Vegas Pro 22 and BorisFX Silhouette Compatibility issues???

BioGames wrote on 9/24/2025, 2:42 AM

Hi everyone,

I hope you are having a great day!

After ages on manual masking in Vegas 22 (Build 250) or using AI Smart Masking 2.0 (Which I find quite inefficient and slow, but nevertheless I was very happy that it was introduced by MAGIX), I was finally excited to use BorisFX Silhouette (Silhouette 2025.0.2, 20250710.055134, Build: 251).

However it seems like it might be suffering some compatibility issues.

Silhouette interface works perfectly fine, and it identifies objects or silhouettes no problem.
However once I finish the workflow in BorisFX Silhouette interface and go back to Vegas 22. There are 2 things that can happen.

1. Either Vegas 22 crashes in the timline/preview, cause It struggles to show the masked video (extremlly laggy, or no preview available, or basically fails to apply the mask in the preview (the preview settings/resolutions are set to that of the video)).

2. Or Vegas just crashes during rendering.

This is one of the crash reports I managed to get:

Problem Description
Application Name: VEGAS Pro
Application Version: Version 22.0 (Build 250)
Problem: Unmanaged Exception (0xc0000005)
Fault Module: C:\Program Files\Common Files\OFX\Plugins\BorisFX\Silhouette 2025.0\Silhouette.ofx.bundle\Contents\Win64\Silhouette.ofx
Fault Address: 0x00000000B5DCBEF5
Fault Offset: 0x000000000006BEF5

Fault Process Details
Process Path: C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 22.0\vegas220.exe
Process Version: Version 22.0 (Build 250)
Process Description: VEGAS Pro
Process Image Date: 2025-04-29 (Tue Apr 29) 16:59:48

Additional information:
For video recording I use MP4 format with NVIDIA NVENC H264 Hardware acceleration.

My PC Specs are:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF (3.20 GHz)
RAM: 64 GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 16GB

I would really appreciate any help!

Thanks in advance!

Comments

Gid wrote on 9/24/2025, 3:16 AM

@BioGames This is a post I made on the Boris forum last yr - March 24

marco - Silhouette/Optics Product Manager

Silhouette does not officially support Vegas. However, it worked a few versions back and something must have changed in Vegas or Silhouette.

https://forum.borisfx.com/t/silhouette-opened-from-vegas-adding-image/18261/2?u=gid.joiner

BioGames wrote on 9/24/2025, 3:38 AM

@BioGames This is a post I made on the Boris forum last yr - March 24

marco - Silhouette/Optics Product Manager

Silhouette does not officially support Vegas. However, it worked a few versions back and something must have changed in Vegas or Silhouette.

https://forum.borisfx.com/t/silhouette-opened-from-vegas-adding-image/18261/2?u=gid.joiner

Thanks for your reply @Gid

That is interesting... and quite disappointing. As you and some people on the thread pointed out, the marketing of Silhouette would imply that it is somewhat compatible with Vegas...

I found the following video about Silhouette use in Vegas.

And at the beginning of the video, he mentions that Silhouette 2024.5 is required for the process, and he seems to be able to achieve desired outcomes... I wonder what version he used...

From what I understand, you did not manage to get it working?

Gid wrote on 9/24/2025, 3:55 AM

@BioGames Hi, I don't know, I'm still on Silhouette 2023.5.4 & have the standalone version (+the plugin), it does what I need & after that conversation on the Boris forum I haven't or should I say didn't need to upgrade it.

The Boris website doesn't show VP as a compatible host.

That video you shared is interesting, but on a side note there's a Boris Particle Illusion video from I think last yr where the presenter refers to Vegas as 'Sony' Vegas. I sometimes wonder how in sync they are with Vegas as a whole...

I think you'd need to make a post on the Boris forum, as in my comment above - if you ask about Vegas on the Boris forum you will get a reply & they will help but it might be a little bit lackadaisical, whereas if you ask about Adobe AE you'll get their full & undivided attention 🤔

BioGames wrote on 9/24/2025, 4:03 AM

I still remember Vegas logo showing on BorisFX website some time ago.

I might just post the video I sent here and inquiry how is it that it work there.

Gid wrote on 9/24/2025, 4:10 AM

Yep , It still shows on other products like Mocha but not Silhouette, in that post I shared there's mention of VP still is on the site but marco says he'll get the site updated, I'd need to read it properly but I'm off to work now.

PS. From my experience Silhouette rarely gets mentioned on this forum so yep take it over to the Boris forum 👍

BioGames wrote on 9/24/2025, 4:12 AM

@BioGames Hi, I don't know, I'm still on Silhouette 2023.5.4 & have the standalone version (+the plugin), it does what I need & after that conversation on the Boris forum I haven't or should I say didn't need to upgrade it.

The Boris website doesn't show VP as a compatible host.

That video you shared is interesting, but on a side note there's a Boris Particle Illusion video from I think last yr where the presenter refers to Vegas as 'Sony' Vegas. I sometimes wonder how in sync they are with Vegas as a whole...

I think you'd need to make a post on the Boris forum, as in my comment above - if you ask about Vegas on the Boris forum you will get a reply & they will help but it might be a little bit lackadaisical, whereas if you ask about Adobe AE you'll get their full & undivided attention 🤔

May I ask you please, does Silhouette version that you are using provides the option as in the video I sent?

Also thanks for all the replies, I really appreciate!