Cannot drag and drop video effects plugins from the manager onto clips

Chuffster wrote on 2/4/2026, 12:07 PM

Hi,

I recently installed Vegas Pro 23 and it's been working great until today. Previously I was able to drag a video plugin/filter from the Plugin Chooser window onto the video clip on the timeline. After a crash this seems to now be impossible - I get the circle with a line through it for a cursor if I try.

I am not running it as admin and I have tried clearing the cache (running with ctrl+shift held). It appears that the Plugin Chooser window is somehow exclusive now and draging an item beyond it's own focus is not allowed.

Anyone out there had a similar experience to this?

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Reyfox wrote on 2/4/2026, 1:12 PM

Which build of VP23 are you using? I have no issues dragging fx to any clip on the timeline.

When you say "plugin chooser" window, are you referring to the Video FX tab and/or the Plugin Manager? I can drag effects from both to the timeline.

Also, I suggest that you include your computer specs to your Signature like mine below. It can be found in your Profile.

Newbie😁

Vegas Pro 23 B302 (VP18-22 also installed)

Win 11 Pro 23H2 (Build 22631.6199)

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 cores / 32 threads

64GB DDR4 3200 Patriot Viper

Sapphire RX6700XT 12GB Driver: 25.12.1

Gigabyte X570 Elite Motherboard

Panasonic G9, G7, FZ300

Boris FX Continuum Complete 2026, Newblue FX Total FX360, Ignite Pro V5, proDAD Vitascene V5 Pro and Mercalli V6 OFX

Robert Johnston wrote on 2/4/2026, 1:38 PM

@Chuffster No, you can't drag and drop from the Plugin Chooser window. Only as @Reyfox says.

Intel Core i7 10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz (to 4.65GHz), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GBytes. Memory 32 GBytes DDR4. Also Intel UHD Graphics 630. Mainboard: Dell Inc. PCI-Express 3.0 (8.0 GT/s) Comet Lake. Bench CPU Multi Thread: 5500.5 per CPU-Z.

Vegas Pro 21.0 (Build 108) with Mocha Vegas

Windows 11 not pro

3POINT wrote on 2/4/2026, 2:00 PM

As @Robert Johnston said, you CAN NOT drag and drop an effect from the Plugin Chooser. In the Plugin Chooser you can add an FX to an FX chain either by double clicking the FX or clicking the ADD Button. When the FX chain is completed, you can AD the FX chain to the event by clicking the OK Button.