bro I was editing 1.5 hours of raw footage, and was getting fed up with the lag, and this video helped insanely much. It will probably improve my experience on shorter heavier edited videos aswell, as someone who uses vegas multiple times a week this is just so nice
Yes, thank you for this! I upgraded to 18 today, and like 17, it crashed all the time, which really impacts my workflow negatively. This fixed it though, thanks!
I just bought the Vegas Pro 18 software and thank you so much for this video. These yours great videos will help a lot in making my channel videos. Keep up good work Josh.
To say this tutorial was a life saver would be an understatement. Vegas user from the very beginning. Sonic Foundry beginning. Have never had a completely satisfactory experience, but always thought they were just one version or build away from perfection. Always frustrated with GPU acceleration. It was a lot faster, especially renders, if you could just keep it running long enough to finish without crashing. So most of the time I just left it off. Just updated to Vegas 18 couple weeks ago, then a new PC build. 12 core AMD, 64GB, nVidia RTX2060, 2TB m.2 SSDs. Lightening fast, GPU unbelievable. 6 layer multicam editing at Best/Full resolution previews. But.... after a few days and more elaborate projects it started crashing. I started disabling the GPU. Running Preview Half quality res. Turning off all thumbnails on timeline. It got so bad it would barely load. Under tremendous pressure to finish a job with a drop dead deadline I went looking for answers. Then I found this video. WTF? Why did someone on creative cow not tell me about the "Open CL/GL interop" 8 years ago? Seriously? As for the RAM setting, I had played with that but always assumed it was just for RAM preview, never guessed it improved other functions like thumbnail generation. From the experiments I made it sometimes increasing the RAM appeared to make matters even worse. Other advice I was getting always started with turning OFF GPU acceleration. So to wrap this up. I followed all your direction except timeline thumbnails. Sorry I need them, lost without them. But it doesn't matter, because this rig now can play at full resolution, while building thumbnails on the timeline. Something it had never done before. thanks! big thumbs up! subscribed. joined.
Came back a day later to see if i had any crashes after watching this video. I DID NOT! Actually so shocked, not a single crash since doing these settings, thank you so much!
In preferences -> File I/O -> Hardware decoder to use: I don´t have an option to chose a graphic card I have only OFF and Auto (Off) there even that in -> Video tab I clicked the GPU acelerator to use Nvidea . Thank you for help
THANK YOU!!! I was losing the will to live having upgraded to Vegas 18 (always crashing). Now got it working - thanks to your vid. Didn't even need to disable the clip thumbnails (which I find useful). Cheers - you're a legend!
Same here Vegas pro 18, if i tick them all i get is OFF & AUTO (OFF), If i untick them it shows my NVIDIA card. I also only have one OpenCL/GL Interop, not the one for Intel.
A decade of problems with vegas, over 14 hours on this last project. You solved my problem. These are the most underrated vegas videos out there. Nothing else worked.
As someone who struggled with Vegas 14 crashing, I was a little disappointed when Vegas 18 carried on doing the same thing...but this has helped so much, thanks man!! *Edit - Forgot to mention how brilliant that thumbnail choice is
I have tried out every solution for crash when previewing on external monitor, and nothing has worked until I randomly found this video and followed your steps - Thanks a lot! 💪
You should also add one more thing... Click on the help menu, and run the driver update utility. This will install the best recommended driver for VEGAS on your system, though it currently only works for Nvidia cards. For AMD cards, make sure you install the Enterprise driver, not the game drivers they give you by default. I just helped a user on the forums fix their issue this way, one click on the driver update utility, and their problems were gone.
That is a good method and could definitely go in this video. I have it in the More Cool New Things video but that one won't get as much attention as this one.
These solutions all worked for me, thank you so much. I was getting so frustrated with Vegas constantly crashing or getting stuck in "not responding limbo" when all I had done was just open the program itself. Now it actually runs and I can finish editing my videos. ; w ;
Thank you very much for fixing my problem. I went to another video and they said to set one of the SO4 options to false, but that doesn't exist on my copy of MS17. I had my render crash at 88% twice already. You deserve a medal for this!
Lifesaver! Working on over 30 videos for a client and literally have been making a few edits, saving, crashing, reopening...saved me a lot of hassle. Sucks that Magix doesn't provide this info, but thank you for being a hero!
