UPDATE BETA RELEASE: VEGAS Pro 22 BETA Build 243 Feedback

VEGAS_CommunityManager wrote on 3/4/2025, 7:56 AM

Hello VEGAS community.

We at VEGAS Creative Software and MAGIX want to provide you with the best editing experience possible and we are experimenting with different ways to help us improve the quality of our software. To that end, we are excited to announce an experimental open beta for our next update of VEGAS Pro 22. You can only find the official build here on the VEGAS User Forum. Please use only this thread to share your feedback.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

This is beta software that may still contain known and unknown issues. Do not use this, or any beta software, to work on critical projects
Use only comments to this thread to deliver all feedback. Please do not post feedback about a beta build in separate threads. This allows us to keep the feedback on this beta build separate from official released builds and allows the team to follow the feedback easily in one place
No customer support will be provided for any beta build. Support tickets created in reference to a beta build will be met with a response telling you to post feedback in this thread
This is a one-time experiment, and we will evaluate the process after this update is ultimately released to determine if we could do this again in the future

UPDATE TIMELINE

This is the first of two beta builds we expect for this update. After the last beta build, we will post a release-candidate build (RC) here. When that RC passes all internal and external testing, we will release it in the normal manner
We do not yet have an official release date for this update

ABOUT THIS BUILD

Please see the fixes and changes provided in this beta build for the next update:

Features:

Limited Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text functionality now available in trial installs
Spoken words are now highlighted in the Subtitle Generator for Text-based Editing
Support for AC3 media on Windows 11 systems with update 24H2 installed

Improvements and Bug fixes:

Portrait-mode media is now displayed properly in the preview window
Incompatible Video plugins will no longer cause VEGAS to crash on startup
Improved results with Video Stabilization for interlaced media
Black-bar fill no longer leaves a thin border around the image
The Audio FX editor now works properly with the Auto Resize preference
Fixed an issue where the Upscale FX could result in black frames with AMD GPUs
Fixed a crash which could occur when the Z-Depth interpolation mode was changed
Fixed crash which could occur when thumbnails were updated in the Project Media window
Fixed crash which could occur when automating parameters for Video FX
Fixed crash which could occur when HEVC media contained an unsupported audio stream
Event opacity/gain can no longer exceed 100% when simultaneously adjusting multiple events
HEIC images are now available in the Slideshow Creator

You may download this beta build from here:

Build 243: https://rdir.magix.net/?page=MB22YCC59GKV
Deep Learning Models 22.2: https://rdir.magix.net/?page=8I14NDT9H1TV

We look forward to your feedback.

Warmest regards,

The VEGAS Creative Software team

Comments

Reyfox wrote on 3/4/2025, 8:47 AM

Downloading now! Installation was smooth and no issues. My previous project loaded fine.

Thanks!

RockyBenetton wrote on 3/4/2025, 11:18 AM

Vegas Pro is not at all working for me. I have reached out to customer support, reinstalled the software countless amount of times, done everything but can't seem to resolve this issue.

The app crashes and hangs as soon as I open it. When I launch it in offline mode, I receive this error:

WebView2 failed initialization, error information follows: WebView2 was already initialized with a different CoreWebView2Environment. Check to see if the Source property was already set or EnsureCoreWebView2Async was previously called with different values.

I think the reason is that Vegas Hub and its online services uses Microsoft WebView2 server and Microsoft is experiencing a service outage and that is why Vegas is crashing on me!

Reyfox wrote on 3/4/2025, 11:27 AM

Vegas Hub is working for me

This thread is for the beta release unless you've already installed it.

RockyBenetton wrote on 3/4/2025, 11:43 AM

Vegas Hub is working for me

This thread is for the beta release unless you've already installed it.

I was recommended this BETA release by MAGIX support to resolve this issue. But unfortunately, it still persists. Could you perhaps have any resolution for this?

Reyfox wrote on 3/4/2025, 11:49 AM

@RockyBenetton I suggest you start your own post and include as much information, including your PC build (not general "Intel and Nvidia" see my Signature), Windows version, and have you tried resetting it.

As I wrote, it is working for me.

RockyBenetton wrote on 3/4/2025, 1:56 PM

Resetting worked up until the launch, but as soon as I accessed "online services" like Speech-to-Text, the app crashed again. It doesn’t close — it just stays stuck in that state indefinitely. Additionally, the Vegas login window won’t progress past the password screen; it keeps buffering endlessly, as if there's an issue with the cloud services of Vegas or Microsoft in the background.

I’ve added my signature and will create a new post to discuss this further.

Hoping for some positive news from Support!

I Created this forum here. I really hope I get this resolved soon!

Thank you!

@RockyBenetton I suggest you start your own post and include as much information, including your PC build (not general "Intel and Nvidia" see my Signature), Windows version, and have you tried resetting it.

As I wrote, it is working for me.

set wrote on 3/4/2025, 5:10 PM

I'm retesting the @Debbie-Whitmer's issue previously reported in https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/bad-pixelation-happening-in-vegas-pro-22-build-194--147674/

glitch still happened for this 'unfriendly-editing' media (saved livestream media).

Abubakar wrote on 3/4/2025, 10:39 PM

Lut filter uses all of VRAM and Ram the memory leak exists since the first build of Vegas Pro 22 i think. There have been reports of other video fx filters with the same problem, i really hope you guys fix the memory leak in this build, third party lut plugins just dont perform the same as Vegas Pros own Lut filter.

