Compatibility save

Drew Ott

Drew Ott

Wish I were banned.
I have a project in Vegas 8 that I desperately need to be opened in Vegas 7. I'm not sure if there is a compatibility-mode save option.

Vegas 8 keeps crashing when I try to open a huge thing of files. I've tried nearly everything. I thought it was using all of my RAM, but I just bought 2gig more and it's still crashing.

Is it possible that a file is corrupt and it's causing the entire thing to crash? It doesn't crash if I leave media offline and continue working from there, but I don't know how I should render out.

Anything helps.
 
I'm actually using a trial of Vegas 8, but I can't open it in Vegas 7 where I originally started working because my .veg is for Vegas 8. I don't think Vegas 7 was having any problems.

I managed to save the project as a text file before Vegas 8 crashed, and tried to open in Vegas 7. Nearly half of the files were missing for some reason. They weren't offline, they were just blank events.
 
Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 TRIAL
Version 8.0b (Build 217)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) WRITE:0x0 IP:0x2303B990
In Module 'mcmpgvdec.dll' at Address 0x23000000 + 0x3B990
Thread: VideoCache ID=0x164C Stack=0x61FE000-0x6200000
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=001b EIP=2303b990 EFLGS=00010212
EBX=00000000 SS=0023 ESP=061fefe0 EBP=061feff8
ECX=061fefb8 DS=0023 ESI=00000010 FS=003b
EDX=77a60f34 ES=0023 EDI=00002c04 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
2303B990: 89 3B EB 95 8D B6 00 00 .;......
2303B998: 00 00 8D BF 00 00 00 00 ........
Stack Dump:
061FEFE0: 061FEF80 06100000 + FEF80
061FEFE4: 25C4C008 254A0000 + 7AC008
061FEFE8: 061FEFFC 06100000 + FEFFC
061FEFEC: 01204800 01150000 + B4800
061FEFF0: 01204800 01150000 + B4800
061FEFF4: 00005A00
061FEFF8: 061FF088 06100000 + FF088
061FEFFC: 2302E829 23000000 + 2E829 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
061FF000: 01204800 01150000 + B4800
061FF004: 00000010
061FF008: 3F935F18 3EFD0000 + 965F18
061FF00C: 3F720390 3EFD0000 + 750390
061FF010: BB63E154
061FF014: 3F8CC7A8 3EFD0000 + 8FC7A8
061FF018: 061FF0DC 06100000 + FF0DC
061FF01C: 00000001
> 061FF034: 231C7370 23000000 + 1C7370 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF05C: 2303118E 23000000 + 3118E (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF060: 231C2B10 23000000 + 1C2B10 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF064: 231C728E 23000000 + 1C728E (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF06C: 2302EA7A 23000000 + 2EA7A (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF08C: 2302D765 23000000 + 2D765 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF0A8: 0F2204F1 0F210000 + 104F1 (mcmpgdmux.dll)
061FF0AC: 41FB9408 412A0000 + D19408
061FF0B0: 42004098 412A0000 + D64098
061FF0B4: 061FF140 06100000 + FF140
061FF0B8: 41F56C78 412A0000 + CB6C78
> 061FF0BC: 231D5018 23000000 + 1D5018 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF0F4: 231C2B10 23000000 + 1C2B10 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF0F8: 231C725C 23000000 + 1C725C (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF100: 2302D0F0 23000000 + 2D0F0 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF10C: 2303B63E 23000000 + 3B63E (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF11C: 232135CA 23200000 + 135CA (mcmpegin.dll)
> 061FF13C: 230297BA 23000000 + 297BA (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF15C: 23027CCE 23000000 + 27CCE (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF18C: 23026179 23000000 + 26179 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF1AC: 23216DFD 23200000 + 16DFD (mcmpegin.dll)
> 061FF1EC: 23218527 23200000 + 18527 (mcmpegin.dll)
> 061FF21C: 2323A5C2 23200000 + 3A5C2 (mcmpegin.dll)
> 061FF284: 77A635C6 77A00000 + 635C6 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF290: 77A63516 77A00000 + 63516 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF2A4: 77A634C8 77A00000 + 634C8 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF2D0: 77A3C16A 77A00000 + 3C16A (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF2E0: 77A6338A 77A00000 + 6338A (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF310: 77A3C257 77A00000 + 3C257 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF330: 77A3B460 77A00000 + 3B460 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF360: 001B7E48 00160000 + 57E48 (sfwbdmux.dll)
061FF364: 00000000
061FF368: 00000002
061FF36C: 00000000
061FF370: 00000000
> 061FF384: 77A3B913 77A00000 + 3B913 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF3B0: 77A2BCA4 77A00000 + 2BCA4 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF3C0: 77A2BD54 77A00000 + 2BD54 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF40C: 004A6350 00400000 + A6350 (vegas80.exe)
061FF410: 00000000
061FF414: 00000000
061FF418: 001D00C4 001D0000 + C4
061FF41C: 000007FF
> 061FF424: 77A623C1 77A00000 + 623C1 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF434: 77A1F0F2 77A00000 + 1F0F2 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF438: 77A62447 77A00000 + 62447 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF458: 77A3BE89 77A00000 + 3BE89 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF45C: 77A3B7A7 77A00000 + 3B7A7 (ntdll.dll)
> 061FF464: 7B003E45 7AFD0000 + 33E45 (System.Windows.Forms.ni.dll)
> 061FF46C: 00800000 00400000 + 400000 (vegas80.exe)
061FF470: 001D3A80 001D0000 + 3A80
> 061FF474: 77A3B740 77A00000 + 3B740 (ntdll.dll)
061FF478: 18536768 17E30000 + 706768
061FF47C: 00000004
> 061FF498: 001A0018 00160000 + 40018 (sfwbdmux.dll)
061FF49C: 000007FF
> 061FF4F8: 23000000 23000000 + 0 (mcmpgvdec.dll)
> 061FF908: 0191076A 01850000 + C076A (vegas80k.dll)
- - -
061FFFF0: 00000000
061FFFF4: 005995C0 00400000 + 1995C0 (vegas80.exe)
061FFFF8: 00ADC81C 00400000 + 6DC81C (vegas80.exe)
061FFFFC: 00000000
 
So I just tried rendering even after the error message popped up. Apparently my system is low on memory. I have 4gigs and Vista 32bit is reading 3.2gig. That is plenty because at crash it's only using 61% RAM.
 
OK...

I did a bunch of testing. It seems that Vegas is crashing every time my page files hit in the upper 2300s. I was editing with it for a few days flawlessly, but all of the sudden it crashes every single time.

I believe I have this problem: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/871399#871399

Only thing is, I can't convert any file types now because the clips are already edited and in the timeline. I can't open and try to render out parts because it will just crash. It's too late to start over because my deadline is Friday.
 
Ouch.

I had no trouble until I started needing 2 gigs of RAM for my project.

Thanks for your help.

I've figured a way around my problem anyway. I'm moving all the clips for each scene into their own folder and then deleting all of the files from the big folder with all of the clips. Vegas asks where to look and I direct it to just one of the folders where only one scene is. I leave the rest offline and then render that one scene, and I'll splice them all together. A pain, yes -- but it works.

Thanks again.
 
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