Sony Vegas is Crashing! Zarx264gui mp4s are not working!

[OtakuGray]

Alright, so I've got a lot of lossless rips that I wanted to compress to mp4 so that way they wouldn't take up so much room on my computer. I'm taking up an entire terabyte with the amount of anime on my harddrive atm so it would really be nice to have more space.

I decided to start with FMA Brotherhood, and so I slapped Episode 22 into Zarx and let it compress the file.

So I have my file and I tried to put it into Vegas. Only problem is...it crashed! This is the error:



I did some googling and couldn't really find a fix. It looks like an issue with the mcmp4plug.dll file but I'm not really sure why? Maybe the container type? I have Quicktime and I have all the basic codecs from amvapp installed. (I'm not using 3.0 though, I'm using the older one) I know about AAC issues but my clips have no audio, so I thought that might not be the issue.

If anyone knows a fix or can offer some help, it'd be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Nya-chan Production]

What settings did you use in ZarxGUI? Did you make a lossless?

Seems like some mp4 plugin of Vegas fault, though. I would go first for some codec check (Which codecs / pack do you use? Can you play the mp4 in your player, for example?) and if it turns it's okay, it might be outdated Vegas - a reinstall or newer version might help there.

[OtakuGray]

What settings did you use in ZarxGUI? Did you make a lossless?.

It was a Lagarith dvd rip and then I imported into Zarx with the "Avisynth AVIsource" option. I set the quantizer to 21 instead of 20 and that's about all I did.

(Which codecs / pack do you use? Can you play the mp4 in your player, for example?)

I can play it in VLC and I can play it in windows media player just fine. I have all the default amvapp codecs and I have the quicktime codecs(which I've been told by the internet are important for vegas) I think I have some xvid codecs which are for vegas so it can open .avi files.

I don't have anything messy like the K-Lite pack installed.

It might be outdated Vegas - a reinstall or newer version might help there.

I was really hoping I wouldn't have to upgrade lol I can't stand the newer versions of Vegas. I tried replacing the Vegas 8 mcmp4plug.dll file with the Vegas 9 .dll file and it didn't change anything, so I don't know if a re-install would be any more effective.

Thanks for your help though, Nya! I'll try and find a program that can list the codecs I'm using.

[OtakuGray]

Here's a list of my codecs:

[Nya-chan Production]

What settings did you use in ZarxGUI? Did you make a lossless?.

It was a Lagarith dvd rip and then I imported into Zarx with the "Avisynth AVIsource" option. I set the quantizer to 21 instead of 20 and that's about all I did.

I think this is the problem? This doesn't produce lossless, I think (nothing in ZarxGUI really does). You can try checking a "keep keyframes" option (hope I remember it right) or try to make lossless some other way (avisynth + VDub). Anyway, the thing you import to Vegas should be .avi, not .mp4 (should avoid you all the troubles mp4s can make). It will probably have bigger filesize, you can subclip, though.