Vegas 8 crashes with stills - Help!

[mbwkrause]

Hi there - I have an important project to finish and Vegas 8 (updated) is driving me mad. I want to use some old b/w stills with my HDV 30i project and every time I put a still on the timeline the programm crashes. I changed the color space of the pics (to Adobe RBG), I re-saved and re-named them (they are jpg) but nothing worked. I tried it on a second computer - still crashing. Sometimes I get this error code: >The instruction at "0x7c9a3ba" referenced memory at "0x3d8684e4". The memory could not be "read"<
The last four hours I did nothing but trying to make it work. Can't go back to Vegas 7 either, only to Studio but than my Lower Thirds wouldn't work...
If anybody has any idea every help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matthias

 

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

How many years ago the JPEGs were encoded? If that was a buggy encoder, try resaving a few of them using Gimp or PHotoshop, and then drag them in the timeline of Vegas and see if it is crashing or not.

 

[kansasaerial]

Hi there - I have an important project to finish and Vegas 8 (updated) is driving me mad. I want to use some old b/w stills with my HDV 30i project and every time I put a still on the timeline the programm crashes. I changed the color space of the pics (to Adobe RBG), I re-saved and re-named them (they are jpg) but nothing worked. I tried it on a second computer - still crashing. Sometimes I get this error code: >The instruction at "0x7c9a3ba" referenced memory at "0x3d8684e4". The memory could not be "read"<
The last four hours I did nothing but trying to make it work. Can't go back to Vegas 7 either, only to Studio but than my Lower Thirds wouldn't work...
If anybody has any idea every help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matthias

You should probably be using sRGB color profile with JPEG's, and make sure you're using standard (not progressive) compression. Also, my Vegas 8 crashes if I import large (12MP) images from my Canon 5D. I resize down to 1500x and it works fine.