I just received a response from support on a ticket that I opened (and discussed here with other forum users) regarding a green glitch problem when rendering MP4's with GPU support.

The resolution points to the new build as the fix...

"A new Vegas Pro 11 update is now available. Build 510 for 32-bit systems and Build 511 for 64-bit can be downloaded"...

I've got high hopes for this build! Fingers crossed.

IMmHO most tickets are considered "closed" or "solved" when a new version is released.

The release notes are quite promising, however.

I'm going to try it out now, along with the new releases of the NewBlueFX plugins.
Drum roll please.....

...downloading...

Tested, GPU accelerated rendered of MP4 now works...really nice to have that fast rendering

You still have to go easy on preview RAM and number of rendering threads when rendering to mpeg-2.
On my machine (2 x Xeon quads) some 75-100 RAM / 3-4 threads still give the fastest rendering speed.

Edit: Grrrr - but when the render has finished Vegas still keeps 1 of my CPU cores running at 100% - doing nothing...
Even when I go on editing something - Vegas is just running and eating up a considerable amount of CPU time - for absolutely no reason.

I tried a few of the things that normally caused Vegas 11 to crash, and so far, so good. It's too early to claim totally victory (as they say at election time) but the few things I've tried worked great. No crashes.

One of the things that ALWAYS made it crash was selecting the color box (or color picker) for the drop shadow color on the NewBlue Titler Pro....no crash!!!!

Another thing that usually caused me crashes was to load and unload various efx plugins (trying them out) one after the other. Again, no crashes!

Well we might not have a TOTAL winner here but IMHO we are seeing a massive improvement with this build. Thank you Sony, I take back all the cruel things I ever said or ever thought about you guys. Nice job.

Hello,

can someone tell me where i can find the change of the last 2 builds?
I searched everywhere and cannot find them.

Regards

Just checked adjusting OFX filters on my system that crashes whenever I adjust an OFX filter. No change. Vegas crashes after adjusting a couple of filters.

Rob Mack

"can someone tell me where i can find the change of the last 2 builds?"

See the Release Notes.

Just ran the JC Rendertest 2010. Was 44 seconds on my system - now 33.

Just ran Sony Press Release (car advert) benchmark:

Using test MC AVC, was 65 seconds - now 52.
Using test XDCAM EX, was 87 seconds - now 64.

As yet - No crashing at this time.
1) My crash on exit has been resolved after about 10 tries its fine.
2) My crash on certain multicam operations is now clear, so far...
3) As above, rendering is faster.

BUT the multicam limit is still restricted to 8 cams in total. After that you get very low playback fps. So back to Sony on that point.

testing continues.....

Paul.

Fixed an issue that could cause events to use the wrong media in certain circumstances (seen when project is later loaded).

I hope that means they've fixed what I think it means they've fixed.
That problem that has plagued Vegas for several years now has been a total deal breaker for the promotion of Vegas as a serious NLE in a production environment.

If they've fixed it then SCS most certainly get a "well done" from me and I'll have a much merrier Chrstmas.

Bob.

Just ran a few tests with new build. First my QuadroFX1800 (which didn't seem to be a acceleration supported card before) now shows up as an option and I have GPU accel. Playback performance noticably better. Have 12 instances of ofx up, adjusted all of them, removed them, no problems so far. I'll render to all the formats I use and see how that goes.

Had my first crash since installing the new build. I left Vegas open on my computer for about an hour, just sitting there. I came back, hit play then stop, that was okay, but then I went to move the slider bar that lists all the Media Generators on the left side of the screen, and I got a crash. It went to that semi-opaque white screen. The Media Generator that was highlighted at the time (and the preset icon showing) was the one for NewBlue Titler Pro.

I remember in Vegas 10 there was some kind of problem with the actual preset icons being displayed were causing crashes. I don't remember what the exact problem was or if it was resolved, but that could still be a factor.

Overall though, I'm seeing a lot more stability. Obviously not rock solid yet, but we're making some great progress.

Damnit

Stabilization is still broken and totally unusable.

I could have lived with that they moved the control to media FX, but why in gods name didn't they debug the feature, so that it actually worked before releasing it?

As of now, adding "stabilization" to a media, mostly means that Vegas introduces MORE shakes and jitters, than the original clip. And that even with projects of the exact same dimensions and FPS. Gah!

Well, even though Vegas crashes every time I adjust an OFX eventFX, at least my MS Natural 6000 mouse finally works right. It's nice to finally have a functioning mouse wheel.

For those of you getting crashes with things like the color corrector, did this build solve your problems?

Rob Mack

I have been a daily Vegas user since 3.0. I appreciate the hard work of SCS but generally wait a LONG time to use a new release for my daily paid work... In fact, I did not start using 10 until 10e. That said, I was hopeful about V11, backed-up the image of my OS drive, and installed this last update...

I was able to get the new build to crash within 10 minutes. Afterwards I reinstalled AVID DNxHD and a couple other codecs I regularly use and it still crashed. Updated video driver, Blackmagic Decklink driver, etc. and it still crashed.

Also, on our 6-core 980X system V11 only used 60% of the CPU & therefore renders speeds were 30% - 40% slower. Tried reducing threads, etc. and it only became slower...

So... I guess I'll keep using 10. I generally know what causes 10 to crash & have been able to live with it. (Actually it rarely crashes, but it sometimes repeats from beginning of clip at cut-points or renders single clip to black...) Do not have time to learn the bugs of 11 but will try-again with the next release or a fresh install of the OS from the ground-up which is what I had to do to get 10 to work as well as it has...

GPU acceleration is NOT available on my system with this update. It was on the last build. That is with a pretty powerful current generation nVidia card with a GB of RAM. I still get crashes every time I quit the program.

NewBlue Titler still crashing the system. 8(

Fixed my ms mouse Natural 6000 also, Man I have been waiting for that to be fixed since Vegas 9.
Still crashes on main concept mp4 render, but it now shows Open CL for the videocard.
Does not crash on exit

Luckily I'm not experiencing any crashing. However, with the new build a new 'feature' has arrived along with it: when I set Sony Glow effect on either the track or a clip the keyframes don't remain where I move them.

I can save the veg, close, then reopen, the keyframes are in a different location.

I imagine this phenomenon will happen with other effects - haven't tested.

Also, with the previous 11 release GPU processing was not working - with this new version rendering has significantly improved.

Steve

I have not tried main concept mp4 yet, but been on it four hours with no crash. Finished 2 SD spots with 6 composited tracks and then played with a 1080p project with bump and displacement maps, throwing track and event fx on randomly and rendered to Sony mp4, wmv, XDCAM, MPEG2, avi. I'm going to open a 30min program tomorrow and see how it does on longer renders but so far, for the work I need it to do, seems very promising.