How To Make VEGAS Stop Freezing / Crashing And Run Faster in 5 minutes! 👨‍🏫 VEGAS 18 Tutorial

[@inspiwr]

the way you say "you could totally BREAK VEGAS" makes it so tempting

[@BrainofQuinn]

I just recently upgraded to Vegas Pro 18 and this helped a lot. I experienced my first crash and did these settings now its running perfectly!

[@BradM]

Most in-depth tutorial on this subject I've watched. Concise and informative, exactly what I needed.

[@SharkyGamess]

A hidden hero you are - thanks for the help that was very MUCH needed! Best tutorial explaining this by far.

[@ScrapyardFilms]

Glad it helped!

[@Luigikid]

Exactly I was looking for, thanks for responding ^^

[@ScrapyardFilms]

No problemo! Maybe if you're not too busy you could do a little shoutout :) Help a smaller creator grow.

[@Luigikid]

@@ScrapyardFilms Sure thing man :D

[@glosiwystapienia]

It's a pure masterpiece. So clear, so hopeful. Thanks to YOU, I didn't delete my Vegas and stopped screaming and shouting. Many thanks !!!!

[@cursedseagullgames]

These solutions all worked for me, thank you so much. I was getting so frustrated with Vegas constantly crashing or getting stuck in "not responding limbo" when all I had done was just open the program itself. Now it actually runs and I can finish editing my videos. ; w ;

[@MercySlots]

Came back a day later to see if i had any crashes after watching this video. I DID NOT! Actually so shocked, not a single crash since doing these settings, thank you so much!

[@SWAGLIFT]

In preferences -> File I/O -> Hardware decoder to use: I don´t have an option to chose a graphic card I have only OFF and Auto (Off) there even that in -> Video tab I clicked the GPU acelerator to use Nvidea . Thank you for help

[@darckdore7062]

me too !

[@brendonthemusicman]

THANK YOU!!! I was losing the will to live having upgraded to Vegas 18 (always crashing). Now got it working - thanks to your vid. Didn't even need to disable the clip thumbnails (which I find useful). Cheers - you're a legend!

[@EenGamer.]

bro I was editing 1.5 hours of raw footage, and was getting fed up with the lag, and this video helped insanely much. It will probably improve my experience on shorter heavier edited videos aswell, as someone who uses vegas multiple times a week this is just so nice

[@matyasmacke]

OMG! I fricking love you! You saved my nervs and my vegas runs much faster right now. The video preview is much smoother and vegas is no longer crashing! Thank you so much!

[@BareFinn1986]

Yes! Thank you for showing AND explaining what we are doing by changing a setting. Others just show do this, this and that, and I have no idea what I've really changed.

[@LucciHasan]

You are the best man !! I had been struggling with soo many vegas crashes. This worked like a charm

[@thunderpro-videoclip]

I just bought the Vegas Pro 18 software and thank you so much for this video. These yours great videos will help a lot in making my channel videos. Keep up good work Josh.

[@ZavxEU]

why didn't you crack it lmao.

[@vetatyy]

bruh u bought it spent all that money when you couldve gotten it free

[@JapaneseSoomi]

@@vetatyy Howw

[@JapaneseSoomi]

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[@ZavxEU]

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[@Parallel_]

This just completely fixed my preview lag in Vegas 19! Cheers bro!

[@Geezers-Gaming]

Thanks dude! I was almost ripping my head off with the random crashes whole editing!

[@MilkyCereal73]

You sir have just saved me so much time. and saved many hairs on my head from being pulled out.

[@SadaraxTutorials]

btw in step 2, when you enable those two file i/o options, i sets hardware decoder to use to auto (off), and you cant select a gpu to use.

[@Gidjoiner]

Same here Vegas pro 18, if i tick them all i get is OFF & AUTO (OFF), If i untick them it shows my NVIDIA card. I also only have one OpenCL/GL Interop, not the one for Intel.

[@luciavideo]

Lifesaver! Working on over 30 videos for a client and literally have been making a few edits, saving, crashing, reopening...saved me a lot of hassle. Sucks that Magix doesn't provide this info, but thank you for being a hero!

[@heartbreakszn]

Much appreciated, just switched from Vegas Pro 17 and I was crashing every 5 minutes so I was pretty disappointed, hopefully this does the trick.

[@damon948]

Wow. This video is a life saver. Using Movie Studio 17. Platinum and would constantly freeze on playbacks or even skimming through the video. Thank you so much!!

[@gregort.]

This is the only video that helped after 20 tutorials that didn't help, thank you!

