Sudden consistent freezing and crashes while rendering

Ardat wrote on 8/14/2022, 12:46 PM

Hello,

The past week or so Vegas 19 and 20 (builds in my signature) have begun crashing or freezing while trying to render. Whether using the native renderer or the Voukoder plug in the result is the same. The CPU usage dips down to 6.20 or 6.30 and it just freezes up. Every time the CPU usage goes to that number, and it often seems to get stuck in the same spot. I had luck earlier in the week by rebooting, crossing my fingers, etc. Even this morning it was rendering fine multiple times but now it freezes every time. I am doing a lot of layers and some effects but the project had rendered fine earlier in the day so I'm not sure why. When I was having trouble before it would sometimes crash or freeze and sometimes not without changing anything in the timeline. I know I might be pushing it with what I am asking it to do but I'm not sure why it would render sometimes but not others.

Also I have to force quit the program. I try and cancel the render but it just ends up frozen after doing that as well.

Has anyone seen this problem before. Does that 6.30 CPU usage number and freezing up seem at all familiar to anyone?

Thanks in advance if anyone can be of help.

Comments

Former user wrote on 8/14/2022, 1:06 PM

@Ardat Hi, there's been posts about new RX drivers being problematic but if your project render freezes at the same point each time, select that area a little before & a little after, try rendering just that region, that'll save you having to wait while it renders to the point where it gets stuck, , either way have a look at that region where it does get stuck & see what effects you have, try turning just 1 at a time off then try render it again until you find the problem effect. I repeat only change one thing at a time, turn one thing off & try render, if it gets stuck or not turn that thing back on & turn another effect off, so you're only ever turning one effect off at a time.

Ardat wrote on 8/14/2022, 1:38 PM

Thank you very much, I'll try that that now.

Ardat wrote on 8/14/2022, 1:51 PM

Worked great, thank you again!

Former user wrote on 8/14/2022, 3:38 PM

@Ardat 👍 Just curious, what was it that was stopping the render?

Ardat wrote on 8/14/2022, 6:50 PM

@Former user It was a chroma key with show mask only checked to make it appear all white.

Former user wrote on 8/14/2022, 8:52 PM

@Ardat Ok, I added a few clips & on a few i added Chroma Key with show mask only ticked,

Magix AVC Mainconcept & (NVENC) render blasted through no problem

But Voukoder H.264 Good Quality (Recommended) flat lined when it got to the clip with Chroma Key - show mask only ticked,

Cancelling render eventually led to Vegas freeze/crash