Rendering problem in Vegas Pro 20 when using Color Grading

Dave-B wrote on 9/27/2022, 3:42 PM

I just upgraded to Vegas Pro 20 (version 20.0 build 139) from Vegas Pro 18 and I have encountered a problem not present in Pro 18. When using fairly aggressive settings in color grading I get a diagonal line of various colored pixels when rendering the timeline. While rendering, it is visible in the preview monitor and in the final rendered file. It is not visible while editing. The source material and final rendering format make no difference. Hardware or software encoders made no difference either. As you can see in the attached snapshot, this 8mm film needed some fairly aggressive color grading. Specifically, I was using the Auto Color Levels feature in this case. The Auto White Balance and other adjustments in color grading have less obvious errors, but they are still there. As previously stated, this did not present itself in Pro 18.

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Musicvid wrote on 9/27/2022, 4:32 PM

Are you using Intel Graphics? What is your driver version? It is a known issue and I can add your information to a support ticket I made a while back.

In the meantime, turning OFF "GPU Acceleration of Video Processing" in Preferences->Video should help.

Dave-B wrote on 9/27/2022, 5:15 PM

Are you using Intel Graphics? What is your driver version? It is a known issue and I can add your information to a support ticket I made a while back.

In the meantime, turning OFF "GPU Acceleration of Video Processing" in Preferences->Video should help.

Intel Grahpics (UHD 630) or software rendering have the same result. I'll try your solution tomorrow.

Musicvid wrote on 9/27/2022, 6:24 PM

Right. That setting doesn't affect rendering directly. It affects the processing pipeline.

Please post your Intel 630 graphics driver version. I can't add to my bug report without it.

Also see if Vegas will update your graphics driver for you. It is in the Vegas Help menu. Mine won't because the driver is in Asus jail.

Dave-B wrote on 9/27/2022, 6:41 PM

Graphics version 26.20.100.7925. No updates available.

Musicvid wrote on 9/27/2022, 6:48 PM

Thank you.

Added to my bug report.

Here is my workaround.

RogerS wrote on 9/27/2022, 7:17 PM

@Dave-B

That's a very old driver for the Intel UHD 630 (latest ones start with 31.). While Vegas can't find newer Intel drivers, Intel can. Try the Intel Driver and Support Assistant tool and see if it helps.

Custom PC (2022) Intel i5-13600K with UHD 770 iGPU with latest driver, MSI z690 Tomahawk motherboard, 64GB Corsair DDR5 5200 ram, NVIDIA 2080 Super (8GB) with latest studio driver, 2TB Hynix P41 SSD, Windows 11 Pro 64 bit

Dell XPS 15 laptop (2017) 32GB ram, NVIDIA 1050 (4GB) with latest studio driver, Intel i7-7700HQ with Intel 630 iGPU (latest available driver), dual internal SSD (1TB; 1TB), Windows 10 64 bit

VEGAS Pro 19.651
VEGAS Pro 20.411
VEGAS Pro 21.208

Try the
VEGAS 4K "sample project" benchmark (works with VP 16+): https://forms.gle/ypyrrbUghEiaf2aC7
VEGAS Pro 20 "Ad" benchmark (works with VP 20+): https://forms.gle/eErJTR87K2bbJc4Q7

Dave-B wrote on 9/27/2022, 7:33 PM

@Dave-B

That's a very old driver for the Intel UHD 630 (latest ones start with 31.). While Vegas can't find newer Intel drivers, Intel can. Try the Intel Driver and Support Assistant tool and see if it helps.

My computer apparently will only allow me to install drivers provided by HP (my computer brand). Something about being tied to the vendor. I’ve searched the Intel web site. I see no versions of the graphics driver much beyond what I have now, certainly nothing starting with 31. Do you have a link to the newer drivers?

RogerS wrote on 9/27/2022, 7:57 PM

Hi Dave, does HP not have any newer driver than that available? (though they are notorious for not updating drivers- remember that from my Envy laptop).

It is possible to install an Intel reference driver over it. I did that with my Dell.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/intel-driver-support-assistant.html

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19344/intel-graphics-windows-dch-drivers.html

Custom PC (2022) Intel i5-13600K with UHD 770 iGPU with latest driver, MSI z690 Tomahawk motherboard, 64GB Corsair DDR5 5200 ram, NVIDIA 2080 Super (8GB) with latest studio driver, 2TB Hynix P41 SSD, Windows 11 Pro 64 bit

Dell XPS 15 laptop (2017) 32GB ram, NVIDIA 1050 (4GB) with latest studio driver, Intel i7-7700HQ with Intel 630 iGPU (latest available driver), dual internal SSD (1TB; 1TB), Windows 10 64 bit

VEGAS Pro 19.651
VEGAS Pro 20.411
VEGAS Pro 21.208

Try the
VEGAS 4K "sample project" benchmark (works with VP 16+): https://forms.gle/ypyrrbUghEiaf2aC7
VEGAS Pro 20 "Ad" benchmark (works with VP 20+): https://forms.gle/eErJTR87K2bbJc4Q7

Dave-B wrote on 9/28/2022, 7:36 AM

Hi Dave, does HP not have any newer driver than that available? (though they are notorious for not updating drivers- remember that from my Envy laptop).

It is possible to install an Intel reference driver over it. I did that with my Dell.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/intel-driver-support-assistant.html

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19344/intel-graphics-windows-dch-drivers.html

Nothing new available from HP. I'll check out those Intel driver links when I get home from work. Thanks!

Dexcon wrote on 9/28/2022, 7:54 AM

My computer apparently will only allow me to install drivers provided by HP (my computer brand). Something about being tied to the vendor.