[@WizardOfOzcarr]

Finally someone that doesn't just say "put dynamic ram to 0 and set GPU acceleration to Off"! Thank you so much!

[@MartinRockstrom]

Yes, thank you for this! I upgraded to 18 today, and like 17, it crashed all the time, which really impacts my workflow negatively. This fixed it though, thanks!

[@ScrapyardFilms]

No problem! Glad it helped!

[@WeWereYoungandCrazy]

To say this tutorial was a life saver would be an understatement. Vegas user from the very beginning. Sonic Foundry beginning. Have never had a completely satisfactory experience, but always thought they were just one version or build away from perfection. Always frustrated with GPU acceleration. It was a lot faster, especially renders, if you could just keep it running long enough to finish without crashing. So most of the time I just left it off. Just updated to Vegas 18 couple weeks ago, then a new PC build. 12 core AMD, 64GB, nVidia RTX2060, 2TB m.2 SSDs. Lightening fast, GPU unbelievable. 6 layer multicam editing at Best/Full resolution previews. But.... after a few days and more elaborate projects it started crashing. I started disabling the GPU. Running Preview Half quality res. Turning off all thumbnails on timeline. It got so bad it would barely load. Under tremendous pressure to finish a job with a drop dead deadline I went looking for answers. Then I found this video. WTF? Why did someone on creative cow not tell me about the "Open CL/GL interop" 8 years ago? Seriously? As for the RAM setting, I had played with that but always assumed it was just for RAM preview, never guessed it improved other functions like thumbnail generation. From the experiments I made it sometimes increasing the RAM appeared to make matters even worse. Other advice I was getting always started with turning OFF GPU acceleration. So to wrap this up. I followed all your direction except timeline thumbnails. Sorry I need them, lost without them. But it doesn't matter, because this rig now can play at full resolution, while building thumbnails on the timeline. Something it had never done before. thanks! big thumbs up! subscribed. joined.

[@SilverHunterN]

Thank you very much for fixing my problem. I went to another video and they said to set one of the SO4 options to false, but that doesn't exist on my copy of MS17. I had my render crash at 88% twice already. You deserve a medal for this!

[@SagnolTheGangster]

Ur my man! Not only u helped me fix the crashes but that MKV support changed my life, ty!

[@VidweII]

The settings you went into the 'internal' prefs for are right there in the vanilla prefs you show in this very video - 1:54 - third from bottom.

[@georgecatterton3514]

A decade of problems with vegas, over 14 hours on this last project. You solved my problem. These are the most underrated vegas videos out there. Nothing else worked.

[@Beduna]

I have tried out every solution for crash when previewing on external monitor, and nothing has worked until I randomly found this video and followed your steps - Thanks a lot! 💪

[@ridervoice-over5344]

Invaluable stuff man. Tried everything else and this made it work. THANK YOU

[@tvhead4185]

Youre video are a life saver! easy and clear to understand

[@hayoschroter183]

You saved my life. Now my VEGAS PRO 18 works as expected!! ThX a lot

[@MyOccasionalContent]

Thanks for save from my loop of crashing/freezing. It was painful upgrade from V14 to V18. :-D

[@ssnsanta]

absolutely amazing tutorial, love the knowledge you shared!

[@JapaneseSoomi]

same!

[@lainuzg]

I was searching for a vide explaining this! Thank you very much!

[@ericfreund3496]

Ive been using Vegas since version 3. Thanks for posting and keep up the great work.

[@gregbaldwin2481]

THANK YOU! Your fixes are spot on!

[@deluxeshowandtell]

Thank you, you saved me from so many crashes and pain!

[@RobuLuS]

This helped a ton and fixed my issues. Thanks dude

After your advices it works perfect! Thank you so much!

[@GrandmasterPantsSFM]

I think I needed this. Thanks for the tip!

[@Accolades70]

Only recently purchase VP18 and was having all sorts of issues when testing Video FX with VP18 constantly freezing, going unresponsive. I applied the settings here and have not had any troubles since. I did not apply the Video setting as I edit a lot of 10 Bit videos. Cheers

[@muhammadtalhamuftee3500]

This is literally THE FIX I needed. Thank you.

[@elcangry855]

Hey how can I make my previous window bigger?and how can I disable trim every time I trying to add a video to time line trim well take part for it

[@jarvissilvey-mcshane6935]

you are an actual life saver. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@user-np4wy1ct3q]

thank you man, you channel deserve 500 000 subscribers

[@professormiles2475]

So far huge help!

