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Audioon 11/20/2023
Hey VP, leave my microphone alone!
Or maybe first try resetting Vegas Pro back to its default settings as per https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-reset-vegas-pro-to-default-settings--104646/ ... but any custom Vegas Pro settings will be lost. I just went to my system restore via Acronis. That is much easier for me as I keep most files off of my system drive and takes less than 5 minutes. I have a lot of custom VP settings and key bindings so that would have been a bigger pain to re-set up. And I get a fresh feeling PC every time I do it! Although this particular backup is less than a week old as I just purchased VP21. I have been using it for a few hours now, and no popups blocking my playback so far (fingers crossed). First thing I did was disable all microphone access from the start in Windows, so hopefully it should never be an issue.
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Audioon 11/20/2023
Hey VP, leave my microphone alone!
Going to try the nuclear option. Restore my system to the way it was when I installed VP21 a few days ago. Before the wireless headphones/microphone were ever introduced to the system.
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Audioon 11/20/2023
Hey VP, leave my microphone alone!
Have you tried the available audio device options Options/Preferences/Audio Device (tab)? Usually, Microsoft Sound Mapper is the least likely to cause problems assuming that Manage Audio Devices is set up approrpriately in Windows Control Panel. Also, is there any setting in 'Default audio recording device' that might need to be turned off? This is exactly what my preferences screen looks like. No default audio recording device available to select. But yet.... still errors.
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Audioon 11/20/2023
Hey VP, leave my microphone alone!
My wired microphone-less headset has arrived. VP still keeps giving me this error. I cannot use the program for more than 5 minutes in a row before having to restart. There are NO microphones connected to this PC... I am running into issues with this. I am waiting for a new wired headset to arrive, but currently have to use my wife's Bluetooth headset to edit with and it has a built in microphone. At first I noticed the audio quality drop significantly at random times using Vegas Pro (20 and 21). After research I realized that the sound quality drops when the microphone is enabled to share bandwidth.So now I have blocked microphone use through windows system settings. Great, that problem solved. However, now Vegas constantly is preventing my play back with a popup error and I have to re-start VP to be able to play on my timeline again. My project s are large and take a few minutes to load every time. Is there anywhere WITHIN VP to block microphone access? Why does it want it at all? I never ever record anything directly to VP, so this is a function I do not need.
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Audioon 11/20/2023
Hey VP, leave my microphone alone!
I am running into issues with this. I am waiting for a new wired headset to arrive, but currently have to use my wife's Bluetooth headset to edit with and it has a built in microphone. At first I noticed the audio quality drop significantly at random times using Vegas Pro (20 and 21). After research I realized that the sound quality drops when the microphone is enabled to share bandwidth.So now I have blocked microphone use through windows system settings. Great, that problem solved. However, now Vegas constantly is preventing my play back with a popup error and I have to re-start VP to be able to play on my timeline again. My project s are large and take a few minutes to load every time. Is there anywhere WITHIN VP to block microphone access? Why does it want it at all? I never ever record anything directly to VP, so this is a function I do not need.
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Audioon 8/21/2023
No audio FX / Plugins are working
I used Acronis to revert to my fresh windows installation from 8-16 and the audio plugins now seem to work. I have done nothing inside of Vegas since I created this backup. All my own settings tweaks came before this. Yesterday was the first time using it as I had a wedding on Saturday to start working on. So... good news is it works... but still don't know what the real issue was. If anyone else has any ideas, feel free to share as I have a feeling this might happen again.
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Audioon 8/21/2023
No audio FX / Plugins are working
I just did settings reset with no change. It did keep my keybindings as I set them before. Not sure if this is suppose to rest as well. Other settings seem reset. EDIT: No this did not help fix the issue. I am using Acronis to back up to my freshest windows install from last week and see if that fixes something.
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Audioon 8/21/2023
No audio FX / Plugins are working
Thank you for the screenshot. It is definitely not checked. I will try the settings reset. I did a lot of my own tweaking, I hope I can remember how I had it set up!
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Audioon 8/21/2023
No audio FX / Plugins are working
Trying to use VP 20 this week after a fresh windows install due to a new motherboard. When re-installing Windows, did you elect to do a clean install (i.e reformat the C: drive and not save any files) or do a 'save' of existing documents etc? If the latter, maybe that has upset Vegas Pro in some way. Try resetting Vegas Pro back to its default (factory) settings using the process outlined here: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-can-i-reset-vegas-pro-to-default-settings--104646/ The re-install was 100% from scratch. I wanted to make sure everything installed was native to the new motherboard. Hi @hambonio, Is "Bypass all audio FX" enabled in the 'Options' menu (or toolbar icon). I could be blind frantically looking for that option. Were exactly is it located?
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Videoon 6/19/2023
VEGAS Pro 20 Build 411 General Thread
Download speed was blazing! Not expecting that especially coming into this 4.5 hours after announcement when the downloads have historically been atrocious. Thank you! Have not used it yet, but hoping it all works well.
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Videoon 5/14/2023
Is there an "Always in Front" option?
Do you have the Windows Task Bar visible? Yes I do. But it is stuck in front. I do not want it stuck in front. It is only that one project so I figured it might be an option somewhere that I bumped. I still want the window to be easily visible as I am constantly moving things from folders and between program instances. Simply minimizing is not working efficiently. Window TopMost Control can help you make Vegas always on top. https://www.sordum.org/9182/window-topmost-control-v1-3/ I do NOT want it stuck to the front/top. EDIT: For clarification, at the current state of my project I can have 5 instances running. Don't question my madness, this is how I roll! Knowing exactly where each instance is sitting is important. Even when I close and open that project the problem persists.
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Videoon 5/6/2023
Video Preview window vanishes when opening Color Grading panel
In Color Grading Mode On (Color Grading Panel being ON), go to View>Window>Video Preview (Alt+4) the Video Preview tab could be accidentally goes somewhere / being hidden between the tabs: I reverted to an old system state with Acronis and seemed to fix it. If I see this issue again I will check that out. I can kind of do it in reverse but I have to uncheck both preview window and Trimmer window. Both seemed to disappear before at the same time. Not sure how I would have accidentally checked these, especially both of those.After looking closer and trying to restore those windows I cannot get the windows to dock as stacked as they were before. If that makes sense. One window is above the other. Not an issue though because I never use the trimmer window anyhow so I can just keep that off.
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Videoon 5/5/2023
VEGAS Pro 20 Build 403 General Thread
I updated v.20 in order to fix the "can't boot with WIFI enabled" glitch and now I've got a new graphics glitch that has never happened with any other version of Vegas or the previous v.20 I was using. The preview screen will randomly display this for the .mp4 video I'm working on. I'm using a new PC specifically built for video editing with an NVIDIA 4080 graphics card, I just updated my NVIDIA Drivers to try to fix it (no help). Windows 10 Pro, 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K, 64GB Ram. I do have the graphics accelerator on in Vegas Pro, that's the whole point of having this high-end video editing PC. If there's any other info I can provide to troubleshoot this issue let me know. Once that "blank/fuzzy screen" preview screen starts, I have to close the program and reboot; Sometimes changing preview screen quality, like from "good" to "preview" fixes it, but the quality of the preview screen setting does not seem to affect whether that "fuzzy screen of death" occurs of not. Please advise. What motherboard are you using? Just a little hunch here. I built a new PC in Oct 2022. VP19 and VP20 were both having weird glitches that grew more and more apparent and then to the point that I could not even load VP19 or VP20 unless I reinstalled it. After loads of troubleshooting I figured out this was caused by using “AsusSetup.exe” to install ANY driver for the motherboard. After I did a clean Windows install, I manually installed the drivers with the .bat and .cmd files in the drivers folder, and everything worked perfectly. Something is up with ASUS and how they install the drivers. I can still replicate that issue to this day. Yes my CPU is AMD, but again, this sounds quite familiar. Thread here: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/asussetup-exe-any-on-7950x-system-kills-vp19-vp20-literally--137702/#ca861384
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Videoon 5/5/2023
VEGAS Pro 20 Build 403 General Thread
Users of Voukoder may find that build 403 crashes when you try to render. My machine does (but mine's ancient). Workaround is to use a different encoder. I've not tried poking at Voukoder's settings yet, but I have upgraded to the latest version and it's made no difference. I've not found that. Are you using X264 or x265 or GPU encoding?You have both the plugin and the connector installed for VP 20? https://www.voukoder.org/forum/thread/783-downloads-instructions/ If it's NVIDIA "For using NVENC (SDK 12) encoders driver version 522.25 or later is required." I am getting 100% complete system crashes (blackout to reboot - no BSOD) When I try rendering H264 10-Bit with Voukoder. I have tried tweaking about 10 settings and system crashes every time. I was able to get an nVenc render, but do not see a 10-bit option anywhere on there. I used MagicYUV for a 10 bit file but it is monstrous. I just need to pre-render some multi layered clips for use in a project so trying to keep at max quality for the project. I also tried rendering a normal clip and system also crashes.R9 7950x RTX 3090 Voukoder 13.1 and reinstalled/reconnected again after crashes to see if it helped, it does not.