OMG! I fricking love you! You saved my nervs and my vegas runs much faster right now. The video preview is much smoother and vegas is no longer crashing! Thank you so much!
It's worth noting some users are reporting that after applying these fixes, they are getting errors with some projects not opening, VEGAS is asking for an internet connection even though one exists. I'm not sure which change triggered it, but one of them did, as when the user reversed these suggested changes, the bug went away.
Since first checking in with you, I've done the following 7 things, trying to get Vegas Pro 18 to do any render at all: 1) Did latest Windows 10 update 2) Did Vegas Pro 18 factory reset 3) Did NVIDIA driver update 4) Enabled legacy AVC and HEVC decoding in File I/O 5) Set GPU acceleration processing to "NVIDIA" (also tried turning it OFF) 6) Dedicated a third of available Dynamic RAM 7) Set both Open CL/GL interops to "FALSE" And --- after all that --- attempted to render several very short, basically unedited MP4s to the factory default project settings. And Pro 18 still will not render anything. Nothing at all. I should mention that Vegas Pro 14, which is on the same machine, works fine. Can you suggest any further steps. Thanks so much for all your help so far.
Wow that's crazy that they're not being rendered. IIf you've already re-encoded the video (using this handbrake tutorial: th-cam.com/video/DiDmUg8aRnE/w-d-xo.html and using these render settings: th-cam.com/video/t6PPUD6ZROs/w-d-xo.html )Then I'm out of ideas. You can try posting to the official forums here: www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/vegas-pro-forum/ and see if anybody else has any suggestions.
Yes! Thank you for showing AND explaining what we are doing by changing a setting. Others just show do this, this and that, and I have no idea what I've really changed.
So I've been experiencing lag with HEVC videos recorded with RADEON ReLIVE for eternity now. After watching so many things, all of these solutions used to fix the issues for me, including the So4 solution, but nothing would do the trick on Vegas 18. What I did was disable legacy HEVC decoding and the videos stopped lagging! Amen!
Hey! I use vegas on my Laptop. I have 2080 nvidia card and everything works fine until im tapping out of vegas. Everytime when im using Chrome for a sec or going in my files to find a new music to add when i than come back to vegas it freezes and it takes about 1minute to load up everything again. I dont know what the problem is... on my normal PC which has a 1060 there is no problem like that. Can you help me?
1. Go to options, then click "preferences" while pressing shift. 2. Go to General 3. Uncheck "close media files when not the active application" Now it should be fixed.
Wow. This video is a life saver. Using Movie Studio 17. Platinum and would constantly freeze on playbacks or even skimming through the video. Thank you so much!!
Thanks for the video. As one of the few people who actually bought it, it just makes me mad how the make like $ 500 off of something that does not really work for anybody. I refuse to understand how the developers sleep at night 😄
Thanks so much for this, the bits that were the same even fixed my Sony Vegas Movie Studio 18 that crashes frequently during playback. Been trying to fix this for a long time.
Only recently purchase VP18 and was having all sorts of issues when testing Video FX with VP18 constantly freezing, going unresponsive. I applied the settings here and have not had any troubles since. I did not apply the Video setting as I edit a lot of 10 Bit videos. Cheers
Much appreciated! Somehow I still do have an annoying problem: My menue like "transitions", "video fx", "explorer" etc. are lagging a lot , I always have to move my mouse on this area to make them show them up. Video Preview etc. is working fluently though, no problems there - I do use a RTX 2080. Has anyone a suggestion/same problem?
It's not you. Vegas 18 sucks and cant properly use the GPU yet. Lots of people complaining. Magix needs a swift kick in the ass to fix their software. Typical new version launch from software companies. They don't give a shit about stable version releases. If you have at least 32GB of ram, use DaVinci Resolve. It's free and renders put Vegas to shame.
Update: Meanwhile I upgraded to a RTX 3080, but still got the same issue. The "best" solution for me so far is just to minimize the sony vegas window & open it again, then all symbols etc. are showing UP correctly again... anyways, it's still very annoying. Vegas 17 didnt have that issue, maybe i'm switching back to 17 lol
Thank you very much! You have help me to be able to open a file that I have been trying to open for 2 hours and the computers always freeze, after doing all the steps the files are load up without any problems. You save me all the work I put into this project. Thank you. 😃🤗 Subscribed! 😉
A friend followed your suggestion to check the Enable legacy AVC decoding and Enable legacy HEVC decoding. Later he discovered that his VP18 could not read or edit 4k all-i video files from my Canon EOS R camera. He spent a week trying to figure out what was wrong before someone on the Vegas Pro Forum told him to uncheck those settings.
