Sony Vegas Pro 17 Keeps Crashing with 4K Drone Footage.

Michael-Raymond wrote on 5/25/2021, 6:28 PM

It is getting very frustrating. For several weeks now, I've been having trouble working with 4K footage (imported at 60fps and changed to 29.97fps to rule out that as a problem) with my Sony Vegas Pro 17 software. The files import alright and I can drag them to the timeline. If I go slow enough, the program won't crash right away. But, at some point, everything crashes. I have had to save often. I was successful a month ago putting together a 2 minute 4K promo video but not lately. At times, I can use the 4K drone footage with HD footage, as well as GoPro 4K footage. But, not always. I have changed my settings to what was recommended in an earlier post.

I have an i7 Windows processor, Intel generic graphics card with 32GB RAM. The graphics card doesn't allow me to upgrade to Adobe Premier Pro or use Davinci Resolve. I just need to find a solution to work with my 4K drone footage. At times, I have been successful rendering the 4K footage into HD and adding into the other footage. However, there are times when I want the 4K quality.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Michael

Oshkosh, WI

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CubeAce wrote on 5/25/2021, 7:07 PM

@Michael-Raymond

Hi Micheal, and welcome to the user to user forums but not for Vegas products, that set of forums can be found here.

While this is not the correct forum for Vegas editors I strongly suspect the drone is producing variable frame rate footage that no editing package will be able to handle and needs to be converted to constant frame rate footage using Handbrake before you can edit the footage. Use MediaInfo to check the files frame rate is not constant and Handbrake to convert the file to a constant frame rate file if I'm correct.

This thread, as it is asking for information to do with a Vegas product will shortly be locked by a mod I suspect.

If my guess is not correct then please re-post on the correct forum.

Ray.

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