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Videoon 5/4/2023
URGENT - VEGAS PRO OPENING PROBLEM
Thankfully, we've got a backup (Vegas pro 8 - which I personally LOVE. For some reason, we can't seem to get Vegas 8 to load on our main system which uses windows 11, and it would only load sporadically with our windows 10 os...apparently, the .net frame required is no longer supported on windows 10 and 11??? When I tried downloading VP11 the other day it kept telling me the download was corrupted but it was only doing that while installing .net 3.5 SP1. So I went to Microsoft directly to install that .net version and then I was able to download and install VP11 just fine. Its pretty ugly though - there is no scaling so if you are on a higher res monitor (I am on 4k) it is a PITA to try and read everything. Anyhow, just as proof of concept you might want to try downloading directly from Microsoft then try VP8? I am running Windows 11 and it works just fine. I have a VP8 disc somewhere, but no idea where it is anymore and I don't believe the service center goes back that far. If it does ( I cannot log in right now) I don't want to add congestion anyway to the servers just to find out.With that, I can confirm that both VP11 and VP13 work just fine without the issues of VP19 and 20. I was not expecting otherwise.
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Videoon 5/1/2023
Any way to purchase VP13 license? Yes I am serious.
I was reminded of the downward-sloping Demand Curve and the upward-sloping Supply Curve graphs from Economics 100B. You may well be in the red area of the curve. With apologies to the folks at Saylor Academy who are just trying to do some useful work. I've had my first cup of coffee, now and I'll move on to some useful work. Glad I am "somewhere" in the red! To John's point, if I had an extra PE4 license, I'd be asking $500 or more since you can no longer get a license from Maxxon. Fortunately, I had purchased an upgrade license to PE4 for around $100. After Adobe went to the subscription model, versions of Photoshop and Premiere were selling for $1500 or more. As an aside, the only version of PE I regularly used was the original by Singular since it was more accurate in that it enabled sub-frame placement, unlike the later versions of PE which are only accurate to the nearest frame. I guess this is how I feel about my Acronis license (x5). I use this as often as I install VP13 just to roll back Windows. Thankfully I have a mostly recent version that works flawlessly (2020). Shortly after they joined the ranks of subscription service and no longer offer perpetual licenses. I will never give this up!EDIT: I tried installing VP11 again. I always had issues before because it told me the download was corrupted every time I tried downloading from the service center. After watching closely today I realized it was only the Microsoft .net 3.5 SP1 that was having issues and stopping the installation. So I went to Microsoft separately and installed it by itself then VP11 installed just fine. However, PE 3.5 does not show up. And the scaling on that version does not play pretty with 4k.
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Videoon 5/1/2023
Any way to purchase VP13 license? Yes I am serious.