[@DanielRize]

Since first checking in with you, I've done the following 7 things, trying to get Vegas Pro 18 to do any render at all: 1) Did latest Windows 10 update 2) Did Vegas Pro 18 factory reset 3) Did NVIDIA driver update 4) Enabled legacy AVC and HEVC decoding in File I/O 5) Set GPU acceleration processing to "NVIDIA" (also tried turning it OFF) 6) Dedicated a third of available Dynamic RAM 7) Set both Open CL/GL interops to "FALSE" And --- after all that --- attempted to render several very short, basically unedited MP4s to the factory default project settings. And Pro 18 still will not render anything. Nothing at all. I should mention that Vegas Pro 14, which is on the same machine, works fine. Can you suggest any further steps. Thanks so much for all your help so far.

[@ScrapyardFilms]

Wow that's crazy that they're not being rendered. IIf you've already re-encoded the video (using this handbrake tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epqnnoidbcaFpKc and using these render settings: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmezgYh6a7-FhdU )Then I'm out of ideas. You can try posting to the official forums here: www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/vegas-pro-forum/ and see if anybody else has any suggestions.

[@filipbetker9811]

Hey, could you please tell me what to do when I have not option "NVIDIA NVDEC" (I have NVIDIA RTX 2080) in "Hardware decoder to use"? There is only "off" option

[@brentgrosvenor4613]

I am sooooo glad I discovered you. Already a huge fan. I hope these particular changes also help Vegas 18 work with MVI files from my Canon DSLR, which have never ever been a problem before.

[@MyExpatDiary]

Why my vegas takes 3h50 to render a 12min 4k video? My PC specs are i7 8550u 16GB RAM, SSD, MX150. I used the settings you recommended in your other video. MAGIX intermediate 422 proxy

[@UltraChrishy]

This video really helped alot, thank you!!

[@AuspiciousFrog]

As someone who struggled with Vegas 14 crashing, I was a little disappointed when Vegas 18 carried on doing the same thing...but this has helped so much, thanks man!! *Edit - Forgot to mention how brilliant that thumbnail choice is

[@bigbaby4lifebruce933]

about to stomp on this program till I saw this video thanks, you are the man, never had a program crash so much, and believe me I am use to programs crashing, but this!!! 3 times in about 3 minutes, after a clean install, man thank you.

[@JoZCohen]

Thank you very much! You have help me to be able to open a file that I have been trying to open for 2 hours and the computers always freeze, after doing all the steps the files are load up without any problems. You save me all the work I put into this project. Thank you. 😃🤗 Subscribed! 😉

[@jorgknuvink272]

Great video, but I have a low memory error when rendering? This mainly happened with a movie with image stabilization in it. While I even use 3 SSD drives for writing, Footage etc. Now I have turned off the support of my Nvidia 2070 and then it works? Is this also a known problem or is it something else? I really hope my questions can be answered. Thanks in advance!!!

[@cosmicgoo8074]

Thank you for the tip. My Vegas pro 18 is running better. However, I am experiencing an anomaly. Now and then, my timeline freezes. I still have audio playback and I can still save, restart and all is fine again. That is until the next time it happens. This only seems to occur after Vegas has been running for a bit. Any ideas?

[@TheRecoveryChannelToday]

Thank you! This helped a ton. Now just have to remember where to find it when I want to use HEVC ;-). One interesting thing when I did this was that the hardware decoder to use (in File I/O) was grayed out and set to Intel, not my graphics card.

[@JohnRaqe]

Hey! I use vegas on my Laptop. I have 2080 nvidia card and everything works fine until im tapping out of vegas. Everytime when im using Chrome for a sec or going in my files to find a new music to add when i than come back to vegas it freezes and it takes about 1minute to load up everything again. I dont know what the problem is... on my normal PC which has a 1060 there is no problem like that. Can you help me?

[@ProMiLle9917]

1. Go to options, then click "preferences" while pressing shift. 2. Go to General 3. Uncheck "close media files when not the active application" Now it should be fixed.

[@garrah3651]

@@ProMiLle9917 god bless you sir

[@afgan3021]

Did help a lot! Finally I can edit without crashes every 10 minutes. Thanks very much!

[@JacksWorldYT]

Any suggestions if this didn't help at all? I've tried the whole turning a processor off via the task manager too but I swear every 1-3 actions I take in vegas it does the washed out not responding screen for anywhere between 30 seconds and a few minutes & then starts working again & I'm completely at a loss. I've updated all drivers I can, checked for repairs, etc. I can't find anything that has stopped the crashes & Idk what to do anymore. It seems most frequent when I chose to remove/delete/cut a clip if that helps at all.