Sounds like those are 10 bit files. Means he needs to uncheck the AVC option and it will read them again. I explain that could possibly be a side effect.
Why my vegas takes 3h50 to render a 12min 4k video? My PC specs are i7 8550u 16GB RAM, SSD, MX150. I used the settings you recommended in your other video. MAGIX intermediate 422 proxy
As usual, thanks for this great tutorial!! However, when I get to the part about Hardware Decoder to Use on the File I/O tab, it says Auto (Off) even though I have a GPU acceleration of video processing turned on on the Video tab. I have a RTX 30 series card and using the Studio Drivers. Thanks again!
Thank you! This helped a ton. Now just have to remember where to find it when I want to use HEVC ;-). One interesting thing when I did this was that the hardware decoder to use (in File I/O) was grayed out and set to Intel, not my graphics card.
V18 B373, I applied your settings and reboot, compoundplug.dll crashed the moment I loaded an existing project. I disabled the legacy decoders and it stopped crashing. Notice that if you enable the legacy decoders the setting _Hardware decoder to use_ the NVIDIA NVDEC option disappears.
That is a common issue that the devs are aware of. I typically keep legacy decoder disabled if I'm working in 10bit but as soom as I switch to 8bit, I enable it for the best reliable performance.
This is great, I've seen so many different suggestions but this was the first I've seen of OpenCL or legacy decoding. I'm actually able to edit without spamming ctrl+S and crossing my fingers every time I pause or undo anything
Hi Scrapyard! You've helped me a lot from your videos on here and responding to my reddit posts. Thank you! Question: At the 2:50 mark, you talk about selecting the graphics card. I have a 3090 and it isn't listed here at all. it only shows two options, "Off" and "Auto (Off). Anything you can do to help?
So VEGAS has a known issue that if you have Legacy AVC encoding checked, GPU's disappear from the menu. It's not your fault on this one. If you want to use your 3090 to help while editing in VEGAS, you have to make sure Legacy AVC is unchecked.
@@ScrapyardFilms Thank you. You're the greatest! The next step talks about memory. I have 64 gbs of memory (I checked task manager to make sure) but it still says max available is 32 gbs. Would it be ok to allocate 32 gbs anyways since I have 64?
Thanks for this. The only problem I have now after changing all these settings is that the building peaks takes a long time. It might be time for me to get a new PC as I've been editing on a laptop with a gtx 1050 in it lol
Great video, but I have a low memory error when rendering? This mainly happened with a movie with image stabilization in it. While I even use 3 SSD drives for writing, Footage etc. Now I have turned off the support of my Nvidia 2070 and then it works? Is this also a known problem or is it something else? I really hope my questions can be answered. Thanks in advance!!!
Best thing I can suggest is upgrading your video editing rig. That's a thick file you're working with. You can also try manually creating your own downscaled video proxies using handbrake and simply 'Replacing' the media in the 'Project Media Tab' with the lower quality files. Then once you're done editing, re-replace it back with the high quality files.
Josh, PLEASE HELP. My new Pro 18 will not even BEGIN to render. Goes directly to a "Vegas Pro has stopped working" error message. I made all three of your suggestions in Options. Was careful to both "Apply" and Restart my machine. None of that helped. I've tried rendering different source/edit files. Tried importing things via Import, instead of drag and drop. None of the obvious things seem to help. Any other suggestions ?
That's pretty weird. * If you haven't already, make sure Windows 10 is updated to version 2004. Keep on running Windows update until it is. * Also make sure your graphics card drivers are the latest they can be. * Then hold Control+Shift while double clicking the VEGAS icon on the desktop. Check the box to clear data. This factory resets VEGAS. * Then import a small video file and try to render using these settings: th-cam.com/video/t6PPUD6ZROs/w-d-xo.html If that doesn't work. Try re-encoding the file using this Handbrake video: th-cam.com/video/DiDmUg8aRnE/w-d-xo.html * Finally if you're still having problems, Uninstall VEGAS using this program, Geek: geekuninstaller.com/geek.zip Then download the latest VEGAS installer from here: rdir.magix.net/?page=SI7T5A3Q7668 And reinstall. Make sure to Restart your computer before loading up VEGAS and trying it again.
