Rolling VP23 project back to VP22

thesammy58 wrote on 1/3/2026, 4:38 PM

Is it at all possible to open a project made with version 23 in version 22? 23 has introduced irreparable bugs for me which I've tried to power through for a few weeks since I paid the money, but it's getting worse now and I'm hoping there's some sort of way I can open this project back up in 22 without losing all the editing progress I've made in 23. I've heard you can copy/paste stuff on the timeline between versions but that everything will lose their FX and properties. Just looking to see if I should bother reinstalling 22 or if what I'm looking to do is impossible. Thanks.

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3POINT wrote on 1/3/2026, 4:46 PM

Copying timelines from VP23 to VP22 should work normally, only Track FX/Track motion etc cannot be copied. Fx on events etc are copied.

thesammy58 wrote on 1/3/2026, 5:08 PM

Copying timelines from VP23 to VP22 should work normally, only Track FX/Track motion etc cannot be copied. Fx on events etc are copied.

Thank you! Is it safe to have both versions installed at the same time?

3POINT wrote on 1/3/2026, 5:25 PM

Copying timelines from VP23 to VP22 should work normally, only Track FX/Track motion etc cannot be copied. Fx on events etc are copied.

Thank you! Is it safe to have both versions installed at the same time?

Yes, no problem. You should have also both versions running to be able to copy/paste from VP23 timeline to VP22 timeline.

jetdv wrote on 1/4/2026, 7:14 AM

Thank you! Is it safe to have both versions installed at the same time?

@thesammy58, my most recent laptop has VEGAS Pro 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 installed.

3POINT wrote on 1/4/2026, 7:50 AM

23 has introduced irreparable bugs for me which I've tried to power through for a few weeks since I paid the money,

Which build are you using of VP23, 356? The previous build 302 works quite well, at least on my system.

thesammy58 wrote on 1/5/2026, 1:23 PM

23 has introduced irreparable bugs for me which I've tried to power through for a few weeks since I paid the money,

Which build are you using of VP23, 356? The previous build 302 works quite well, at least on my system.

302 currently. 356 did not resolve my issue and actually caused new problems but it seems that's why it was rolled back anyway. I've been editing with CPU-only with 23 and as soon as nested timelines are introduced it's basically unusable lol.

walter-i. wrote on 1/5/2026, 2:44 PM

If you're having problems with this, I would recommend not using nested timelines. I also had problems with this in several versions of Vegas. Try rendering the individual projects and then merging the files using Shutter Encoder (freeware).

MutantPike wrote on 1/5/2026, 7:40 PM

23 has introduced irreparable bugs for me which I've tried to power through for a few weeks since I paid the money,

Which build are you using of VP23, 356? The previous build 302 works quite well, at least on my system.

302 currently. 356 did not resolve my issue and actually caused new problems but it seems that's why it was rolled back anyway. I've been editing with CPU-only with 23 and as soon as nested timelines are introduced it's basically unusable lol.

Hi there,

i might have maybe slightly unrelated question to the topic of this thread.

I am also thinking about moving my project from 23 to 22. My project relies a lot on "AI Smart Masking 2.0" and it seems that there is a know problem in 23 while using "Precision: High, Slow" settings of this VFX. I was thinking that 23 will handle masking better but I was wrong, while 22 seems to have no problems with the plugin/effect...

However, my question is, does anyone know when MAGIX might release the new update? Did they announce anything etc?

Thanks