vegas 5.0
Version 5.0a (Build 134)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x154 IP:0x4E38D7
In Module 'vegas50.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0xE38D7
Thread: GUI ID=0x6BC Stack=0x12C000-0x130000
Registers:
EAX=04485328 CS=001b EIP=004e38d7 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=05226078 SS=0023 ESP=0012cf68 EBP=00000002
ECX=00000154 DS=0023 ESI=00000000 FS=0038
EDX=00000154 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
004E38D7: 8B 32 89 74 24 28 8B 4A .2.t$(.J
004E38DF: 04 89 4C 24 2C 8B 42 08 ..L,.B.
Stack Dump:
0012CF68: 0000000C
0012CF6C: 00000000
0012CF70: 03A504D0 03A10000 + 404D0
0012CF74: 05226078 051C0000 + 66078
0012CF78: 00000000
0012CF7C: 0522A850 051C0000 + 6A850
0012CF80: 0522A230 051C0000 + 6A230
0012CF84: 044212B0 043C0000 + 612B0
0012CF88: 00000002
0012CF8C: 00000002
0012CF90: 000002A4
0012CF94: 01100076 01000000 + 100076 (vegas50k.dll)
0012CF98: 01100075 01000000 + 100075 (vegas50k.dll)
0012CF9C: 000002A5
0012CFA0: 004EBB7D 00400000 + EBB7D (vegas50.exe)
0012CFA4: 0D01102D 0CF50000 + C102D
> 0012CFBC: 7E0938C1 7E090000 + 38C1 (GDI32.dll)
> 0012D000: 004EC77E 00400000 + EC77E (vegas50.exe)
0012D004: 00000008
0012D008: 0D01102D 0CF50000 + C102D
0012D00C: 03A504D0 03A10000 + 404D0
0012D010: 0D01102D 0CF50000 + C102D
> 0012D014: 7E0928AD 7E090000 + 28AD (GDI32.dll)
> 0012D048: 004184C2 00400000 + 184C2 (vegas50.exe)
0012D04C: 0D01102D 0CF50000 + C102D
0012D050: 00000000
0012D054: 00000000
0012D058: 00FFFFFF
> 0012D084: 7C377407 7C340000 + 37407 (MSVCR71.dll)
> 0012D08C: 00610052 00400000 + 210052 (vegas50.exe)
- - -
0012FFF0: 00000000
0012FFF4: 00000000
0012FFF8: 007287E0 00400000 + 3287E0 (vegas50.exe)
0012FFFC: 00000000

up.....

need to get work done but I can't open 90% of my old projects from 4.0...............

I have had consistent problem opening a saved Vegas V5 VEG that contains still images. I have not had the problem in Vegas 4. I have installed VV5 in 4 computers - 2 of them will open the VEG, 2 will not. The computer that has been running VV4 successfully will not open a VV5 file that contains still images - doesn't matter that the stills are PNGs, PSDs, or JPEGs. the size of the image has no apparent affect (720x480 or larger or smaller). Anybody have a similar problem. Any solutions? ideas?

If you go to Vegas 5's explorer in a clean (new, empty) project, select a .bmp (or other problem still), right click>properties, a file properties window will pop up. In this window you will see the still reader .dll listed. Can you tell us what it says on your system?

(mine, example):

Plug-In
Name: stl2plg.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas 5.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\stl2plg
Version: Version 1.3 (Build 1752)
Company: Sony Pictures Digital Inc.

This info will help us close in on this issue- thanks

I am having the same problem with VV5 crashes when video and stills (.jpg) are mixed. [Except I have not been able to recover any of my works] Here is what I get when I open .jpg properties.

Plug-In
Name: stl2plg.dll
Folder: E:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas 5.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\stl2plg
Version: Version 1.3 (Build 1680)
Company: Sony Pictures Digital Inc.

As I've said before, were' trying like mad to get a repro on this but have not been able to. DrJones said:

"I have installed VV5 in 4 computers - 2 of them will open the VEG, 2 will not. "

Is there any obvious difference between the working and non-working machines? OS? Installed 3rd apps (even app versions)? Video display? Direct X version? Plug-ins?