I'm running Vegas Pro 18 as well. i7 7700k 4.5ghz with GTX 1080 GPU with 32GB ram. 18 was crashing on me every ten minutes. I follow your steps and 18 hasn't crashed in the past three hours. Its funny. You go to the Vegas official forums to look for help, but you're greeted with condescending, toxic, self-absorbed losers who blame you for not including a spreadsheet of your computer stats/specs in the post. Then proceed to ridicule and belitte you for not following the initial troubleshooting phases, because hell, they're not apparently having a single issue or problem with the program. So they need to justify their petty existance and talk down on who they deem bigots and lower class peasants since they lack a sense of achievement and attention in life. Thank hell I never bothered posting, but I saw threads where people just asking for help were accused of venting and complaining and then you know the rest of the story. I come here and follow this awesome guys step by step five minute video and my problems solved. This is the kind of TH-camr we all want to look for, for trouble shooting. It may or may not work, but this guy just gets to the point and explains it very simple and clear. Mad kudos for this, liked!
Hey, could you please tell me what to do when I have not option "NVIDIA NVDEC" (I have NVIDIA RTX 2080) in "Hardware decoder to use"? There is only "off" option
Thank you for the tip. My Vegas pro 18 is running better. However, I am experiencing an anomaly. Now and then, my timeline freezes. I still have audio playback and I can still save, restart and all is fine again. That is until the next time it happens. This only seems to occur after Vegas has been running for a bit. Any ideas?
the way you say "you could totally BREAK VEGAS" makes it so tempting
Exactly I was looking for, thanks for responding ^^
No problemo! Maybe if you're not too busy you could do a little shoutout :) Help a smaller creator grow.
@@ScrapyardFilms Sure thing man :D
I just recently upgraded to Vegas Pro 18 and this helped a lot. I experienced my first crash and did these settings now its running perfectly!
bro I was editing 1.5 hours of raw footage, and was getting fed up with the lag, and this video helped insanely much. It will probably improve my experience on shorter heavier edited videos aswell, as someone who uses vegas multiple times a week this is just so nice
Yes, thank you for this!
I upgraded to 18 today, and like 17, it crashed all the time, which really impacts my workflow negatively.
This fixed it though, thanks!
No problem! Glad it helped!
I just bought the Vegas Pro 18 software and thank you so much for this video. These yours great videos will help a lot in making my channel videos. Keep up good work Josh.
why didn't you crack it lmao.
bruh u bought it spent all that money when you couldve gotten it free
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To say this tutorial was a life saver would be an understatement. Vegas user from the very beginning. Sonic Foundry beginning. Have never had a completely satisfactory experience, but always thought they were just one version or build away from perfection. Always frustrated with GPU acceleration. It was a lot faster, especially renders, if you could just keep it running long enough to finish without crashing. So most of the time I just left it off. Just updated to Vegas 18 couple weeks ago, then a new PC build. 12 core AMD, 64GB, nVidia RTX2060, 2TB m.2 SSDs. Lightening fast, GPU unbelievable. 6 layer multicam editing at Best/Full resolution previews. But.... after a few days and more elaborate projects it started crashing. I started disabling the GPU. Running Preview Half quality res. Turning off all thumbnails on timeline. It got so bad it would barely load. Under tremendous pressure to finish a job with a drop dead deadline I went looking for answers.
Then I found this video. WTF? Why did someone on creative cow not tell me about the "Open CL/GL interop" 8 years ago? Seriously? As for the RAM setting, I had played with that but always assumed it was just for RAM preview, never guessed it improved other functions like thumbnail generation. From the experiments I made it sometimes increasing the RAM appeared to make matters even worse. Other advice I was getting always started with turning OFF GPU acceleration.
So to wrap this up. I followed all your direction except timeline thumbnails. Sorry I need them, lost without them. But it doesn't matter, because this rig now can play at full resolution, while building thumbnails on the timeline. Something it had never done before. thanks! big thumbs up! subscribed. joined.
Finally someone that doesn't just say "put dynamic ram to 0 and set GPU acceleration to Off"! Thank you so much!
It's a pure masterpiece. So clear, so hopeful. Thanks to YOU, I didn't delete my Vegas and stopped screaming and shouting. Many thanks !!!!