Reyfox wrote on 3/5/2025, 4:39 AM

I loaded one of my projects and checked the system RAM usage of VP22. I used the LUT Filter for UHD 4K 10bit 422 clip and there didn't appear to be a memory usage increase. As for the GPU, usage was low.

Hajowo wrote on 3/5/2025, 6:05 AM

Hi.

So far, including the launch of a larger project, everything went smoothly. Later more.

Irene-Constantino wrote on 3/5/2025, 6:25 AM

Why can't I use explorer in Vegas pro 22? Simply when trying to browse the folders, the program crashes or actually crashes the computer.

Reyfox wrote on 3/5/2025, 7:20 AM

@Irene-Constantino it is working on my computer. Start a new post and include the version and build number of Vegas Pro.

Your user profile is blank. No information about what your computer specs are. See mine in my Signature.

Irene-Constantino wrote on 3/5/2025, 9:08 AM

That's exactly what I can't do, since when you click on the "computer" icon to navigate through it, Vegas goes down.

Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit
- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor
- 32686 MB Memória RAM

Regarding storage, it has 2 M2; 7 SSD; 1 HDD

Reyfox wrote on 3/5/2025, 9:23 AM

@Irene-Constantino have you RESET Vegas Pro?

I still have one mechanical drive in my computer, and even that can be accessed from the Explorer.

Also, this thread is for the beta build 243. You are not using it, but 239.

Irene-Constantino wrote on 3/5/2025, 9:32 AM

Thank You

VEGASDerek wrote on 3/5/2025, 9:42 AM

Lut filter uses all of VRAM and Ram the memory leak exists since the first build of Vegas Pro 22 i think. There have been reports of other video fx filters with the same problem, i really hope you guys fix the memory leak in this build, third party lut plugins just dont perform the same as Vegas Pros own Lut filter.

@Abubakar
Do you see this problem on both of your computers?

Ralf-Wapler wrote on 3/5/2025, 12:50 PM

Dear Neal,

unfortunately the beta-release has no effect. The error (Vegas crashing when changing Audio-Bus Output) occurs further on - no change.
For your information: this error is only with windows 11. bevor changing the OS, Vegas was working fine with Windows 10

Abubakar wrote on 3/5/2025, 10:20 PM

I loaded one of my projects and checked the system RAM usage of VP22. I used the LUT Filter for UHD 4K 10bit 422 clip and there didn't appear to be a memory usage increase. As for the GPU, usage was low.

Try Editing for 5 minuets or render a video that's 5 minuets long or more with the Lut filter applied the more time you spend editing or rendering you will see the Ram and VRAM slowly filling up until it completely hangs the system, at least that's what i have been experiencing since the very first build of Vegas Pro 22 and saw some other threads from people who have been experiencing the same issue.

Abubakar wrote on 3/5/2025, 10:23 PM

Lut filter uses all of VRAM and Ram the memory leak exists since the first build of Vegas Pro 22 i think. There have been reports of other video fx filters with the same problem, i really hope you guys fix the memory leak in this build, third party lut plugins just dont perform the same as Vegas Pros own Lut filter.

@Abubakar
Do you see this problem on both of your computers?

Hello Derek, Yes i have this problem on both of my computers.

Reyfox wrote on 3/6/2025, 6:10 AM

@Abubakar I am still not experiencing this issue. I've added two LUT's via the LUT Filter, editing the video for 20 minutes now, and still no increase in memory usage. GPU RAM remained at 7.8GB used out of the 12GB that I have after . This also takes into account Firefox being open along with the Task Manager running. After restarting the project, 3.2GB GPU RAM used. I started adding various different LUT's to several videos and GPU RAM only went to 3.6GB.

Screenshot 1 after the project loads. Screenshot 2, LUT filter applied. Screenshot 3, after 20 minutes of editing, using Vegas Beat Detection, resizing images adding pan/zoom via Pan/Crop.

BONLEV wrote on 3/6/2025, 6:32 AM

my big project from about 20hours of video is still crashing when trying to open it. This beta update didn't fixed it for me. It worked yesterday but after a vegas crash it doesn't open anymore.

Reyfox wrote on 3/6/2025, 6:35 AM

@BONLEV have you tried the new public beta build? I your screenshot you are clearly showing the last release of VP22. You are in the thread for comments only on the new beta build.

RogerS wrote on 3/6/2025, 8:49 AM

@Abubakar I am able to replicate the LUT issue with 22.243. With just a 720p project and AVC media with a LUT filter attached to the events and a second on the output Fx I was able to use up all system ram and playback slows to .6fps. I didn't do any editing, just made a few cuts and played it through.

I wasn't able to crash VEGAS though. It gets within 1GB of running out of ram, frees up 1GB or so and keeps playing.

Edit: this is with my RTX4060 mobile laptop with 8GB VRAM and 48GB of system ram (see signature). I can get over 20GB of shared GPU memory in use.

and closed VEGAS:

BONLEV wrote on 3/6/2025, 10:13 AM

@BONLEV have you tried the new public beta build? I your screenshot you are clearly showing the last release of VP22. You are in the thread for comments only on the new beta build.

yes, the new public beta build. I now updated my screenshot. sorry for the confusion but it was the same error.

But another member now gave me a workaround for this!

in settings -> file I/O I have to check enable legacy AVC decoding and enable experimental HEVC decoding so this would bypass the mxcompoundplug.dll error I got.