Thanks for the help but……I have researched this problem for days. Nothing solves it. I have had numerous problems with the software crash, freeze, hang, crash freeze, bugs…. You name it. The reviews on Amazon for Movie Studio 17 are abysmal. If you buy a product it should work. You shouldn’t have to spend hours trying to solve problems the developers did not or did not want to solve. I have a project in Movie Studio now that I need to render and once I can do that, I am uninstalling movie studio and boycotting Magix for good. Their products suck. They have created a lot of ill will in the video producing community and they don’t seem to care. They offer NO support and and NO updates. They deserve to go out of business. They are truly despicable bordering on a scam.

unhandled exception 0x0000000005

A Google search of the error code shows that this error code has been around for many years and the common suggestion is that it usually relates to problems within the computer or OS (e.g. a faulty driver, a corrupt registry file, damaged RAM, etc). There is nothing to suggest that this error code occurs with any particular software like VMS7 or other MAGIX product. The following is a link to Microsoft's Community page re that error code and what to do to check for any corrupted system files:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/application-error-0xc0000005/6224ae45-a251-4f21-b076-74524618d00a

A search of the forum via the search facility shows only 3 hits before your post re this error code, one being in 2003 and the other two being in 2013, and the cause with all three appear to have been related to other software on the computer (QuickTime in 2 cases).

It may possibly be that you are venting your dissatisfaction at MAGIX when the reason for the error code could well lie elsewhere.

EDIT: Even though the OP wrote the error code as being '0x0000005', it is likely '0xc0000005'. Using this as a search keyword on the forum results in many hits - https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum-search/?query=0xc0000005

@John-Teves If you want your problem solved then you need to provide some information. It's probably something peculiar to your system, which we know nothing about, as others don't suffer what you claim to be experiencing.

Over to you.

I am running version 223 of Movie studio 17. I am running the latest update version of Windows 10., I have an AMD Radeon graphics card. I am using only movie studio plug ins. I have 16 GB of RAM and a 5 TB hard drive, quad core intel processor. My system should be more than capable of running this software. The video I am using are m2ts files. I beg to differ that I am the only one suffering from this problem. If you do a net search there is more than one video with possible solutions. The Vegas support center also refers to possible solutions. Amazon reviewers have brought up a myriad of problems. This software has great features however it has stability problems.I have been trying to render a 12 minute video for 4 days. Needless to say I am frustrated. I uninstalled and reinstalled the software. No joy. In each case the software has to be terminated via the task manager. I have made changes to the internal settings as recommended by other users. Nothing works. Do you have any potential solutions?