All my Vegas effects work but when I click on Defocus to choose it the program crashes. I tried troubleshooting with Google and here but found no help. Is there a solution?
Does Gaussian Blur and/or Linear Blur also crash it?
Gaussian Blur/Linear Blur and all other effects work great.
My GPU is an AMD Radeon R9 390 Series.
And what driver version are you using for it? Note the "solution" in OldSmoke's comment in his linked thread to roll back to driver version 16.9.2.
I rolled back all the way to 16.2 and it still crashes. Now I just got the new update at 17.12 and crashes as well.
It is actually okay for I can use another blur effect it just bothers me. All my projects work accept this one and I'm thinking it is because it has a Defocus effect on one of the tracks. I wonder if there is a way to open the project bypassing effects?
I wonder if there is a way to open the project bypassing effects?
If you mean you can't get into that project to remove the Defocus FX, then disable GPU acceleration of video processing as described in section 1a of this post then restart Vegas. That should enable you to get into your project and remove that FX. Then you could re-enable GPU and restart.
Alternatively I guess the Defocus FX may have it's own .dll file somewhere below C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 14.0 that you could move or rename to disable it, but I can't find it with a quick search.
I think the Defocus FX shares a DLL with Gaussian and Linear blur and others. I think it's vfx1.dll which can be found in Program Files/Sony/Vegas Pro 13.0/Video Plug-Ins .. It seems like there are only seven DLLs for all the Sony Video effects all in that same folder.
Thanks to that excellent TIP of turning off my video card within Vegas I was able to open up that project. This is also good to know for other potential problems.
Thank you everyone! love this forum!