[@DavidescionIT]

V18 B373, I applied your settings and reboot, compoundplug.dll crashed the moment I loaded an existing project. I disabled the legacy decoders and it stopped crashing. Notice that if you enable the legacy decoders the setting _Hardware decoder to use_ the NVIDIA NVDEC option disappears.

[@ScrapyardFilms]

That is a common issue that the devs are aware of. I typically keep legacy decoder disabled if I'm working in 10bit but as soom as I switch to 8bit, I enable it for the best reliable performance.

[@stopandthinkaboutit8636]

Nice job. Truly, very good insight on helping set the software up to run better. Very happy with the results, thanks for sharing.

[@teneksi7803]

This is great, I've seen so many different suggestions but this was the first I've seen of OpenCL or legacy decoding. I'm actually able to edit without spamming ctrl+S and crossing my fingers every time I pause or undo anything

[@ChristianMusicalTheatre]

In Vegas 18, After a recent NVIDIA update I no longer see it under (in "preferences/File I/ tab) "NVIDEA card available in the Hardware Decoder pull down. It's now only Auto (OFF) or OFF. I do see it under video tab GPU acceleration. Strange. Renders are now CRAZY slow. I have 10 core PC with 132 gigs of RAM. It's a well built machine. Do you know what's up now? Thanks so much. Brent

[@Vanalleswa]

lifesaver! thanks a lot!

[@CalibersCalamityZone]

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

[@smonkenphoto]

Thanks alot for this tutorials! Much love !!

[@Dreamsofwings]

Thanks so much for this, the bits that were the same even fixed my Sony Vegas Movie Studio 18 that crashes frequently during playback. Been trying to fix this for a long time.

[@Arganoid]

I am on Vegas Pro 15. It has frozen in the trimmer twice in the last 5 mins. The shift key for the options menu doesn't seem to work on this version, how worthwhile is it to upgrade to the latest version? Does it have fewer crashes/freezes in general?

[@emptyminded9425]

Hey have you made a video on changing your audio to fix the problem of discord/ other apps audio stop working?

[@tehlfuzz6353]

it worked but it messes all the project when I set the settings as you said, why does that happen? when I revert settings back the Project goes back to what it was, what do you think is the problem? what messes it after I looked are the double checks in File I/O when I check them and restart the program the project gets fu/cked up

[@DustinRudzinski]

It's worth noting some users are reporting that after applying these fixes, they are getting errors with some projects not opening, VEGAS is asking for an internet connection even though one exists. I'm not sure which change triggered it, but one of them did, as when the user reversed these suggested changes, the bug went away.

[@WeWereYoungandCrazy]

thanks for the heads up. all good on this end, but duly noted.

[@TobyPasta]

Thanks for this. The only problem I have now after changing all these settings is that the building peaks takes a long time. It might be time for me to get a new PC as I've been editing on a laptop with a gtx 1050 in it lol

[@XMCRacing]

Maybe not so much in the more current release? GTX 1080 not playing nice after this. Can't select GPU for anything after disabling opencl. Also, turning on Legacy AVC decoding crashes even more now and getting al sorts of errors opening up current projects.

[@coffeeconscript]

This has been an absolute life saver, thank you so much.

[@RantingGreekGamer]

Thanks for the video man, very helpful!!!

[@MrWearily]

So my main issue is render freezing. I'm on Vegas pro 16 and my video keeps freezing at 7%. I took the clip, audio, etc that it was freezing on and rendered it separately. It rendered just fine by itself. I rendered the rest of my video without it and it rendered just fine. So I'm wondering why I can't render the whole thing, but when separated it renders fine for both

[@pohlpiano]

Hello, what is your recommendation for a new PC build for VEGAS Pro 17 (I currently do not plan to upgrade to newer version of the software)?

[@C0D]

This is really good.. had some good tips that others seemed to not include

[@dinozzera]

Thanks, helped me a lot!

[@MilkyTech]

I have an nvidia card and its not showing me the nvidia nvdec, any clue on how to turn it on?

[@JMTM]

So I've been experiencing lag with HEVC videos recorded with RADEON ReLIVE for eternity now. After watching so many things, all of these solutions used to fix the issues for me, including the So4 solution, but nothing would do the trick on Vegas 18. What I did was disable legacy HEVC decoding and the videos stopped lagging! Amen!

[@DustinRudzinski]

You should also add one more thing... Click on the help menu, and run the driver update utility. This will install the best recommended driver for VEGAS on your system, though it currently only works for Nvidia cards. For AMD cards, make sure you install the Enterprise driver, not the game drivers they give you by default. I just helped a user on the forums fix their issue this way, one click on the driver update utility, and their problems were gone.