Came back a day later to see if i had any crashes after watching this video. I DID NOT! Actually so shocked, not a single crash since doing these settings, thank you so much!
Most in-depth tutorial on this subject I've watched. Concise and informative, exactly what I needed.
In preferences -> File I/O -> Hardware decoder to use: I don´t have an option to chose a graphic card I have only OFF and Auto (Off) there even that in -> Video tab I clicked the GPU acelerator to use Nvidea . Thank you for help
me too !
THANK YOU!!! I was losing the will to live having upgraded to Vegas 18 (always crashing). Now got it working - thanks to your vid. Didn't even need to disable the clip thumbnails (which I find useful). Cheers - you're a legend!
btw in step 2, when you enable those two file i/o options, i sets hardware decoder to use to auto (off), and you cant select a gpu to use.
Same here Vegas pro 18, if i tick them all i get is OFF & AUTO (OFF), If i untick them it shows my NVIDIA card. I also only have one OpenCL/GL Interop, not the one for Intel.
A decade of problems with vegas, over 14 hours on this last project. You solved my problem. These are the most underrated vegas videos out there. Nothing else worked.
A hidden hero you are - thanks for the help that was very MUCH needed! Best tutorial explaining this by far.
Glad it helped!
As someone who struggled with Vegas 14 crashing, I was a little disappointed when Vegas 18 carried on doing the same thing...but this has helped so much, thanks man!!
*Edit - Forgot to mention how brilliant that thumbnail choice is
I have tried out every solution for crash when previewing on external monitor, and nothing has worked until I randomly found this video and followed your steps - Thanks a lot! 💪
You should also add one more thing... Click on the help menu, and run the driver update utility. This will install the best recommended driver for VEGAS on your system, though it currently only works for Nvidia cards. For AMD cards, make sure you install the Enterprise driver, not the game drivers they give you by default. I just helped a user on the forums fix their issue this way, one click on the driver update utility, and their problems were gone.
That is a good method and could definitely go in this video. I have it in the More Cool New Things video but that one won't get as much attention as this one.
@@ScrapyardFilms yo how i install the enterprise driver?
Thanks a bunch for that input too!
These solutions all worked for me, thank you so much. I was getting so frustrated with Vegas constantly crashing or getting stuck in "not responding limbo" when all I had done was just open the program itself. Now it actually runs and I can finish editing my videos. ; w ;
absolutely amazing tutorial, love the knowledge you shared!
same!
Thank you very much for fixing my problem. I went to another video and they said to set one of the SO4 options to false, but that doesn't exist on my copy of MS17.
I had my render crash at 88% twice already.
You deserve a medal for this!
Lifesaver! Working on over 30 videos for a client and literally have been making a few edits, saving, crashing, reopening...saved me a lot of hassle. Sucks that Magix doesn't provide this info, but thank you for being a hero!
This just completely fixed my preview lag in Vegas 19! Cheers bro!
You are the best man !! I had been struggling with soo many vegas crashes. This worked like a charm
Youre video are a life saver! easy and clear to understand
You sir have just saved me so much time. and saved many hairs on my head from being pulled out.
I think I needed this. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for the video man, very helpful!!!
OMG! I fricking love you! You saved my nervs and my vegas runs much faster right now. The video preview is much smoother and vegas is no longer crashing! Thank you so much!
It's worth noting some users are reporting that after applying these fixes, they are getting errors with some projects not opening, VEGAS is asking for an internet connection even though one exists. I'm not sure which change triggered it, but one of them did, as when the user reversed these suggested changes, the bug went away.
thanks for the heads up. all good on this end, but duly noted.
Since first checking in with you, I've done the following 7 things, trying to get Vegas Pro 18 to do any render at all:
1) Did latest Windows 10 update
2) Did Vegas Pro 18 factory reset
3) Did NVIDIA driver update
4) Enabled legacy AVC and HEVC decoding in File I/O
5) Set GPU acceleration processing to "NVIDIA" (also tried turning it OFF)
6) Dedicated a third of available Dynamic RAM
7) Set both Open CL/GL interops to "FALSE"
And --- after all that --- attempted to render several very short, basically unedited MP4s to the factory default project settings.
And Pro 18 still will not render anything. Nothing at all.
I should mention that Vegas Pro 14, which is on the same machine, works fine.
