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Sony Vegas 7 locks up

Hi everyone. I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I seem to have an issue with Vegas 7 Platinum locking up on me when I load large files. This mostly seems to happen when I load files from my PVR. I use a Mustek PVR H-140 to record my DJ/VJ sets. The resulting files are usually pretty large (it records for 4 hours max and the files are about 3gb). They are recorded as ASF files. I then take those and load it into Vegas and use that to pull shorter clips from the file for various reason.

The problem mostly seems to happen when I try to change the zoom size using the horizontal scroll bar. Sometimes it just stops responding (stops drawing the frames, no buttons respond, eventually I get the (Not Responding) prompt in the title bar.

At first I thought this was a software conflict but I had to rebuilt my whole system recently and I installed Vegas first and tied it and the problem still happened.

Anyone else experienced anything similar and found a solution?

Thanks
Steve

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Permalink Reply by Shaw Productions Inc. on July 2, 2009 at 10:25pm: If I were you, I would copy and paste your issue into an email to sony and they will help you. Everytime I have had an issue with something they always had the answer for me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Steve Prinsen on July 3, 2009 at 6:50pm: Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Shaw Productions Inc. said:
If I were you, I would copy and paste your issue into an email to sony and they will help you. Everytime I have had an issue with something they always had the answer for me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pierre Samuel Rioux on July 5, 2009 at 1:09pm: I think you need more virtual memory. 1 g is not a of for 1hr project so ad stick memory

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Permalink Reply by Shane Killian on July 5, 2009 at 4:18pm: I have two SATA2 drives, and I put a 4-gig (the max) virtual swap file on each one. This seems to work okay since they're both fast drives, and pre-allocating the swap space means that it can go ahead and use them without having to allocate the space. It seems to work well.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Steve Prinsen on July 6, 2009 at 12:36pm: You guys may be on to something there, I hadn't thought about the swap file. I'll play and let you know the results.

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