Vegas Pro 20 Crashing

S1234 wrote on 6/13/2024, 5:26 AM

My Vegas Pro 20 has been crashing since I bought it one year ago. It happens usually when I make montage of different clips and when It usually starts crashing around 15 minute mark. Today it happened around 6 minute mark and I save constantly to not lose the progress. I have had this problem with previous Vegas versions too since like version 10. I have looked up a lot of tutorials how to fix this issue but none of them have helped. My PC specs should not be the problem.

GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070
CPU: i7-12700F
RAM: 32GB DDR5

I have my Vegas and all my clips stored on SSD and that should not be the cause. New Vegas advertisments are constant thing when I open Vegas but do you really expect me to just buy a new version of Vegas for 200 euros when you cannot even fix this basic problem!?

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Dexcon wrote on 6/13/2024, 5:51 AM

If the problem has existed for years, it could be an issue with the media that you are using. Please upload to the forum a detailed MediaInfo report (a free app) of an example of the media that you are mostly using. Details about MediaInfo are here: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

Also, what is the source device of the media (e.g. camera model, phone model, etc).

j-v wrote on 6/13/2024, 6:13 AM

Also give us a screenshot of your Options/Preferences/Video by using this button:

S1234 wrote on 6/13/2024, 7:51 AM

S1234 wrote on 6/13/2024, 7:55 AM

I am using OBS to record and been trying many different video codecs but it seems to not matter since it still crashes.

S1234 wrote on 6/13/2024, 7:56 AM

Dexcon wrote on 6/13/2024, 7:56 AM

The Dynamic RAM Preview setting is incredibly high (50%). Try reducing it to its default setting of 5% and see how that goes.

Dexcon wrote on 6/13/2024, 7:59 AM

Re MediaInfo, please upload a detailed "Text" view as suggested in the MediaInfo link given earlier..

RogerS wrote on 6/13/2024, 8:13 AM

I am using OBS to record and been trying many different video codecs but it seems to not matter since it still crashes.

For OBS you can try recording as fragmented MP4 (if you are concerned about it losing data) and then remux in MP4 to AVC/h264 in an mp4 container. Change keyframe interval to 1 from 0. It should work well in VEGAS.

If that still doesn't help it may be because NVIDIA NVDEC has been buggy until early builds of VP 21. You could try turning it off in preferences/file io. (hardware decoder to "none")
Keep an eye out for VEGAS Pro 22 which should continue the development of it which started in 21 and make it both faster and more stable with more media types.

I also agree with reducing dynamic ram preview- VEGAS can use ram for other things. I keep it at 10% myself as I like to make ram previews (shift + b).