Can you suggest any further steps.
Thanks so much for all your help so far.
Wow that's crazy that they're not being rendered. IIf you've already re-encoded the video (using this handbrake tutorial: th-cam.com/video/DiDmUg8aRnE/w-d-xo.html and using these render settings: th-cam.com/video/t6PPUD6ZROs/w-d-xo.html )Then I'm out of ideas. You can try posting to the official forums here: www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/vegas-pro-forum/ and see if anybody else has any suggestions.
So far huge help!
Yes! Thank you for showing AND explaining what we are doing by changing a setting. Others just show do this, this and that, and I have no idea what I've really changed.
Thanks for save from my loop of crashing/freezing. It was painful upgrade from V14 to V18. :-D
This video really helped alot, thank you!!
So I've been experiencing lag with HEVC videos recorded with RADEON ReLIVE for eternity now. After watching so many things, all of these solutions used to fix the issues for me, including the So4 solution, but nothing would do the trick on Vegas 18. What I did was disable legacy HEVC decoding and the videos stopped lagging! Amen!
Thank you, you saved me from so many crashes and pain!
Much appreciated, just switched from Vegas Pro 17 and I was crashing every 5 minutes so I was pretty disappointed, hopefully this does the trick.
THANK YOU! Your fixes are spot on!
Ive been using Vegas since version 3. Thanks for posting and keep up the great work.
This helped a ton and fixed my issues. Thanks dude
After your advices it works perfect! Thank you so much!
Ur my man! Not only u helped me fix the crashes but that MKV support changed my life, ty!
This is really good.. had some good tips that others seemed to not include
Hey! I use vegas on my Laptop. I have 2080 nvidia card and everything works fine until im tapping out of vegas. Everytime when im using Chrome for a sec or going in my files to find a new music to add when i than come back to vegas it freezes and it takes about 1minute to load up everything again. I dont know what the problem is... on my normal PC which has a 1060 there is no problem like that. Can you help me?
1. Go to options, then click "preferences" while pressing shift.
2. Go to General
3. Uncheck "close media files when not the active application"
Now it should be fixed.
@@ProMiLle9917 god bless you sir
I was searching for a vide explaining this! Thank you very much!
thank youuuu it helps all sony vegas creators
I hope it helps me lmao it freezes way too much
Invaluable stuff man. Tried everything else and this made it work. THANK YOU
Wow. This video is a life saver. Using Movie Studio 17. Platinum and would constantly freeze on playbacks or even skimming through the video. Thank you so much!!
Thanks for the video. As one of the few people who actually bought it, it just makes me mad how the make like $ 500 off of something that does not really work for anybody. I refuse to understand how the developers sleep at night 😄
Thank you very much for the trick now my projects open me much faster. Greetings from Argentina.
Thanks so much for this, the bits that were the same even fixed my Sony Vegas Movie Studio 18 that crashes frequently during playback. Been trying to fix this for a long time.
Only recently purchase VP18 and was having all sorts of issues when testing Video FX with VP18 constantly freezing, going unresponsive. I applied the settings here and have not had any troubles since. I did not apply the Video setting as I edit a lot of 10 Bit videos. Cheers
wow thank you so much !!!
You're welcome! Nice artwork by the way! Very talented.
The Best
You saved my life. Now my VEGAS PRO 18 works as expected!! ThX a lot
Thanks dude! I was almost ripping my head off with the random crashes whole editing!
This has been an absolute life saver, thank you so much.
Thanks alot for this tutorials! Much love !!
Much appreciated!
Somehow I still do have an annoying problem: My menue like "transitions", "video fx", "explorer" etc. are lagging a lot , I always have to move my mouse on this area to make them show them up. Video Preview etc. is working fluently though, no problems there - I do use a RTX 2080. Has anyone a suggestion/same problem?
Same
It's not you. Vegas 18 sucks and cant properly use the GPU yet. Lots of people complaining. Magix needs a swift kick in the ass to fix their software. Typical new version launch from software companies. They don't give a shit about stable version releases. If you have at least 32GB of ram, use DaVinci Resolve. It's free and renders put Vegas to shame.
