[Scott Francis]

WOW!!! I was a Vegas user from version 4 through 15, and then I left. I use Premiere Pro now, and while it is not all rainbows and unicorns, I have spent FAR less time with crashes than I ever did with Vegas. I use it daily at work and also for my own A/V business. I still keep Vegas 15 around for old projects and a here and there edit, but PP is my daily driver. I run a 12 Core I9 and an NVIDIA 1080 GPU with NVME SSD’s and standard SSD’s as well.

Recently, I edited a 10 camera mulitcam shoot, with audio, and a TON of color correction, over an hour and a half show and it NEVER CRASHED ONCE!!! I had to use proxies when doing the multicam part, but after that, I could edit in 100% full quality at all times.
While I hate PP’s audio, and LOVED my Vegas for many years, and wish I could still use it, I am not going back.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

I have had AWESOME results with the Canon Vixia G20-40 series (pro versions are the XA versions). I have had 7 of these cameras and use them in live productions as well as in the studio. You can likely find a G30 on ebay for under a grand. They shoot 1080p at 59.94fps 35mbps.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

I just got this one for some other production purposes, and it edits with Vegas pretty well. Not sure if this is above your price point or not.
bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1307536-REG/asus_gl702vm_ds74_17_3_republic_of_gamers.html

Good luck!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

15 crashes a LOT more than 14 and 14 did more than 13. I am migrating away from Vegas because I need to work and render without crashes and failures.
As a whole 15 is better, as a program that 14. However, it isn’t a killer upgrade.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

MXF files are a bit out of the norm, so WMP doesn’t play them. HOWEVER I use MXF a LOT as my render to format and VLC plays them fine. Are you using the 64 bit version of VLC?
What specs did you render to?

Also, I have found Handbrake doesn’t see both channels of MXF files and only encodes in mono from an MXF.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

Same issue here, I was TRYING to edit this past week and it was crashing nearly after every edit I made at one point. Over 40 times in a 3 hour time frame. I have given up, I have been dealing with Vegas progressively getting worse and worse with crashing over the years, and I just can’t take it anymore. I am learning Premiere at my new job, and while I find it better in some places and annoying in others, it at least WORKS!!!! I will be migrating to that… I just can’t waste time with crashes anymore having a FT editing job AND a video business. Time is precious and losing productivity at this rate is unacceptable.

Good luck…

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

It has HDMI (full sized) and miniDP, which I do not wish to use as that is also an option for Thunderbolt (which I plan to use for an external input card via an Echo Express SE1.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

YES!!!
That was the fix I used. I have had to reset my VST plugin settings numerous times for transport issues to, so this seems to help.

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

I did get it resolved, but not sure how. I believe I found some resources by Googling….

Sorry I can recall. I THINK I had to adjust some Windows 10 settings

Good luck!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Scott Francis]

If THAT is too much math for Vegas to handle, I need to move on to another NLE.

Best
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Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions