Video freezes towards the end in Vegas Pro, but Premiere Pro is fine

loker-m wrote on 3/29/2025, 2:05 AM

Hi, I recently got back into Vegas and am using it to edit gaming footages. I'm having this issue where my video frame freezes towards the last 1 - 3 minutes. The audio is fine. If I render it, I'll see the freeze frame in the last minutes. When I put it into Premiere Pro (trying to move from this to Vegas), the footage plays fine. No problem. Not sure what the issue is :x

The footage is in h264, about 10gb, and 1h 30m in length. I've tried using Handbrake to change the video to AVI, but still the same problem.

I recently built a new PC so I have a fresh install of Vegas and Premiere Pro. Haven't changed the settings or preferences besides audio hardware. The version of Vegas is ver 22 build 239.

The PC has a Ryzen 5 7600x and a RTX 3070 with 64gb DDR5 RAM.

Here's a video example of the issue:

Please let me know if you need any other information. Thank you.

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Dexcon wrote on 3/29/2025, 3:14 AM

It looks like that there is just the one audio event on the audio track of a long project. It might be that if it is a .wav file the file exceeds ,wav size specs. If you go to Options/Preferences/File I/O (tab) in Vegas Pro 22, check the checkboxes for "Render large Wave files as Wave64" and "Allow Wave renders up to 4 GB" and see if that fixes the issue.

For more on this, go to the user manual (Help/Contents and Index - or hit the F1 key) and go to the Preferences menu and then the 'File I/O tab' topic where there is information about these 2 .wav settings as well as another .wav issue.

Cameras: Sony FDR-AX100E; GoPro Hero 11 Black Creator Edition

Installed: Vegas Pro 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 & 22, HitFilm Pro 2021.3, DaVinci Resolve Studio 19.0.3, BCC 2025, Mocha Pro 2025.0, NBFX TotalFX 7, Neat NR, DVD Architect 6.0, MAGIX Travel Maps, Sound Forge Pro 16, SpectraLayers Pro 11, iZotope RX11 Advanced and many other iZ plugins, Vegasaur 4.0

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C drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD

D: drive: 4TB Samsung 870 SATA SSD (used for media for editing current projects)

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loker-m wrote on 3/29/2025, 1:23 PM

It looks like that there is just the one audio event on the audio track of a long project. It might be that if it is a .wav file the file exceeds ,wav size specs. If you go to Options/Preferences/File I/O (tab) in Vegas Pro 22, check the checkboxes for "Render large Wave files as Wave64" and "Allow Wave renders up to 4 GB" and see if that fixes the issue.

For more on this, go to the user manual (Help/Contents and Index - or hit the F1 key) and go to the Preferences menu and then the 'File I/O tab' topic where there is information about these 2 .wav settings as well as another .wav issue.

Hey,

I enabled the two options you told me to do and restarted Vegas, but I'm still having the same issue. You made mention that I have WAV files, which I didn't realize since the audio file isn't separated from the MP4.

It got me to check the properties of the file and saw that the video format was in AVC and there was something called mxcompoundplug in it. Went to search that up and saw a post here talking about how they had enabled legacy AVC decoding, so I tried that. Now the last minutes of the video is running fine.

I think it's fixed now? Until I find another problem anyway haha.

Thank you for your response, it helped :)

RogerS wrote on 3/29/2025, 7:17 PM

If you can share a sample file with this problem we can try to get it fixed. For NVIDIA GPUs the newer decoder is faster and more stable overall.