It doesn't make any difference which device I choose. V23 is behaving very inconsistanty. The crippling non-reactivity in any form of edit or dragging events was suddenly gone after a day of work. Then some audio files that were used several times in the project were suddenly read and displayed with different volumes / wave forms, one was much louder than the others, with absolutely no change to either volume curves or fades. I also have the impression that rthe level meters and output sometimes make no sense. They sometimes are in the red, then I stop and play that part again and they are normal ( under 0db) again.

I also read in other threads that I'm far from the only one who had export crashes. Guess we'll have to see how problematic V23 turns out to be with this first version.

Could you share details on the audio type? If we had any way to replicate the issues you report it would be way faster to get them fixed. Help us help you please.

I agree with my colleague Mindmatter. I've raised this issue many times, first with version 21, 22, and now with version 23. It's very difficult to work on long projects. I bought version 23 because, as Vegas claimed, it used new engines and I thought it had eliminated this problem. Disappointment again.

@lukizap Can you share steps to replicate this issue with stereo audio files? Or link to your past post if you did it there?

As my colleague wrote, with a large number of files in a project, Vegas starts to slow down. Moving a track on the timeline doesn't work smoothly; sometimes it takes up to a second, or longer, than it responds. In my posts, I wrote about Vegas logging in during large projects. Today, I know, and my colleague confirmed, that it's caused by audio tracks, among other things. When I move just the video track, it's fine, but the audio lags. It also lags when working with reports from the color grading panel.

@lukizap Could you share an entire project then for testing? This thread is about audio in particular, not CGP or video tracks.

You both have AMD CPUs which could be a common factor.

Am I to understand that Vegas does not support AMD processors?

Certainly not. But Gid and others are reporting slowdowns with AMD when rendering so it's a guess.

What we don't have is a project, media or steps to clearly figure out what's going on and why. At first it seemed like an issue Mindmatter had with Boris. And then mainly media. And now stereo audio specifically.

and color grading

Did Mindmatter also bring up color grading? It should be easier to isolate than some of the others.

Otherwise if it's just "in this very complex project something is slowing it down" at least making a section of the project and associated media available to developers could help.

@RogerS thanks for trying to help.

I can't confirm the color grading issue, but I've noticed in the past that long, complex projects can really make Vegas choke. It's gradual, but becomes noticeable explixctely when adding stereo audio files for some reason.

I don't think I can shere this project, it's hundreds of GB with 10bit XAVCI, DJI .mov files, Fx and LUTs

Any my aplogies for the audio file showing up differently on the timeline issue, one of the copies had the normalize button on, it was too small to see that.

Does a portion of the project exhibit issues (cut and paste a selection into a new window of VEGAS?) While the reports are concerning we don't have anything to meaningfully test beyond seeing if it pops up in other projects one of us is working on.

When users state "long projects" that doesn't give any indication of how "long" the project actually is. And as requested above by @RogerS, a sample of problematic audio would be nice to test.

I have an older, but all AMD computer. The rendering differences comes down to how much of the CPU is used versus the GPU. In VP23, more of the CPU is used than in VP22, which uses more of the GPU. I don't think this has anything to do with using an AMD CPU personally.

My feeling is that if Vegas is installed in "c", this 1 or 2 seconds delay after dragging the stereo audio files into timeline. I hope all who had reported delays, have installed their Vegas software in"c" and evenafter that the problems they stated exist.

@seetharamaiah-velicheti how long are the stereo audio files? I've used stereo audio files that are either from the HUB or Smartsound and no delays in bringing them to the timeline.