UPDATE: Vegas Pro 20 Laggy After Importing Media Files

IrishNachos wrote on 12/4/2022, 8:07 PM

It's been nearly 4 weeks since my original post and unfortunately, my lag situation has not improved. I've tried all the posted suggestions plus others I found during my search for a solution. So, for now, I will just have to live with it. I'm almost certain it has to do with the building of proxies of the imported media in the background, but it's never taken so much time and it never frozen Vegas like it's doing now. I'm not editing 4K videos nor are they larger than a few hundred Mb.

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Vegas Pro 20, build 214

Windows 10 Home Edition

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor 3.40 GHz

GPU Radeon RX 570 16 GB

RAM 64 GB

2 Tb SSD

Both Windows and Vegas are up to date. I have not made any setting changes to Vegas nor added new apps to my pc.

This problem started about a week ago, prior to that I've had no issues. When I import media files of any kind (video or audio) the files show in my project media tab normally, however, the program then freezes/lags for 5-6 minutes. Any user input is put into a holding pattern until whatever process is happening finally completes then the program is super laggy for another minute or so. This does not affect the preview window specifically, it affects everything. After this Vegas works normally. It's only naughty when adding media files.

Any idea what's causing this?

Thank you in advance.

Comments

Musicvid wrote on 12/4/2022, 10:12 PM

Post properties for a file that consistently causes the issue. My guess is that it's building a proxy, which is a good thing.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

IrishNachos wrote on 12/8/2022, 11:28 PM

Thanks for replying. You may be correct but it's never done this before. I updated my AMD GPU drivers and that helped somewhat but the issue has not completely resolved. I'm going to update every driver associated with Vegas Pro and see if that helps.

General
Name: 1960s, MEN THAT BUILT THE BOMB.mp4
Folder: C:\Users\
Type: AVC
Size: 1.36 GB (1,388,292,315 bytes)
Created: Friday, October 14, 2022, 9:50:18 PM
Modified: Friday, October 14, 2022, 9:54:36 PM
Accessed: Friday, December 9, 2022, 10:13:43 AM
Attributes: Archive

Streams
Video: 01:11:08.389, 23.976 fps progressive, 1440x1080x12, AVC
Audio: 01:11:08.502, 44,100 Hz, Stereo, AAC

ACID information
ACID chunk: no
Stretch chunk: no
Stretch list: no
Stretch info2: no
Beat markers: no
Detected beats: no

Other metadata
Regions/markers: no
Command markers: no

Media manager
Media tags: no

Plug-In
Name: compoundplug.dll
Folder: C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 20.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\compoundplug
Format: AVC
Version: Version 20.0 (Build 214)
Company: MAGIX Computer Products Intl. Co.

RogerS wrote on 12/8/2022, 11:32 PM

When media is added Vegas builds an audio peaks file and if over 4K also a proxy video. Other than that there's a new project collections feature in 20 you can disable that can cause lags when it saves.

Also you listed your CPU twice with no GPU listed.

Wolfgang S. wrote on 12/9/2022, 12:16 AM

Have you analysed the PC, using the task manager of Windows? To see better, what is going on?

fr0sty wrote on 12/9/2022, 2:51 AM

When you import the media, does it say "creating video proxy" in the bottom left corner of the screen? If so, VEGAS is set to automatically create proxies for that type of media. This can result in smoother playback for hard to decode media (when the preview monitor is set to "draft" or "preview", proxies are ignored otherwise), but it takes a while to encode them initially. Maybe the performance hit you are seeing is due to that.

IrishNachos wrote on 12/9/2022, 12:10 PM

Sometimes, but it usually will only lag for a few seconds. Now it's lagging for 25-45 seconds. It's the fact that this is a new occurrence that is puzzling me.

fr0sty wrote on 12/9/2022, 7:06 PM

The amount of time it takes to create the proxy is determined by the length of the clip it is converting when creating the proxy... are these clips longer than what you usually edit? You can also cancel the proxy generation process, there's a cancel button next to the progress bar on the bottom left... if you cancel it and it still plays back OK, then you can disable automatic proxy generation and save time.

Former user wrote on 12/9/2022, 7:22 PM

I've seen that before , a long time ago, probably VP18, uninstalling and reinstalling didn't do anything. A Vegas reset worked.

Also depending on codecs on timeline and CPU, it can be common for projects to take longer to load when GPU decoding is turned off

IrishNachos wrote on 12/10/2022, 3:32 PM

Good tips, thank you! If I reset VP will I lose my preferences?

Former user wrote on 12/10/2022, 4:29 PM

@IrishNachos Yes, and you'll have to reinstall any 3rd party plugins again, it's part of removing a Vegas that has potentially become corrupt

Ensure though it's not the automatic proxy building situation, although you should only see that on files with a resolution above 4K

My VP19b643 got corrupt, and that was like a beta VP20. I didn't have your lag problem though, just constant crashing.