[@ScrapyardFilms]

That is a good method and could definitely go in this video. I have it in the More Cool New Things video but that one won't get as much attention as this one.

[@alby6350]

@@ScrapyardFilms yo how i install the enterprise driver?

[@schifferfoto8659]

Thanks a bunch for that input too!

[@endurobalkan]

man ... you're great ... I watched tons of videos and tried to solve the problem of freezing in render on vegas 18 .... only your solution solved the problem. Please fix the title add freeze because people don't know it helps for that too. Thanks a lot my man!

[@PHMittens]

thank youuuu it helps all sony vegas creators

[@JapaneseSoomi]

I hope it helps me lmao it freezes way too much

[@door_way]

THIS REALLY HELPED! THANKS SO MUCH!! :))

[@thogan]

A friend followed your suggestion to check the Enable legacy AVC decoding and Enable legacy HEVC decoding. Later he discovered that his VP18 could not read or edit 4k all-i video files from my Canon EOS R camera. He spent a week trying to figure out what was wrong before someone on the Vegas Pro Forum told him to uncheck those settings.

[@ScrapyardFilms]

Sounds like those are 10 bit files. Means he needs to uncheck the AVC option and it will read them again. I explain that could possibly be a side effect.

[@thogan]

@@ScrapyardFilms The files are just 8 bit 4:2:0 but it is a newer high bit rate mp4 file from Canon.

[@kushkushnir]

As usual, thanks for this great tutorial!! However, when I get to the part about Hardware Decoder to Use on the File I/O tab, it says Auto (Off) even though I have a GPU acceleration of video processing turned on on the Video tab. I have a RTX 30 series card and using the Studio Drivers. Thanks again!

[@k_man]

Now that's a lot of help! Thanks!

[@mberling82]

Thanks ALOT! Helped with my every time crashings when using GPU rendering (stuck at some %..) - Happy New Year!

[@ScrapyardFilms]

Glad it helped!

[@jccamacho_13]

You definitely deserve more subs! U are legend!

[@MarijanPiano]

Much appreciated! Somehow I still do have an annoying problem: My menue like "transitions", "video fx", "explorer" etc. are lagging a lot , I always have to move my mouse on this area to make them show them up. Video Preview etc. is working fluently though, no problems there - I do use a RTX 2080. Has anyone a suggestion/same problem?

[@dragonvfx1327]

Same

[@RogerBrenon]

It's not you. Vegas 18 sucks and cant properly use the GPU yet. Lots of people complaining. Magix needs a swift kick in the ass to fix their software. Typical new version launch from software companies. They don't give a shit about stable version releases. If you have at least 32GB of ram, use DaVinci Resolve. It's free and renders put Vegas to shame.

[@MarijanPiano]

Update: Meanwhile I upgraded to a RTX 3080, but still got the same issue. The "best" solution for me so far is just to minimize the sony vegas window & open it again, then all symbols etc. are showing UP correctly again... anyways, it's still very annoying. Vegas 17 didnt have that issue, maybe i'm switching back to 17 lol

[@jiayouazhary]

idk why, but i dont have the problem. I just switched from vegas pro 17 to vegas pro 18. and my laptop is with amd 7 4800 and gtx 1660ti

[@ivanherman8984]

@@MarijanPiano have u tried switchuing dynamic RAM to 0?

[@Blaze_TBV]

Whenever i click extract as, my cursor starts using the loading but it stays like that for many minutes. is there a fix for this or is it just my pc

[@arcshotmedia4249]

Superstars!! Thank you so much. Vegas 18 was doing my head in, but these changes seem to have stabilised it

[@matigamer329]

Thank you very much for the trick now my projects open me much faster. Greetings from Argentina.

[@nworderhe]

I have a question ... What if Vegas starts to freeze when I add more than 3 video tracks? (photos and GIF)

[@ScrapyardFilms]

That usually means your PC isn't strong enough to read all that efficiently

[@DidierMartini]

Hi, i tried your tips, (didn't tried running vegas and working with it). i'm using a HD 630 intel graphics as Gpu, and by using the HEVC decoding / encoding legacy, it make very weird artifacts on my videos footage if running in draft the preview. etc... it's unusable, i had to uncheck them both. and now everything is back. will see if the open Cl for intel Gpu etc, with False will help a bit. yesterday on a 2 to 3 hours working session, i maybe crashed 15 to 20 times... where Vegas Pro 16 (my previous version) would have maybe crashed one or two.