Since you have so many Vegas Pro licensed versions from the MAGIX era of ownership (VP14 and later) and you say that you have a Sony sourced VP13 version, then why not go to your MAGIX My Account and under My Products you should find your serial number for Vegas Pro 13. But then your original post didn't list Vegas Pro 13 as licensed so maybe it was a trial version. It would seem that you are between a rock and a hard place. If Pluraleyes 3.5 is so important, then perhaps the high asking price for a 2nd hand Vegas Pro 13 is probably worth it, particularly considering that you've apparently got around 10 years of use out of - it would seem - a non-licensed version of Vegas Pro 13. There are no download links under trial versions I have requested over the years but they still show up as a trial that I used in my account. Only links for versions I have a license for are available. Not to worry though, because I still have the original program file from the trial. @hambonio If all you need a V13 license for is audio syncing, you might consider the HOS tool AudioSyncR. Unlike PE, it was designed specifically for Vegas and offers features not available in PE. Here is a link to the home page which describes ASR and provides a few demos. There's a 30 day trial period. https://tools4vegas.com/home/ BTW, I did a quick search on Ebay using "sony vegas pro 13" and found only 1 hit--Buy it now for $595 and a starting bid of $295 which is outrageous. I tried HOS a while back but don't remember it working quite as well. I will look at it again. Thanks.
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Videoon 5/1/2023
Any way to purchase VP13 license? Yes I am serious.
Hi @hambonio, I would think the safest way to legally obtain a Vegas Pro 13 key/license is to purchase one on the secondary market though Amazon or eBay. I cannot speak to the safety of other platforms that sell antiquated video editing software, but if those other websites have a good reputation and safeguards in place to prevent scammers, you might want to see if they have the program. 😉 The good news is I still have the original VP13 software that came directly from Sony's site - so the program itself I know is clean. I just need a way to activate it. It looks like I may be out of luck as anyone selling a license seems to be in the $300-$500 range. Then I would have to fully trust that on top of that the key I would be receiving would be able to be fully transferred to me. Not sure I can stomach that route. It seems like an outrageous amount of stress and price to pay to activate outdated software just to use ONE outdated plugin.
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Videoon 4/16/2023
New project to use for benchmarks...
Thanks. I did try temporarily setting to 25% yesterday and was getting glitches all over the preview window. I set back to 5% and they were still there. I restarted VP20 and still there. The only way I was able to completely drain that from the RAM it seems was to restart my PC and now working fine again at 5%. Good and bad to know its not likely my system, but VP. I was just trying to see if anything had improved going that route since I built in Oct.
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Videoon 4/15/2023
New project to use for benchmarks...
I should mention that for a while I experimented with dynamic ram preview when I built this system. I WAS getting a lot of renders with weird glitches if I increased it too much, especially in the top 15%-20% of the screen. So I just set it to 5% now and that seems to play back just as smoothly as anything I had set 10%-50% of my RAM. Maybe that has to do with non QVL RAM, I don't know. But it was messing with my renders. I don't have any issues otherwise and any RAM tests I have done have all passed, and I have not seem to have any issue at 5% DRP.
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Videoon 4/14/2023
New project to use for benchmarks...
I uploaded a couple of results from the VP16 project. Also watching hwinfo with all these renders today I realized how bad mainconcept is. With VCE and NVENC the CPU stays below 110W and under 70C. With Mainconcept I was hitting 235W and CPU was hitting my target max of 90C almost the entire time. Not efficient at all! Also I loaded the VP20 project again and tried some Voukoder renders. H264 NVENC and HEVC NVENC. CQ of 15 then CQ of 23 for each. Each of those renders landed in the 1:10-1:15 range. I guess the HEVC render surprised me the most. I don't do a lot of that within vegas, but use HEVC through Handbrake to compress all my raw footage when I am done with a project for archiving, and it is not nearly as fast. Playback of the rendered files were at full framerate.
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Videoon 4/14/2023
New project to use for benchmarks...