Update: Meanwhile I upgraded to a RTX 3080, but still got the same issue. The "best" solution for me so far is just to minimize the sony vegas window & open it again, then all symbols etc. are showing UP correctly again... anyways, it's still very annoying. Vegas 17 didnt have that issue, maybe i'm switching back to 17 lol
idk why, but i dont have the problem. I just switched from vegas pro 17 to vegas pro 18. and my laptop is with amd 7 4800 and gtx 1660ti
@@MarijanPiano have u tried switchuing dynamic RAM to 0?
Thank you very much! You have help me to be able to open a file that I have been trying to open for 2 hours and the computers always freeze, after doing all the steps the files are load up without any problems. You save me all the work I put into this project.
Thank you. 😃🤗 Subscribed! 😉
A friend followed your suggestion to check the Enable legacy AVC decoding and Enable legacy HEVC decoding. Later he discovered that his VP18 could not read or edit 4k all-i video files from my Canon EOS R camera. He spent a week trying to figure out what was wrong before someone on the Vegas Pro Forum told him to uncheck those settings.
Sounds like those are 10 bit files. Means he needs to uncheck the AVC option and it will read them again. I explain that could possibly be a side effect.
@@ScrapyardFilms The files are just 8 bit 4:2:0 but it is a newer high bit rate mp4 file from Canon.
Worked like a charm! Thanks!
Why my vegas takes 3h50 to render a 12min 4k video? My PC specs are i7 8550u 16GB RAM, SSD, MX150. I used the settings you recommended in your other video. MAGIX intermediate 422 proxy
you are an actual life saver. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Nice job. Truly, very good insight on helping set the software up to run better. Very happy with the results, thanks for sharing.
Now that's a lot of help! Thanks!
As usual, thanks for this great tutorial!! However, when I get to the part about Hardware Decoder to Use on the File I/O tab, it says Auto (Off) even though I have a GPU acceleration of video processing turned on on the Video tab. I have a RTX 30 series card and using the Studio Drivers. Thanks again!
Thanks, helped me a lot!
Thank you! This helped a ton. Now just have to remember where to find it when I want to use HEVC ;-). One interesting thing when I did this was that the hardware decoder to use (in File I/O) was grayed out and set to Intel, not my graphics card.
This is literally THE FIX I needed. Thank you.
thank you man, you channel deserve 500 000 subscribers
V18 B373, I applied your settings and reboot, compoundplug.dll crashed the moment I loaded an existing project. I disabled the legacy decoders and it stopped crashing. Notice that if you enable the legacy decoders the setting _Hardware decoder to use_ the NVIDIA NVDEC option disappears.
That is a common issue that the devs are aware of. I typically keep legacy decoder disabled if I'm working in 10bit but as soom as I switch to 8bit, I enable it for the best reliable performance.
This is great, I've seen so many different suggestions but this was the first I've seen of OpenCL or legacy decoding. I'm actually able to edit without spamming ctrl+S and crossing my fingers every time I pause or undo anything
THIS REALLY HELPED! THANKS SO MUCH!! :))
The settings you went into the 'internal' prefs for are right there in the vanilla prefs you show in this very video - 1:54 - third from bottom.
This is the only video that helped after 20 tutorials that didn't help, thank you!
Hey have you made a video on changing your audio to fix the problem of discord/ other apps audio stop working?
You definitely deserve more subs! U are legend!
Hey how can I make my previous window bigger?and how can I disable trim every time I trying to add a video to time line trim well take part for it
Hi Scrapyard! You've helped me a lot from your videos on here and responding to my reddit posts. Thank you! Question: At the 2:50 mark, you talk about selecting the graphics card. I have a 3090 and it isn't listed here at all. it only shows two options, "Off" and "Auto (Off). Anything you can do to help?
So VEGAS has a known issue that if you have Legacy AVC encoding checked, GPU's disappear from the menu. It's not your fault on this one. If you want to use your 3090 to help while editing in VEGAS, you have to make sure Legacy AVC is unchecked.
@@ScrapyardFilms Thank you. You're the greatest! The next step talks about memory. I have 64 gbs of memory (I checked task manager to make sure) but it still says max available is 32 gbs. Would it be ok to allocate 32 gbs anyways since I have 64?
Thanks for this. The only problem I have now after changing all these settings is that the building peaks takes a long time. It might be time for me to get a new PC as I've been editing on a laptop with a gtx 1050 in it lol
ty! this is so great!
