Sony Vegas 12.0 Used to work, but I got a better PC and 18.0 freezes

Rika wrote on 12/2/2020, 11:06 PM

I am a fairly new video editor, and my partner and I put our money together to get 18.0, but it continually freezes, and refuses to update (Downloads the update, then freezes when trying to install). I have restarted my PC, updated my drivers, as well as a small host of other troubleshooting inside of Sony Vegas Property/ Settings, and as well as my PC's settings and properties as well.

I was wondering if I could downgrade to 12.0 again, since I don't know how to transfer it from my old PC to my new one (I had a student license for 12.0), and for 18.0 I think I bought the one that takes a year to pay off.

Please let me know, as I got this entire setup for video editing, and image editing, and if I cannot use 18.0 for more than 5 minutes for my large projects which worked fine on my old PC on Vegas Pro 12.0 (That PC unfortunately has other issues, not related to Sony/ Magix).

I would rather not refund the product, or downgrade if there is a simple solution, this started happening a few months ago, a month or two after I got Sony Vegas 18.0. I think there was an update, and ever since it never seemed to work properly.

Thank you, and have a nice day.

Windows 10
Ryzen 9 3900x (12 core, 3.8GHz)
Temporarily using a GTX 970 until the 3070/3080s are back in stock (worked fine before)
16 GB of RAM, as one stick was a lemon upon purchase (had 2 sticks of 16 GB high speed RAM)

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/RikaRoleplay/saved/#view=fnDHzy
^For other PC components.

UPDATE: (December 4th, 2020)
-I fixed the issue, I had to set all my Options/Preferences to Default, apparently 32 rendering threads fixes everything, I thought it was supposed to be 12 to match my CPU. So far, it is rendering flawlessly with only some black flashing and flickering I can probably iron out.-

Never mind, crashes randomly, just less often now.

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Rika wrote on 12/4/2020, 8:40 PM

Studio drivers are for recent NVIDIA graphics cards and optimized for stability with applications like Magix Vegas Pro.

I do not have a recent NVIDIA graphics card yet (I plan to get a 3070/3080) but atm, I have a GTX 970 as a temporary card until I can get my hands on an upgrade. On my old GTX 760, I was still able to render full HD 60 FPS footage, and now I cannot even render 29.9 frame per second footage, especially after applying transitions and special effects to the track, it always seems to freeze during rendering, or causes black flickering in the final render when I look back to preview it.

It freezes at certain points, but if I start the rendering from a half a second earlier or later, it renders the same area without issue. It is one of the most frustrating and peculiar types of freezing. Been playing with it, and it has rendered the same few seconds very differently, if at all, depending on how many seconds of footage before I had it render or skip. Always renders the same if I do the same length and footage though.

RogerS wrote on 12/4/2020, 11:57 PM

For black flickering, set dynamic ram to 0 before rendering. If that doesn't fix it, also disable GPU preview acceleration. You can reenable both when you go back to editing.

It's not so surprising that render speeds will be lower when various FX are applied. Other threads indicate Vegas doesn't find/ fully use the 3XXX NVIDIA cards yet, so maybe hold off on a purchase. Many users use RTX 2XXX cards on this forum.