Also: Is there a difference in the amount of installed RAM between the working and non-working machines? Any page file size differences? Are the project and BMP files on a local hard drive, or network share, or an external USB or Firewire drive?

I too have experienced this problem. It occured with both .png and .jpg files. By removing the file extension I could redirect the program to the file and then load it. However, I was also using the same image as a Background in DVD-A and could not place the file without putting the extension back on.
I will add my setup info later when I get home to the machine.

ADDED:
One of the files was created as a snapshot from Vegas 5. But this file was then edited in Photoshop.

ADDED:
My machine shows the following:
Plug-In
Name: stl2plg.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas 5.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\stl2plg
Version: Version 1.3 (Build 1680)
Company: Sony Pictures Digital Inc.

My system:
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name VIDEOEDIT
System Manufacturer System Manufacturer
System Model System Name
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~2423 Mhz
BIOS Version Award Modular BIOS v6.0
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
Locale United States
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 1,048,024 KB
Available Physical Memory 746,156 KB
Total Virtual Memory 3,569,152 KB
Available Virtual Memory 3,073,404 KB
Page File Space 2,521,128 KB

I have done some more testing on this problem. I can replicate it consistantly.
I started a new project, placed a single png file on the timeline, saved it and then closed Vegas.
I restarted Vegas and tried to open the .veg file. The same error as shown above was generated and Vegas closed when I closed the error message box.
I again started Vegas but this time, using Vegas explorer, I removed the .png from the file name. Now when I tried to open the file Vegas could not find the file so I pointed Vegas to the renamed file and it opened with no problem.
I next opened Windows explorer and renamed the file with the .png extension. I restarted Vegas and pointed Vegas to the renamed file and the crash was repeated.
An interesting point is that the Vegas explorer will not show the file when it doesn't have the .png extension.
I created a new project as before using the file without the .png. I had go to Windows explorer to find the file. After closing and restarting Vegas this .veg opened without a problem.

It doesn't make any sense to me but I hope my experimentation will help find the problem.

I too have been trying to duplicate the problem reported here...nothing as V5 opens wih no problems....about the only thing different I see is my .png/.bmp and other images were created with fireworks and not photoshop...could this be the culprit?

Bump

I am getting the same error message. It happens when I use Vegas to take the screen shot or have images/stills in the timeline from other resources.

I am running XP home version 2002 service pack 1
intel PIV 2.66 w/ 512 RAM
NVidia GeForce4 MX 420
I'm using a Silicon Image Sil 0680 ATA/133 Controller for a 2nd hard drive
Vegas the system drive (C:) and all media are located on second drive

Just did two quick tests:
No still images - project reopens fine
Still images - Vegas crashes:

Sony Vegas 5.0
Version 5.0a (Build 134)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x154 IP:0x4E38D7
In Module 'vegas50.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0xE38D7
Thread: GUI ID=0xEB8 Stack=0x11B000-0x130000
Registers:
EAX=06e33948 CS=001b EIP=004e38d7 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=07c5d5b0 SS=0023 ESP=0011b360 EBP=00000002
ECX=00000154 DS=0023 ESI=00000000 FS=003b
EDX=00000154 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
004E38D7: 8B 32 89 74 24 28 8B 4A .2.t$(.J
004E38DF: 04 89 4C 24 2C 8B 42 08 ..L,.B.
Stack Dump:
0011B360: 00000004
0011B364: 00000000
0011B368: 065758F0 06550000 + 258F0
0011B36C: 07C5D5B0 07C10000 + 4D5B0
0011B370: 00000000
0011B374: 07C4F708 07C10000 + 3F708
0011B378: 07C4F0E8 07C10000 + 3F0E8
0011B37C: 06E7E138 06D90000 + EE138
0011B380: 00000002
0011B384: 00000002
0011B388: 000000E4
0011B38C: 0110005B 01000000 + 10005B (vegas50k.dll)
0011B390: 0110005A 01000000 + 10005A (vegas50k.dll)
0011B394: 000000EF
0011B398: 004EBB7D 00400000 + EBB7D (vegas50.exe)
0011B39C: 9B010902
> 0011B3B4: 7E0938C1 7E090000 + 38C1 (GDI32.dll)
> 0011B3EC: 7E0938D0 7E090000 + 38D0 (GDI32.dll)
> 0011B3F8: 004EC77E 00400000 + EC77E (vegas50.exe)
0011B3FC: 00000003
0011B400: 9B010902
0011B404: 065758F0 06550000 + 258F0
0011B408: 9B010902
> 0011B40C: 7E0928AD 7E090000 + 28AD (GDI32.dll)
> 0011B484: 00610052 00400000 + 210052 (vegas50.exe)
> 0011B488: 00650074 00400000 + 250074 (vegas50.exe)
- - -
0012FFF0: 00000000
0012FFF4: 00000000
0012FFF8: 007287E0 00400000 + 3287E0 (vegas50.exe)
0012FFFC: 00000000