Great video, but I have a low memory error when rendering? This mainly happened with a movie with image stabilization in it. While I even use 3 SSD drives for writing, Footage etc. Now I have turned off the support of my Nvidia 2070 and then it works? Is this also a known problem or is it something else? I really hope my questions can be answered. Thanks in advance!!!
We use 10 bit 4:2:2 every day in 4K ... any thoughts to help our work flow without creating proxies?
Best thing I can suggest is upgrading your video editing rig. That's a thick file you're working with.
You can also try manually creating your own downscaled video proxies using handbrake and simply 'Replacing' the media in the 'Project Media Tab' with the lower quality files. Then once you're done editing, re-replace it back with the high quality files.
Josh, PLEASE HELP.
My new Pro 18 will not even BEGIN to render. Goes directly to a "Vegas Pro has stopped working" error message.
I made all three of your suggestions in Options. Was careful to both "Apply" and Restart my machine. None of that helped.
I've tried rendering different source/edit files. Tried importing things via Import, instead of drag and drop. None of the obvious things seem to help.
Any other suggestions ?
That's pretty weird.
* If you haven't already, make sure Windows 10 is updated to version 2004. Keep on running Windows update until it is.
* Also make sure your graphics card drivers are the latest they can be.
* Then hold Control+Shift while double clicking the VEGAS icon on the desktop. Check the box to clear data. This factory resets VEGAS.
* Then import a small video file and try to render using these settings: th-cam.com/video/t6PPUD6ZROs/w-d-xo.html
If that doesn't work. Try re-encoding the file using this Handbrake video: th-cam.com/video/DiDmUg8aRnE/w-d-xo.html
* Finally if you're still having problems, Uninstall VEGAS using this program, Geek: geekuninstaller.com/geek.zip
Then download the latest VEGAS installer from here: rdir.magix.net/?page=SI7T5A3Q7668
And reinstall. Make sure to Restart your computer before loading up VEGAS and trying it again.
Holy Moly !
Haven't tried any of this stuff yet, but you've definitely made a friend with the magnitude of your reply. Thank you SO much.
I'm running Vegas Pro 18 as well. i7 7700k 4.5ghz with GTX 1080 GPU with 32GB ram. 18 was crashing on me every ten minutes. I follow your steps and 18 hasn't crashed in the past three hours. Its funny. You go to the Vegas official forums to look for help, but you're greeted with condescending, toxic, self-absorbed losers who blame you for not including a spreadsheet of your computer stats/specs in the post. Then proceed to ridicule and belitte you for not following the initial troubleshooting phases, because hell, they're not apparently having a single issue or problem with the program. So they need to justify their petty existance and talk down on who they deem bigots and lower class peasants since they lack a sense of achievement and attention in life. Thank hell I never bothered posting, but I saw threads where people just asking for help were accused of venting and complaining and then you know the rest of the story.
I come here and follow this awesome guys step by step five minute video and my problems solved. This is the kind of TH-camr we all want to look for, for trouble shooting. It may or may not work, but this guy just gets to the point and explains it very simple and clear. Mad kudos for this, liked!
what that guy just said.
Hello, what is your recommendation for a new PC build for VEGAS Pro 17 (I currently do not plan to upgrade to newer version of the software)?
Hey, could you please tell me what to do when I have not option "NVIDIA NVDEC" (I have NVIDIA RTX 2080) in "Hardware decoder to use"? There is only "off" option
Thank you for the tip. My Vegas pro 18 is running better. However, I am experiencing an anomaly. Now and then, my timeline freezes. I still have audio playback and I can still save, restart and all is fine again. That is until the next time it happens. This only seems to occur after Vegas has been running for a bit. Any ideas?
So you purchase a new software but is already crashing? When selecting *Video FX/Style Transfer* it crashes...
Thanks ALOT! Helped with my every time crashings when using GPU rendering (stuck at some %..) - Happy New Year!
Glad it helped!
You are a legend! Thanks for saving me
Superstars!! Thank you so much. Vegas 18 was doing my head in, but these changes seem to have stabilised it
I have a question ... What if Vegas starts to freeze when I add more than 3 video tracks? (photos and GIF)
That usually means your PC isn't strong enough to read all that efficiently
Finally! Thank you so much!!
love you man u helped me alot
Did help a lot! Finally I can edit without crashes every 10 minutes. Thanks very much!
Again... TH-cam clearly wants me to follow you so I just subbed 3 days 3 topics in a row lol