@hambonio Thanks for that. It appears your CPU has an iGPU (Radeon Graphics) which is how you did a VCE render, so I changed no to yes for integrated graphics If VCE requires the integrated graphics then I guess I used it. I have it turned off everywhere else. I never do VCE renders anyhow. Is it right that you had dynamic ram preview at 3232 for 2 runs and 2121 for NVENC? It should be 3232, sorry typo and was a late night. I have it set at 5% from 64GB RAM. If you disable legacy AVC do you get any better performance? As is you are almost at the top of the list which is expected for hardware as good as yours. As far as I know, Legacy AVC really only affects timeline playback right? I tried with NVIDIA enabled for renders and they were pretty much identical as using Legacy AVC and I know my timelines play much smoother with that option enabled. Hmm, odd about the blackout glitches. Perhaps try some benchmarks/stress tests on the GPU and update to the latest studio driver (released yesterday) and see if that helps? Your power supply has plenty of headroom for the 3090, right? It can have very high transient spikes from what I've read. I use a 1200W power supply and the current power supply is less than 6 months old. I do have warranty through Microcenter on the RTX 3090 until November so I will just keep a watch on it. It is only a minor annoyance at the moment. If it does get bad enough I can pretty much almost do an even trade for a 4090. I also have a PC with a Ryzen 9 3900x and an RTX 3070. That one I am nearly positive is giving me transient spikes as a couple times a day for the past 6 months just black screens and restarts on me. That is also a 1200W PSU - and the 2nd PSU in that build with no help. Oh also 2nd motherboard (It was a Crosshair VIII Hero, and now a TUF). So it seems I am troubleshooting a lot of things and not finding the root of the problem. Silver lining is I put a cheap CPU and RAM in the Crosshair VIII Hero now, and it is working great as a NAS with a ton of SATA ports available inside and 2.5GB ethernet. I have a warranty on the RTX 3070 until next March. I am just trying to get as much life out of these as possible before I am annoyed enough to return the GPUs. Oddly, the restarts never happen when the PC is being moderately/heavily used. It almost always happens when there is light use like just web browsing.For the record I don't have exact timings but I did try this project on that PC last night before I headed to bed and the Mainconcept was ~2:30, and nVENC was ~2:00. I never was able to write them down or try multiple renders as it is a shared PC and my wife was using it at the time. But if I get a chance I will run all these on that PC as well. For VCE vs NVENC, the latter has some kind of bottleneck in VEGAS that results in modest speed reductions. If you use NVENC through Voukoder it loads the GPU more consistently. Still all your times are excellent so I think you can use whatever one you prefer. Voukoder is pretty much all I use anymore. I think I had a bit faster render (and higher quality visually) when I tried it last night but also did not write it down. I figure that is not in the test project as it is not native to Vegas. If I also remember my first NVENC render with MagixAVC was 1:55 but after that they were much faster. So I am also curious to see whether I can get a better time with the 3070 with multiple runs. If you feel like doing a second benchmark there's one linked in my signature that works in VP 16+. It is also GPU intensive but with different Fx. I'd just do a AVC UHD render and my guess is you'd be at the top of the list. I'm curious if your system could play that one back at full framerate (essentially breaking the benchmark as once you're at 25fps systems can no longer be ranked). I will have a look at this project as well.
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Videoon 4/13/2023
New project to use for benchmarks...
I just uploaded my results after coming across this benchmark thread. My RTX 3090 (assuming it is the GPU) has been blacking out all my monitors randomly for a couple seconds a couple times a day lately. No driver crash reporting or anything and everything seems to run well after it recovers. So I think the GPU is just getting bad. With 26 total renders of the whole project in various ways the only issue I encountered was one VP20 hang during a VCE render. All my NVENC renders were fine. I watched over each render and never noticed any glitches. From the looks of the results so far it looks like CPU is king so far for renders. That 4090 is sure looking nice though...
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Videoon 1/23/2023
Graphics card suggestions
I'm using a 4090 with a 7950x.Trust me, Vegas isn't utilizing either piece of hardware to their potential at all.3060ti is a good card for Vegas at the moment. I have a RTX-3090 paired with a 7950x and it runs no better than my system with an RTX-3060 paired with a 3900x
hambonio
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