There are many reasons why Vegas Pro can crash. The two most common are 1). Your PC hardware, and 2). The media you are using. Maybe if you give some information about those two features someone would be able to help you.
If you're on Steam I don't think it's possible to get another version and you can't install the one from Magix. Hopefully the current one is fixed soon for those users.
@Wolfgang S. From previous posts on the forum over the years, Steam Vegas versions (and other Steam apps/programs) have their own registration/activation processes which are significantly different from MAGIX/Vegas sourced downloads. Steam doesn't rely on serial numbers but rather a registration process that relies on the user always being connected to Steam's online 'My Account' website/system in order to use Steam Vegas at the time - and the Steam sourced download is unique to Steam and may not include all of MAGIX Vegas' features such as the ability to activate on two computers at the same time. Steam is a universe unrelated to the procedures that may apply to those same products if purchased from the original software company. To my mind in some ways, Steam is a bit like the bargain basement areas of department stores of old.
Its not dissimilar to Microsoft programs like Flight Simulator 2020 and later that require the user to be logged in to MS in order to use that program. In fact, with the latest version of Flight Simulator as already publicly previewed is that most of the program will exist in the cloud rather than on one's computer.