VEGAS Movie Studio 17 Platinum crushes when adding mp4 files to the project.
Also using Add-Arrange Media button crushes the timeline which changes to story board.
Zooming the timeline is very confusing to compare with previous version. (12)
Is any solution? Most of my files are mp4...
That depends on the used codec in that MP4.
@Tadeusz-Niewolik To tell us more about your problem mp4s we need media info https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/
Below are samples media info from my two different sources.
File #1 with variable bit rate and file #2 with the constant bit rate.
Both are crushing VEGAS Movie Studio 17 Platinum, and the same efect is when I try to open any of my old projet files *.vf
General
Complete name : VIDEO FILE #1
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Sony PSP
Codec ID : MSNV (MSNV/mp42/isom)
File size : 161 MiB
Duration : 1 min 23 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 16.2 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-06-21 08:01:31
Tagged date : UTC 2020-06-21 08:01:31
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L4
Format settings : CABAC / 2 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=6
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1 min 23 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 16.0 Mb/s
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.309
Stream size : 159 MiB (99%)
Encoded date : UTC 2020-06-21 08:01:31
Tagged date : UTC 2020-06-21 08:01:31
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : xvYCC
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 1 min 23 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 46.875 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.27 MiB (1%)
Encoded date : UTC 2020-06-21 08:01:31
Tagged date : UTC 2020-06-21 08:01:31
General
Complete name : VIDEO FILE #2
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (isom/mp41/mp42)
File size : 2.93 MiB
Duration : 13 s 767 ms
Overall bit rate : 1 785 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2020-01-14 20:28:09
Tagged date : UTC 2020-01-14 20:28:10
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.1
Format settings : 1 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, Reference frames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=15
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 13 s 767 ms
Bit rate : 1 722 kb/s
Width : 480 pixels
Height : 848 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 0.566
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.141
Stream size : 2.83 MiB (96%)
Title : Core Media Video
Encoded date : UTC 2020-01-14 20:28:09
Tagged date : UTC 2020-01-14 20:28:10
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Codec configuration box : avcC
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC LC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Low Complexity
Codec ID : mp4a-40-2
Duration : 13 s 766 ms
Source duration : 13 s 816 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 59.0 kb/s
Nominal bit rate : 64.0 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 99.1 KiB (3%)
Source stream size : 99.4 KiB (3%)
Title : Core Media Audio
Encoded date : UTC 2020-01-14 20:28:09
Tagged date : UTC 2020-01-14 20:28:10
@Damon-Thomas Try turning off Hardware decoding in the File I/O tab of the Preferences.
This is working - I was able to open *.vf project, but render as function made crush.
The same is with Make Movie