Crackled sound and video freezes

John-Vere wrote on 4/11/2025, 6:44 PM

I have produced 100's of videos before. Today after editing for 12 hours I render a new video and it first is audio crackles, then the video freezes but the audio keeps playing? My computer is optimized for Audio and Video production. There is nothing different about this project. It is simple. A live recording of me and then I add pictures using a second track. Rendering is using MAGIX HEVC/AAC MP4 HD 1080p 29.97 NVENC just like its always been. Project plays just fine with no glitches.

I updated my NVIDIA Ge Force RTX 3060 just to see if that was it, nope.

My Motu M4 audio driver is up to date. Windows is up to date. I made a video yesterday no problem? so what is it that can cause a project to go south and how can I salvage 12 hours of work?

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Steve_Rhoden wrote on 4/12/2025, 3:36 AM

Since you have altered nothing on your system recently, then something was automatically updated which is now causing this... Hence my speculation it's a Windows automatic update.

But just in case, try doing a full reset of Vegas by holding down Ctrl+Shift during the Vegas start up. When done, reboot your system.... Try that and see if it helps.

John-Vere wrote on 4/12/2025, 9:58 AM

Thank you for your reply.

Yes Windows did update on April 9.
So it seems that my video driver might have been corrupted. I re installed it and things got worse. Then all videos would not play. So it’s not Vegas for sure.

It’s been two years since I built this computer and it’s become pretty messy. I decided to just re install W11 and start fresh.
All my data is on 3 other drives.

This morning I will start to re install apps but only as I need them. There was way too many things I never used.

I imagine Windows has installed a video driver so I’ll see if videos will play now.
 

Im reluctant to download the proper video driver from the manufacturer.


Vegas will be one of the first apps I install and I’ll see how fast it renders.
It was interesting that it normally took 10 minutes to render a 10 minute video.
Yesterday after I updated the video driver the same video took about 5 minutes to render?

andyrpsmith wrote on 4/12/2025, 12:35 PM

John, there have been many reports of screen corruption from the new Nvidia drivers released since Jan 25, the recommendation is to roll back to the driver released in Dec 24 - 566.36. I must say I have not seen this issue (RTX 4080 Super). It maybe worth a try (it is also suggested to use the driver removal utility first to remove all traces of previous drivers). Here is a recent video the issue was also causing problems with a video editor (not Vegas).

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(Intel 3rd gen i5@4.1GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, 1080Ti GPU, Windows 10) Not now used with Vegas.

13th gen i913900K - water cooled, 96GB RAM, 4TB M2 drive, 4TB games SSD, 2TB video SSD, GPU RTX 4080 Super, Windows 11 pro

John-Vere wrote on 4/12/2025, 2:29 PM

Thanks. This morning I first opened a video and it played fine. That issue is now solved. Then I just installed my audio interface driver, a few plug ins I use in Vegas then downloaded and installed it. I did not install any video drivers.
Vegas renders super fast and everything works great. So hopefully it will stay that way!

It actually was good to reset Vegas to the default layout. A while ago somehow the master bus got moved to the bottom and I couldn’t figure out how to put it back on the up right.

Question? Can you assign a keyboard shortcut to apply Picture in Picture to a clip? I can’t find any information about this.

jetdv wrote on 4/12/2025, 3:13 PM

Question? Can you assign a keyboard shortcut to apply Picture in Picture to a clip? I can’t find any information about this.

Probably the only way to do that would be to write a script that applies the PIP effect and then assign that script to a keypress.

John-Vere wrote on 4/12/2025, 8:40 PM

Thanks I’ll look into that.