Vegas 22 and Voukoder

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Howard-Vigorita wrote on 8/17/2025, 8:03 AM

@Howard-Vigorita

From the github page: "These connectors require voukoder 2.3 or later."

Do yoy know where I can find voukoder 2.3 or later?

Jøran

That same github user has another page where it looks like there are 158 voukoderFREE versions archived. Just click on his name in the upper left of his connector page to see all of his other ones. Looks like they were all forked off the original Voukoder github pages that have since been removed.

Sadly, those aren't packages that can be used for install. Maybe a programmer can, but not a normal end user. Any chance of getting a hold of the last free version? I can't afford to pay that much for a rendering plugin.

@Torrboll The user mentioned above has archived what looks like every free connector-msi that Voukoder ever released. If you're interested in writing your own, however, there's no source-code that I see for the connectors. Only for the library itself. I suspect that Voukoder might be under an NDA for its Vegas connectors. Also, I have no idea whether Voukoder is OK with this user continuing to make its connectors and library available after they've removed them from their own web site as well has their own github account. Other than the fact that they appear to have been forked regularly on github as released over the past 5 years so Voukoder should be aware of it.

Cielspacing wrote on 8/18/2025, 3:36 AM

@Howard-Vigorita

From the github page: "These connectors require voukoder 2.3 or later."

Do yoy know where I can find voukoder 2.3 or later?

Jøran

That same github user has another page where it looks like there are 158 voukoderFREE versions archived. Just click on his name in the upper left of his connector page to see all of his other ones. Looks like they were all forked off the original Voukoder github pages that have since been removed.

Sadly, those aren't packages that can be used for install. Maybe a programmer can, but not a normal end user. Any chance of getting a hold of the last free version? I can't afford to pay that much for a rendering plugin.

@Torrboll The user mentioned above has archived what looks like every free connector-msi that Voukoder ever released. If you're interested in writing your own, however, there's no source-code that I see for the connectors. Only for the library itself. I suspect that Voukoder might be under an NDA for its Vegas connectors. Also, I have no idea whether Voukoder is OK with this user continuing to make its connectors and library available after they've removed them from their own web site as well has their own github account. Other than the fact that they appear to have been forked regularly on github as released over the past 5 years so Voukoder should be aware of it.


The mentioned user's (FORARTfe) voukouderFREE actual software page cites a GNU General Public License v2.0 that allows the original software use plus changes to be made to the code. So it all appears as legit. Its continued availability backs this idea. Both of his vokouder related pages are classified as "Public archive".

For yet unaware potential users, Github pages typically hold actual download files at the very visible "<> code" green button. Just a click on its arrow head, opens the menu where to download the zipped file the page is about. In this case, as mentioned above in this thread, to make voukouder work with VEGAS there is an additional "connector" that needs to be installed. It is available from FORARTfe's other voukouder related page.

EDIT; However I also failed to find a voukouderFREE built installer in FORARTfe pages. I will appreciate if someone may pm a download link to the missing core installer.

ac6000cw wrote on 8/18/2025, 4:26 AM

Sadly, those aren't packages that can be used for install. Maybe a programmer can, but not a normal end user. Any chance of getting a hold of the last free version? I can't afford to pay that much for a rendering plugin.

A hint - try searching for 'voukoder' in the The Internet Archive Software Collection - https://archive.org/details/software

I'm in the situation that I tried a trial of Voukoder Pro a while back, but I couldn't work out how to replicate the settings/processing chain/functionality in Voukoder Classic that I'd been using for while. So when the trial period expired I decided it wasn't worth spending the money to buy a Pro license and went back to using the Classic version.