please see my post above
6/2 5:49 AM

1024 Memory
Dirext X 9.0b
ATI Radeon 9000 Driver Ver. 6.14.10.6414

Looking at the above posts, I really thought it might be the ATI card, until I saw someone witha Matrox.

At this point, ANY images i use are converted to PSDs first. As with others, this is not a problem in V4 -- only V5.

As the Beatles once sang, "Help! I need somebody!"

Please contact our CS department- we can email you with a small beta .dll that has solved this problem for some users.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/support/contactus.asp


Unfortunately we have not been able to reproduce this problem on any machine here, but we are actively chasing this problem and hope to have the final fix available soon.

I installed the .dll I received from support and still had the same crash. However, it looks like I have the same build as before (5.0a 134)... was the beta dll going to change the build reference number?

Just for the record, the work around mentioned is:
1. rename all stills
2. leave them offline when opening project

And here is the error code recieved:
Sony Vegas 5.0
Version 5.0a (Build 134)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x154 IP:0x4E38D7
In Module 'vegas50.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0xE38D7
Thread: GUI ID=0x9CC Stack=0x124000-0x130000
Registers:
EAX=07da6ab0 CS=001b EIP=004e38d7 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=07d03748 SS=0023 ESP=00124204 EBP=00000002
ECX=00000154 DS=0023 ESI=00000000 FS=003b
EDX=00000154 ES=0023 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
004E38D7: 8B 32 89 74 24 28 8B 4A .2.t$(.J
004E38DF: 04 89 4C 24 2C 8B 42 08 ..L,.B.
Stack Dump:
00124204: 00000004
00124208: 00000000
0012420C: 0663B4A0 06610000 + 2B4A0
00124210: 07D03748 07CD0000 + 33748
00124214: 00000000
00124218: 07D0F450 07CD0000 + 3F450
0012421C: 07D0EE30 07CD0000 + 3EE30
00124220: 06F45A20 06E50000 + F5A20
00124224: 00000002
00124228: 00000002
0012422C: 000000E4
00124230: 0110005B 01000000 + 10005B (vegas50k.dll)
00124234: 0110005A 01000000 + 10005A (vegas50k.dll)
00124238: 000000EF
0012423C: 004EBB7D 00400000 + EBB7D (vegas50.exe)
00124240: 72010922
> 00124258: 7E0938C1 7E090000 + 38C1 (GDI32.dll)
> 00124290: 7E0938D0 7E090000 + 38D0 (GDI32.dll)
> 0012429C: 004EC77E 00400000 + EC77E (vegas50.exe)
001242A0: 00000003
001242A4: 72010922
001242A8: 0663B4A0 06610000 + 2B4A0
001242AC: 72010922
> 001242B0: 7E0928AD 7E090000 + 28AD (GDI32.dll)
> 00124328: 00610052 00400000 + 210052 (vegas50.exe)
> 0012432C: 00650074 00400000 + 250074 (vegas50.exe)
- - -
0012FFF0: 00000000
0012FFF4: 00000000
0012FFF8: 007287E0 00400000 + 3287E0 (vegas50.exe)
0012FFFC: 00000000