V23 render crashes and render freezes now back again!

Mindmatter wrote on 9/16/2025, 7:25 AM

The first 3 renders of my project were fine. The last one yesterday evening was fine. I had it shut down PC after render, For some reason V23 then renames and resaves the project with the extension "Rendershutdown". Why? I pray to god it didn't corrupt the file in any way.Today I didn't change a thing except correct a few events and add an EQ to an audio file. Now V23 either freezes at 20% or crashes at 80%.

I had one single crash today with - you guessed it - BCC optical stabilizer. I then just kicked it out and it's not even in the project anymore.

Same old error report, svfx, IO etc etc

Also, I just canceled a render because I had forgotten an edit, and V23 then just crashed and disappeared.

At any rate, I'm seriously getting annoyed now. This does not make any sense anymore.Why were the first 3 renders just fine?? It's like Vegas 23 corrupts itself and accumulates some sort of errors somehow over time when you work with it. And why does V21 render OK, and 22 and 23 crash? I'll probably have to try and reinstall and see if that helps.

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Dexcon wrote on 9/16/2025, 7:42 AM

... and add an EQ to an audio file

A native Vegas EQ FX or a 3rd party EQ FX? Either way, which audio EQ FX was added?

Also, after an editing session, do you save a backup of the project .veg file to drive such as an another internal drive, an external HDD/SSD, memory card or stick, or the Cloud? Or use Advanced Save under the Tools menu? Or even rename the project (e.g. v1, v2, v3) after an editing session? Doing so means that a corrupted project file - while annoying - can be alleviated by going back to the backup project file saved at the end of the previous editing session.

Reyfox wrote on 9/16/2025, 7:52 AM

I don't agree with you on Vegas corrupting itself. I've been using it every day since its release, and never an issue exiting the software and having it change the name of the the project. Never. And since you, at least for the moment, are the only one reporting this type of issue, maybe something with your installation of Vegas and/or Windows? Have you run sfc scannow?

You seem to continue to have the same issues version to version. Problems with boris FX Optical Stabilizer.

Here is the version of Optical Stabilizer that I have.

Mindmatter wrote on 9/16/2025, 8:03 AM

@Dexcon yes I always save twice, each on separate drives. What happened here was I had automatically "last project on open" feature on, so I continued working on the version V23 had saved the night before without noticing it.

A native Vegas EQ FX or a 3rd party EQ FX?
It's a plugin called modern EQ, which was already on several audio events. I just added it to a couple more.

@Reyfox I don't have another logical explanation though. V21 renders the project just fine, so that does point to a V22 and 23 issue, wouldn't you agree? Why does it not render without crashing after 3 good renders anymore?
The BCC is not the issue here, as I mentioned I threw it out and don't use it in this project after the crash.
The issue is unpredictable crash behaviour that is NOT present in V21 with the exact same project.

Reyfox wrote on 9/16/2025, 8:11 AM

@Mindmatter, without having your exact project to test, I'm not sure that anyone can give a definitive answer as to why you are experiencing this issue.

Is it only with this particular project?