My brother recently found that out with an HP laptop he bought not all that long ago - and he's not happy and is now looking for another brand. He even had problem with Windows updates which went round in circles because of HP's control over what can and cannot be updated.

Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 & 21, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 18.5, BCC 2023.5, Mocha Pro 2023, Ignite Pro, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX10 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

Windows 11

Dell Alienware Aurora 11

10th Gen Intel i9 10900KF - 10 cores (20 threads) - 3.7 to 5.3 GHz

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8GB GDDR6 - liquid cooled

64GB RAM - Dual Channel HyperX FURY DDR4 XMP at 3200MHz

C drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

D: drive: 4TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD (used for media for editing current projects)

E: drive: 2TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD

F: drive: 6TB WD 7200 rpm Black HDD 3.5"

Dell Ultrasharp 32" 4K Color Calibrated Monitor

misohoza wrote on 9/28/2022, 8:32 AM

@Dave-B

There are 2 types of drivers. DCH (generic) and non DCH often used by OEM. You cannot simply update from one to the other. You need to uninstall the driver first and then you should be able to switch to the other one.

The latest intel driver from the manufacturer website (Acer) for my laptop is from 2017.

Musicvid wrote on 9/28/2022, 8:59 AM

My brother recently found that out with an HP laptop he bought not all that long ago - and he's not happy and is now looking for another brand. He even had problem with Windows updates which went round in circles because of HP's control over what can and cannot be updated.

Yes.

He would most likely have to uninstall his OS, wipe his hard drive back to the stone ages, and install a new non-OEM operating system. At least that's what my Asus would require in order to update the graphics driver. NO, I cannot uninstall it and reinstall anything else.

There is some encouraging indication that the Intel 620/630 acceleration bug (official bug report) may be better in a future update.

Until then, turning OFF "GPU Acceleration of Video Processing" should get him through, as it has for me for the past two years...

RogerS wrote on 9/28/2022, 9:22 AM

When I switched to generic drivers 2 years ago I uninstalled the OEM driver, installed the DCH one, checked a box from Intel saying that it overwrites any OEM specific features and that was it.

To go back to OEM drivers you need DDU uninstaller to delete all traces of the DCH driver.

For my HP I had ended up with hacked AMD drivers to get one that would be recognized by Vegas. Very annoying.

Custom PC (2022) Intel i5-13600K with UHD 770 iGPU with latest driver, MSI z690 Tomahawk motherboard, 64GB Corsair DDR5 5200 ram, NVIDIA 2080 Super (8GB) with latest studio driver, 2TB Hynix P41 SSD, Windows 11 Pro 64 bit

Dell XPS 15 laptop (2017) 32GB ram, NVIDIA 1050 (4GB) with latest studio driver, Intel i7-7700HQ with Intel 630 iGPU (latest available driver), dual internal SSD (1TB; 1TB), Windows 10 64 bit

VEGAS Pro 19.651
VEGAS Pro 20.411
VEGAS Pro 21.208

Try the
VEGAS 4K "sample project" benchmark (works with VP 16+): https://forms.gle/ypyrrbUghEiaf2aC7
VEGAS Pro 20 "Ad" benchmark (works with VP 20+): https://forms.gle/eErJTR87K2bbJc4Q7

Dave-B wrote on 9/28/2022, 5:03 PM

Update: I managed to upgrade to the latest graphics driver version available from Intel (31.0.101.2111). That made no difference. The problem persists. Unchecking the "GPU Acceleration of Video Processing" option in Vegas Pro 20 did indeed solve the pixelation problem, but rendering times with certain CPU-intensive plugins is unbearable. Specifically, I have a short :15 clip of a Super 8mm film transfer I'm testing with. Aside from color grading, I use the Neat Video noise reduction plugin which is very CPU intensive. That's the bottleneck. With GPU acceleration enabled it takes 1:30 to render with the pixelation problem. With GPU acceleration disabled, it takes over 4 minutes to render with no pixelation problem. That's waaaaaaay too long. I hope a bug fix is available soon or I'll have to revert back to Vegas Pro 18 and ask for a refund for the "upgrade" to 20. 😖

Musicvid wrote on 9/28/2022, 5:22 PM

I've copied your findings to my original bug report to the developers.

Dave-B wrote on 10/19/2022, 5:22 PM

I'm disappointed that this bug was not fixed in the new build. *sigh*

Cielspacing wrote on 10/19/2022, 6:37 PM

Graphics version 26.20.100.7925. No updates available.

Intel UH630 has frequently updated its driver.

Now in its version 31.0.101.3430/31.0.101.2111 for Xe Dedicated, 6th-12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor Graphics.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/98909/graphics/intel-hd-graphics-family/intel-hd-graphics-630.html

Dave-B wrote on 10/19/2022, 7:19 PM
Now in its version 31.0.101.3430/31.0.101.2111 for Xe Dedicated, 6th-12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processor Graphics.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/98909/graphics/intel-hd-graphics-family/intel-hd-graphics-630.html

I upgraded to 31.0.101.2111 shortly after my original post.

Dave-B wrote on 10/20/2022, 6:37 AM

I ended up reinstalling my copy of Vegas Pro 18. The bug does not exist in that version. I guess I'll continue using 18 until the bug in 20 is fixed.

Ken-Theriot wrote on 5/23/2023, 4:00 PM

I recently upgraded to V20 and now I am having that same issue! I tried turning off GPU Acceleration but that does not fix it. If I un tick the Color Grading in the FX chain, the line goes away. But then it comes back when I try to use any color grading.

Has there been any movement on this or workarounds discovered in the past 8 months?

The issue I'm having is a diagonal line through the video that flickers with flashing blue and red colors.