VP22 crashes often on re-launch BCC Particle illusion after TL play

bitman wrote on 9/23/2024, 6:15 AM

Very often, Vegas crashes when launching BCC particle illusion (PI) under following conditions:

0) Launch Particle illusion plugin from Vegas timeline and do your stuff in PI - no crash
1) Particle illusion plugin has generated whatever you need to generate, get back into Vegas - no crash
2) Play the Vegas timeline a few times with the new PI effect to judge your result - no crash
3) Launch PI plugin again - Vegas crashes

Note: Updated to the Newest Boris version Boris FX Continuum 2024.5 (17.5.4 and also NOK with older version 17.5.2)

Submitted crash report with details.

Project is a simple 2 track project 1080-25P with no audio:

- top track: empty event containing FX chain with BCC type on text + BCC PI

- bottom track: contains a background still image event

Comments

bitman wrote on 9/28/2024, 4:32 AM

Does someone experienced this yet?

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 9/28/2024, 7:08 AM

Well i avoid using BCC Particle Illusion, has always make Vegas very unstable for me.

bitman wrote on 9/28/2024, 11:08 AM

@Steve_Rhoden Indeed, but that is just it: Particle illusion plugin is perhaps a good "tool" for the developers to stress test Vegas and making it even more robust in general...

@VEGASDerek maybe an idea?

frmax wrote on 9/28/2024, 5:44 PM

Hmm, just tried it as described, but no crash either, even after repeating the procedure several times

BCC 17.5.4, Win11 Pro, VP 22-122, AMD-CPU

bitman wrote on 9/29/2024, 2:45 AM

@frmax thanks for trying!

I redid the the procedure and could crash Vegas again, sometimes it takes a while (going in and out PI, playing the timeline), sometimes pretty quick. Make sure you press the "Launch PI 2024.5" button inside the PI plugin. just opening the PI plugin will not crash Vegas.

bitman wrote on 9/29/2024, 2:52 AM

bitman wrote on 9/29/2024, 3:17 AM

Yet another crash, it took a bit longer to try and crash it (5 minutes), I show only the last bit.

bitman wrote on 9/29/2024, 3:23 AM

Problem Description
Application Name: VEGAS Pro
Application Version: Version 22.0 (Build 122)
Problem: Unmanaged Exception (0xc0000005)
Fault Module: C:\Program Files\BorisFX\ContinuumOFX\17\lib\Continuum_OFX_8Bit.dll
Fault Address: 0x00007FFC50994CC7
Fault Offset: 0x00000000002F4CC7

frmax wrote on 9/29/2024, 7:33 AM

Hello bitman,
I repeated the tests because I actually (sorry) only played with Particle Illusions presets the first time. (You should read more carefully....)
But even the new test with multiple calls via the Launch PI 2024.5 (previously also added a title with BCC type on text), multiple playback of the timeline and several changes to the particles did not result in any crashes.

Nevertheless, which could point in your direction, I had not edited the first project for hours yesterday and strange things happened when I “played” it again: The preview did not show the video under the cursor, or sorted parts of the title, changes possible, also adding more clips to the timeline still possible etc.
However, there was no crash, so no error log was written.

bitman wrote on 9/29/2024, 9:19 AM

@frmax Thanks for trying again, reproducing an issue is not always easy, especially if the systems, HW and SW, configuration, media used, etc. are not equal. It is even possible that this particular crash will never happen on your system.

In the mean time I tried if I was able to crash VP21 as well as VP22 using the same procedure. And I was able to crash it as well.