Constant crashing, freezing, lagging, and generally bad performance

freddiebox wrote on 12/19/2019, 10:48 AM

I will make this short.

I've had it up to here with this editor crashing during editing, freezing during rendering, and slowing down to a crawl when doing fine tuning. Posting here is my last resort before I look for different alternatives to video editing.

I mainly use Vegas Pro for job related videos, but also for my gaming hobby. When working I only use Vegas for simple slide shows but even that it can't handle without crashing at least a dozen times. And rendering a gameplay video is almost impossible with the renderer freezing several times during the process.

I've tried full reinstalls, disabling GPU acceleration which only made it worse, sliding down the preview window quality to the lowest possible setting, and trying different rendering profiles but to no avail.

Vegas Pro 16.0 (Build 424)

Windows 10 x64

ASUS PRIME Z390-A,

Corsair RM750X V2

Intel Core i5 9600K 3.7GHz 9MB

ASUS GeForce RTX 2060 6GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC

Corsair 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz CL16 Vengeance

Samsung 850 EVO 1TB

Comments

Grazie wrote on 12/19/2019, 11:25 AM

@freddiebox - I’ll also make this short: What is the MediaInfo of your material? What are your Project Settings? Kinda need this....🤔

freddiebox wrote on 12/19/2019, 11:35 AM

@freddiebox - I’ll also make this short: What is the MediaInfo of your material? What are your Project Settings? Kinda need this....🤔

Media material? Mostly PNG images, and video files are mp4. Project settings is the the default 1920x1080 29fps. Render settings is also the default Magix AVC/AAC MP4.

j-v wrote on 12/19/2019, 12:29 PM

Location of the Vegas 16 Program file, your source material and your paging file?

freddiebox wrote on 12/19/2019, 1:53 PM

Location of the Vegas 16 Program file, your source material and your paging file?

Location for my executable:

C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 16.0

The source material sits in a folder on my desktop.

The paging file sits in the root of the C-drive.

fr0sty wrote on 12/19/2019, 2:05 PM

One thing I always try first, update your GPU driver. Make sure you use the studio driver.

What generated your mp4 media? mp4 is not a codec, but a wrapper format that can contain multiple codecs within it, so it doesn't help us to just know it's an mp4 file. the program mediainfo will give us a report of what we need to know, so download it and give us that report.

j-v wrote on 12/19/2019, 2:09 PM

When your drivers are all uptodate, the only reason could be that all has to happen of one harddisk ( as I can read) and could you, if it is possible, try to us also a extra SSD drive for Windows and Programs and put your source and renderfiles to the other harddisc.
And edit not to hasty with such a set-up.

set wrote on 12/19/2019, 3:19 PM

What is the source of these MP4s?

If it is Android-cellphone recorded videos, be careful with them too, as they can be the source of problem as well!

I had some crashes as well when editing those MP4 in my Asus ROG Strix Hero II GL504GM Gaming laptop - (probably a variable-frame-rate issue.)

Musicvid wrote on 12/20/2019, 5:46 AM

Have you checked out this potential bad actor?

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/new-cause-of-vegas-hangs-stalls--118181/

wwjd wrote on 12/20/2019, 6:14 AM

disable so4compound.dll