Audio/Video out of sync across all project files in Vegas Pro 14

theNightFuryfan95 wrote on 6/12/2018, 10:35 PM

Hello I am desperately in need of help! All of a sudden ALL of my projects (new and old) as of Thursday June 7th, 2018, I try working on are messed up. That is, they are out of sync and not previewing like I originally had timed properly Its like everything is shifted and keeps shifting making it impossible to edit anything - even when I do the "Shift-B render". (Its like watching a horribly miss-timed disaster!) However, if I do an actual render, it comes out like I had originally made oddly, but I can't go forward in editing because its off.

Please note: This is NOT the preview lag issue with adjusting the resolution or anything like that. Its different, I've never had anything like this problem before and I have been using Vegas for 6 years. Its frustrating! I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling it, updating my drivers, cleaning up my PC, defraging. I haven't done anything major or had a windows update between the time everything was normal and suddenly fell apart. (Which was 1 day) Also, when I tried opening the files on my laptop they were fine and previewed like I had made originally too, so its got to be a problem on my PC. Please help!

Could it have anything to do with my hard drive running low on space? The only thing thats happened to my PC is its gotten more full -I only have about 80GB/1TB left. I've heard if it starts filling up performance takes a hit. Not sure if that includes software like Vegas but I am out of solutions for this, and my work is at a standstill at the moment.

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Dexcon wrote on 6/13/2018, 5:44 AM

I only have about 80GB/1TB left. I've heard if it starts filling up performance takes a hit

I've read a few times over the years that the operational HD should have at the very least 10% of unused space available for computations, temp uses, etc. 80GB from 1TB is way less than that, even more when considering that the actual useable size of a drive is quite a bit less than the advertised size of the drive (e.g. 1TB in your case).

The best way to test is to offload some of the files in storage on the HD on to another drive such as an external HD portable or desktop. After doing that, empty the Recycle Bin and then run Vegas Pro to see if the audio problem has been resolved or not. If all storage on the drive is taken up with active files for your project, then consider offloading a slab of those files on to an external HD and then redirecting Vegas Pro to the folder on the external HD where those files are located when VP opens and then raises a dialogue box saying that such-and-such file can't be found and asking if you can redirect VP to another file location.

If you computer is a laptop or similar, you might need an external HD anyway if the computer's HD is near full. If your computer is a desktop, 1TB is relatively small these days for a desktop. Can you add a D drive internal HD? - many desktops have at least one empty bay for another internal HD, and 3.5" internal HDs are relatively inexpensive these days though I suppose that depends on your country of residence.

theNightFuryfan95 wrote on 6/13/2018, 9:26 AM

Hello, Yeah I'm looking into investing into a second internal HD, SOON, but for right now thats not as important as this problem in Vegas. I'be been working on removing/moving stuff and managed to get 142/1TB free but have seen no change. I found I still have Movie Studio 12 installed so I tested an old project there and it was normal. So I no longer believe the the problem is storage and must lie in Vegas itself, otherwise it would have shifted/lagged in Movie Studio if performance was the issue.

Any ideas as to what to try next? I am literally out of solutions. Are there some settings/preferences that might suddenly be altered or something? What if I do a complete removal of Vegas? Since when I uninstall/reinstall it before it still has record of my presets/VF and stuff. (Id really hate to do this though so this has to be a last resort.)

Thank you!