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Sony Vegas Pro 12 crashed during render process
After several years of struggling with my older computer and Sony Vegas Pro, I just built a new computer to hopefully accomodate Sony Vegas Pro 12. I am utilizing an Intel i7, 3930k, 6 core processor with hyperthreading. I have 32 gb Ram. I installed a video card that is highly touted as a great video card for video editing and rendering, the nVidia GTX570HD.
All of my system and video card drivers are the latest, as this was a new install and I updated everything.
After running my first tests with Sony Vegas Pro 12 on this new computer build, I am frustrated. If I turn on “GPU accerlation of video processing”, Vegas crashes every single time at some point during the render process. With “GPU accerlation of video processing” on, the CPU usage during rendering goes down to about 25%, according to my task manager. With the GPU accerlation of video processing” off, my CPU usage during rendering goes up, varying from 70% to 82%.
Apparently, the “GPU accerlation of video processing” relies heavily on the video card, seeming replacing the CPU performance instead of enhancing it. (Just my opinion.)
If I have “GPU accerlation of video processing” turned off, the render process completes with ease. This test is using a project with 21 tracks, with lots of text and images included with the video. My render time with “GPU accerlation of video processing” turned off for a 126 minutes video is 52 minutes. With a less than 50% render time compated to video length, I am much better off than on my old computer.
What I can’t understand, with the spec’s on my computer, is why Vegas crashes during rendering with the “GPU accerlation of video processing” turned on.
Can anyone offer any solutions to this problem?
Rich Hinkle
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -
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How much RAM have you set aside for Building RAM Previews in Preferences.
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
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Not fully understanding the impact of the “Dynamic Ram Preview max (MB):” setting and it’s relation to “GPU acceleration of video processing:”, I have actually tried several different values for the Ram setting, ranging from the default of 200 MB up to 8000 MB of the 31693 MB I have available.
Each of the attempts at rendering with the “GPU accerleartion of video processing:” turn on have failed, crashing Vegas. The last crash during rendering, with the RAM setting at 200 MB, had the following problem report details:
Problem Description
Application Name: Vegas Pro
Application Version: Version 12.0 (Build 486) 64-bit
Problem: Unmanaged Exception (0xc0000005)
Fault Module: C:WindowsSYSTEM32ntdll.dll
Fault Address: 0x00000000774432D0
Fault Offset: 0x00000000000532D0Thank you for your assistance!
Rich Hinkle
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” -
Rich,
Welcome to version 12… It only gets worse -
I have to agree with Jay here. Dynamic RAM preview shouldn’t have anything to do with GPU accelerated rendering, but who knows how wacky variables like that are tied together behind the scenes. The fact of the matter is that a lot of us are having these exact problems with 12 and we’ve been waiting far too long for them to be fixed. The people here for whom everything is working will tell you to reinstall everything and have the latest drivers and what-not, and it may or may not help anything. Those of us having the same problems as you will tell you to go back to the last build of Vegas 11 Pro. If there were a magic solution to all the problems in 12, then we’d all be using 12 instead 🙂
I’m assuming if someone is buying the full version of Vegas 12 from scratch that the SCS website lets you download older versions? Or do you need to have old registration numbers from those versions for them to work?
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[David Shirey] “I’m assuming if someone is buying the full version of Vegas 12 from scratch that the SCS website lets you download older versions? Or do you need to have old registration numbers from those versions for them to work?”
You can download and install any version of Pro 12 you want. The serial number works on all builds.
https://download.sonymediasoftware.com/current/ is the place to get earlier builds. -
Sorry, “versions” was a little ambiguous. I meant older versions like 11 and 10. Those require their own registration numbers so if you just buy Vegas 12, you won’t get access to 11, right?
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That’s correct. A Vegas 12 licence is for Vegas 12 only, nothing else.
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Thank you to everyone who gave me their thoughts. In my case, my purchase of Vegas Pro 12 was an upgrade form Vegas Pro 11, which was upgraded from Vegas Pro 9.
I have all three versions of Vegas Pro available for download from my account with Sony and well as my original disks, if that is the direction I have to go.
For now, I think I will continue to use Vegas Pro 12, with the GPU acceleration turned off. As others have stated, having to do this is really a sad statement for the Sony Vegas Pro 12 product. I have invested a lot of money with Sony over the years and really expect more.
Thanks again for letting me know I am not alone with this problem.
Rich Hinkle
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
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