Vegas crashing!!

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I have Vegas 2.0d. I have 12 audio tracks on it. They are 3 takes of an accoustic piano song (2 tracks each left/right/floor mikes) and 3 more for the edited version. The tracks were recorded onto an AW4416 and dropped into Vegas via light pipe. They recorded no problem. They play back... no problem. When I do anything to them, Vegas crashes.

I cut the silence off the front of the tracks, tried to play... crash (need control/alt/delete). Added markers, hit play...crash. Move some tracks...hit play, crash. Every 3rd or 4th crash, the computer needs a reboot.

If I do something (remove silence) save the file, let Vegas crash, when I open it again, the change is there and it plays fine. If I make a change, save it, get out of Vegas and open it again, plays fine.

I have Cool Edit and Sonar. I transfered the audio tracks there and they play fine, I make changes and everything works. Just not Vegas.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!!
 
I am not sure what the problem is rjt.

Maybe you could uninstall Vegas, then re-install the program.

I am not sure what to tell you. :)

spin
 
SF recommended uninstalling a part of sonar (which incidently started to have problems)... that kind of helped. Vegas still seems to crash pretty frequently... anybody else have a Vegas crashing problem?

Thanks for the suggestion.... think I will reinstall vegas!
 
how much memory do you have?

when I had little memory, vegas used to crash predictably.

256 megs solved the problem like magic
 
Try re-installing the program.

Ans like Cyan Jagar said, "do you have enough RAM"?


Let us know what happens.
 
I have 256 K ram and a pentium III 733 with scsi drives (an IBM rotating at 10,000). I think SF was right, there seems to be some mysterious connection between some of the Cakewalk Sonar stuff and Vegas. I am not entirely sure what is going on, but I solved most of the sonar problem and think will I delete the plug in which is supposedly causing the vegas problem. Hmmm, computers... gotta love em.
 
I hope everything turns out alright for you, rjt.

Post us back and let us know how you have solved the problem.

spin
 
Will do.........Really appreciate the willingness to help, much appreciated!!!
 
You should make backup copies of your .VEG files after each save. I lost several hours worth of work when Vegas crashed while saving, it lost the file completely.

This won't help you with your problem, but may save you from a big headache.
 
Good advice.... I have never had a hard disk crash but I have had one erased accidently by a friend (AARRRGGGHHH) and oddly I had one erased by a SCSI program that could not find the SCSI instrument it was looking for, so set everything to zero.... completely deleting the hard disk. So I am a back-up fiend now!

As an aside, I reinstalled sonar and had to play with it a while to get certain things working correctly. It seems to have helped Vegas quite a bit. Although I am mostly just moving files and playing them etc. (not much editing) I have only had one crash in the last week or so. Sonar is using a lot less disk power as well. So, that may have been the answer.
 
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