Project not opening - crash at 42% loading

adimatis wrote on 5/11/2020, 10:19 AM

Hi Friends,

I am quite angry... I finished yesterday a project and today needed to open it to render it.

And it wouldn't load now. :(

It stops every time at 42%. I am pretty sure is at the point where I used the Vegas Stabilization plug-in. Such a bummer!!!

Turning off the GPU did not help.

Reinstall Vegas did not help.

Resetting to default preferences did not help.

Is there a way to bypass some or all plugins when loading? I am pretty sure it is the stabilization plugin...

:(

Am I left with 3 hours of edited material unusable?!

Do you have any advice please?

Thanks!!

Adi

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adimatis wrote on 5/11/2020, 11:28 AM

Well, I found a way to "bypass" the freeze point.

I went to C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 17.0\OFX Video Plug-Ins\MagixCVFx.ofx.bundle\Contents\Win64 and I tried to rename the MagixCVFx.ofx file into something else, but that did not help anything - the error will just display the modified name.

Then I just moved the file completely out of the folder.

That worked.

I could open the project. There was an error message the Vegas could not find the plugin... It was the Stabilize indeed. I just dismiss it.

I will try now to render it and then, once I am done with it, I will move the MagixCVFx.ofx back.

This is SOOO FRUSTRATING!!! If is not the GPU, it is the so4compound, if not that then it is the video driver, if not that, then the stabilizer. There is always something... :(

I guess I should expect this problem again...? Even though never had it before. Man...

adimatis wrote on 5/11/2020, 3:12 PM

Alright, for the sake of giving a solution here, just in case anyone else out there might encounter the same situation, here is the conclusion:

I managed to render the complete content of the project, so in a sense I have that peace of mind.

I moved back the MagixCVFx.ofx into it's original folder and after restarting Vegas, the Vegas Video Stabilization plug-in was back in the list.

I imported a short clip and applied it. It played nice and smooth. I saved the project and re-open and everything was alright.

So, I need to narrow down this whole situation to one or more of the following:

1. In a project with fewer clips/events, I guess Video Stabilization is alright and does not create problems. I do not have enough testing on this, but I'd make that supposition, which of course might be wrong.

2. In a project with hundreds of clips, for a total of 3.15 hours, it managed to crash the whole project at loading.

3. How it was applied might make a difference. In the crashing project I applied it as MediaFX, while in the one-clip project as EventFX. Again, because this is not supported by multiple testing, might be completely irrelevant.

4. The old Stabilize plug-in (Mercalli 2, right?) never gave me any headaches, quite the opposite, it was very reliable, faster and easier to use. The new one I guess it is much more complex, but hence much prone to crashes and problems.

5. On one hand, I am grateful Vegas is so modular on it's Windows file structure, because that made possible this little trick and prevented me losing soo many hours of work. How grim would've been!... On the other hand, I would trade this benefit for stable and reliable components that are doing their job correctly.

6. And Vegas team, please introduce a way for Vegas to load projects without plug-ins, a sort of "Safe Mode" and not make me into a programmer, deleting and moving files from folders, to trick the loading stage... ;)

All is good when it ends up good.