Render crawls with a green screen on the preview. I hate this software

sbrx wrote on 5/21/2025, 12:43 PM

I don't know what to do anymore. I'm trying to render a video with around 28 minutes, doesn't have a lot of FX but they are continuous. It reaches 20% and the preview goes green. Then it slows to a crawl. I tried software rendering, hardware rendering, less FX, etc, same result.

I have Vegas Pro 22. I'm tired of this stupid software. It's buggy, crashes often, it's slow, and when the damn video is complete, it doesn't render. I have the minimum requirements for this software - 16 GB of RAM, RX 580, Ryzen 5 2600. I'm working on 1080p video.

I would ask for a refund if I could - I bought this software a couple of months ago to start working on YouTube videos. Thank all the saints that I don't actually have to make a living of this software. Vegas 13 used to work a whole lot better than 22.

It's just unbelievable. This is a screenshot - I had to go caveman to take it because Vegas brings the computer to a halt.

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RogerS wrote on 5/21/2025, 3:18 PM

Did you try the latest AMD driver and see if it helps?

What do the crash reports say under show problem details?

What media do you use? https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

sbrx wrote on 5/21/2025, 3:44 PM

I'll check about the media, but I don't usually get to the crash stage. It just hangs.

I've "fixed" the green screen issue, and now I have a memory leak issue. The usage just grows and grows until everything stops. Can't seem to disable GPU acceleration, as then it says a file "has changed too much" or something like it and it doesn't play that video track anymore...

RogerS wrote on 5/21/2025, 3:57 PM

For the hang you can type in "reliability" in the Windows search bar and see what the reliability history says for the crash. You can also make VEGAS do crash reports when it hangs by holding shift, going to the options menu and clicking internal at bottom. Search for "hang" and change false to true.

How did you "fix" the green screen issue?

The only memory leak I'm aware of is with the LUT Fx. I'd use the color grading panel instead of that. Is something else triggering the leak or are you using that Fx?

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 5/21/2025, 6:47 PM

@sbrx That is not normal behaviour for Vegas Pro 22, it means that Vegas is having conflicting issues with your RX 580, Ryzen 5 2600 Graphics Card or its driver etc...... I can't be more specific than that because i don't know the exact details of your system configurations.

sbrx wrote on 5/21/2025, 7:51 PM

For the hang you can type in "reliability" in the Windows search bar and see what the reliability history says for the crash. You can also make VEGAS do crash reports when it hangs by holding shift, going to the options menu and clicking internal at bottom. Search for "hang" and change false to true.

How did you "fix" the green screen issue?

The only memory leak I'm aware of is with the LUT Fx. I'd use the color grading panel instead of that. Is something else triggering the leak or are you using that Fx?

This was one of the crashes, according to Reliability feature in Windows:

Descrição
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Caminho de Aplicação Com Falha:    G:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 22.0\vegas220.exe

Assinatura do problema
Nome do Evento de Problema:    AppHangB1
Application Name:    vegas220.exe
Application Version:    22.0.0.243
Application Timestamp:    67c5d94e
Hang Signature:    308a
Hang Type:    134217729
Versão do SO:    10.0.19045.2.0.0.256.48
ID de Região:    2070
Additional Hang Signature 1:    308a61d2979112f2ccddbf0299685e01
Additional Hang Signature 2:    30d7
Additional Hang Signature 3:    30d78e2b60daafa4d0fb3ecc0cf0d98f
Additional Hang Signature 4:    346c
Additional Hang Signature 5:    346ce90843c04d114793fe40e56d88f2
Additional Hang Signature 6:    d38a
Additional Hang Signature 7:    d38ad42d920b7d5fc126181e6fe2c4f5
 

Doesn't seem to provide a lot of information.

As for the fix, honestly, I don't know. I did many things, including updating drivers, disabling GPU acceleration, enabling AVC legacy, disabling dynamic ram. Now, it doesn't crash, but just keeps raising the memory usage until it reaches 99%, and then it slows down, to the point where it renders at 1 fps, which is basically nothing and I cancel it.

I tried rendering in chunks, but even that is problematic. It finishes, but about 2/3 of the render, the video glitches:

I don't know what else to do. I do not use LUT plugins, so that is not the cause for the memory leak.

RogerS wrote on 5/22/2025, 6:54 AM

I agree this problem report doesn't provide much information. I'd file an official support request (scroll back up to the top and click support) and hopefully the specific crash message can help them.

Please provide mediainfo, too- usually success in VEGAS starts from using easy to edit media. If yours is problematic it's easy to convert it in batch with a free tool like ShutterEncoder. https://www.shutterencoder.com

Convert to output format h264 with GOP set to your framerate in the advanced settings should edit really well. ProRes works great, too.