Vegas is Possessed

Dallas-Petenbrink wrote on 6/2/2020, 3:19 PM

So Vegas has become unusable. I can do every edit I want. Pan/Crop, add video FX, etc, but then when I try to render all hell breaks loose. It starts flashing and it flashes video parts and pieces that are further down the timeline out of sequence, but what's really weird is that if you cancel the render, then all those weird flashes and out of order video are still there if you arrow through or just try to preview your video.....It even completely erased and reset my titles back to "Enter Text." WTH is going on? It worked great a month ago when 17 Pro was installed, but now I can't use it to create a video. Please help?!?

Precision 5820 Tower X-Series

i7-9800X

32GB Ram

Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 8GB

Vegas Pro 17 (build 452)

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Steve_Rhoden wrote on 6/2/2020, 5:02 PM

Because something on your system has been recently installed or updated, causing this conflict !

RogerS wrote on 6/2/2020, 10:16 PM

I've had that when dynamic ram is set to a value other than zero. The problem was just the preview window, the files were still where they belong on the timeline. I don't see how it could erase text.

For rendering I suggest turning off GPU preview acceleration and turning dynamic ram to zero. There may be something more wrong with your system, though if you're seeing the project itself get affected. (do save frequently and create different versions of your project in case of data loss)

AveSatanas wrote on 6/2/2020, 11:08 PM

1. GPU Acceleration off

2. Have you tried different rendering techniques, CPU only renders?

3. That "Flashing" and "Out of sequence" thing you mentioned should have nothing to do with Sony Vegas. (I could be wrong but if so this should be seen by a mod)

4. Is your pc overheating? Looks like you've got a pretty beefy system. But are you taking care of the heat situation.

5. What are you rendering and in what format and give a little bit more detail

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 6/3/2020, 12:58 PM

@Dallas-Petenbrink Might want to also make sure Vegas is still set correctly to select the video board and use something you actually have in File I/O... I noticed the selected board in Video properties changed spontaneously after an update once and their File I/O has new choices which might not default to hardware you actually have. Suggest you also go to the Dell service and support web page, enter your service tag number, and get your firmware and drivers up to date. There may be issues with video drivers which the new update makes greater use of.

TheRhino wrote on 6/3/2020, 4:46 PM

I've been using Vegas for paid work since 3.0 but always wait until the updates are mature before jumping onboard with the latest release. For instance, I just started using V17 for paid work a few months ago - prior to that I stuck to V15... However, immediately after updating to 452, I was having serious crashing during routine editing (source files were mostly AVID DNxHR or ProRes intermediates & renders were intermediates, HEVC & MP4...)

So... I reinstalled my Intel 630 onboard iGPU driver (26.20.100.8141) & then the new AMD VEGA 64 driver (20.5.1-may27). While I was at it, I uninstalled QuickTime & reinstalled it... During this process I realized Windows 10 had previously automatically installed a different Intel iGPU driver than the one I want to use... Dang it Windows 10... Previously set Internet to "metered" & paused updates for as long as it allows but it still finds a way...

Just finished a 2 day paid project & smaller 1/2 day project & all is well. IMO Windows updates & Vegas updates are always a gamble, so make regular image backups when things are running smooth... I use Acronis TrueImage which is scheduled to make periodic backups to my NAS at regular intervals...