Who has bought Vegas Pro 12

Just wondering who has bought VP12. I was testing the beta and Sony emailed that testing would end in October... but here we are with it released already. Seems like the testers and market people at Sony don't talk to each other.

Windows 7 Pro64, 16GB RAM, SSD boot drive, GTX 570 Graphics, Vegas Pro 11 and VP10 just in case

I bought the upgrade, since I had some small projects created with the beta version that I still wanted to work on.

I'm using it every day and it seems very stable. I did find one bug with rendering a DVD menu that had motion that I animated with Pan/Crop and the motion was not smooth when I rendered to MP4 so I had to go back to Vegas Pro 11.0 to do the render but other than that it seems to work pretty well. I wouldn't delete Vegas Pro 11.0 just yet though. There are bound to be some "gotcha's" like the one I found but overall I really like Vegas Pro 12.0.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

I'm still waiting for Sony to send my registration code. What's up with that? Now they have bugs in the ordering process!

The vast majority of us get our key in an email minutes after buying the download version of Vegas 12. You didn't, so there is a bug on Sony's end?

Call CUSTOMER SERVICE with your order number and hey will fix it for you. Do not try tech support - license issues isn't their problem.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

Still running the trial and I can make V12 crash in a matter of seconds, very unstable.

So I decided to turn GPU OFF and to my surprise, V12 is much more stable, runs slower on previews, but it doesn't crash. NBTP 2 also worked well so far and V12 has not crashed even when I had 4 instances of V12 running side by side with some fx intensive sessions. And no glitches in the preview.

I prefer stability over GPU acceleration and if this proves to be right, either my graphic card is not suited for V12 or V12 just isn't ready for stable GPU.

It still needs further testing GPU OFF but I just couldn't go this far with GPU ON on V12 and not having it crash. And this time, GPU seems to be the cause while with V11, I could never move on because the color curves fx settings would not show up, GPU ON or OFF. This has been fixed in V11 701 and in V12, so this issue might not have been related to GPU while I was thinking maybe my computer might of been the problem.
I did purchase V11 but never used it but if V12 proves to be stable GPU OFF, I will most likely purchase it.

I have an ASUS NVIDIA GTS 450 with driver: 306.23-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql.exe on an i7 2600, 16 gb ram.

Could any of you please list your graphic card you are using with V12? Gathering this info might help me in fixing my problem with V12 GPU ON.

Thanks

Thanks John, but I am specifically looking for graphic cards that work well under V12 just like your Quadro 4000.

My GTS450 is ok in V11 but in V12 it just makes Vegas crash within seconds to several minutes, so there are changes under the hood in V12.

My Nvidia GTX 570 with 306.23 drivers seems to perform well most of the time. I have had a couple occasions where the Video preview window just displays solid red. If I terminate and go back in, it is fine. I suspect it is more with the Nvidia drivers, but still very usable and I am able to do my hobby based projects well, but I am not stressing it too much. I like the BCC 8 filter handles in the preview window, but sometimes the handles are not exactly in the corners (beat reactor is an example). I saw this in SVP 11 too. But overall the OFX plugins seem to be more stable in SVP 12.

Thanks. I was probably working with Media Manager and had it open for a while. I saw a post by Stephen Mann about checking GDI objects in task manager and was surprised to see my Vegas120.exe having over 4,700 GDI objects and a few thousand handles open too. Now that I try to keep an eye on it, the GDI objects are usually under 1,000. It might have been when I was looking at the Boris BCC 8.1 3D Lens Flare after watching that Webinar on the Hulk Animation the other day. There are a lot of controls in those OFX dialogs and that may have caused it to be high. Have you ever needed to bump up the limit of 10,000 GDI objects per process limit that Windows 7 has in the registry?

Just hit the 10,000 GDI limit with SVP 12 and Windows 7. Just changed the limit to 20,000 to see if that helps. I was working on a slide show with 250 source jpgs in the Project Media tab. I had already removed a bunch of them from the project and was selecting all of the remaining ones to see if I could get a count of them.

Link that explains how to change the default. It used to be 16K in Windows 2000.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724291%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I did increase it to 20,000. I am working on a project and rather than letting it go above 10,000 (watching it in the processes tab of Task Manager) I saved the project and restarted Vegas to get that value back down. For example, before I started a render, I restarted. May not have been necessary, but I had a deadline and figured it was quicker to restart Vegas than to waste time if the render failed half way through.

Interesting, I was having Vegas12 crashing at 50% of my project (when viewing and/or rendering), and by disabling the GPU Acceleration I was able to render in HiDef (720).

I'm running Windows8 64, 8Gb RAM, with a (brand-new) Nvidia Geforce GT 520, (1Gb memory).

Jason, what graphic driver version are you using?

Steve, I wasn't able to replicate your generated text problem, works fine on my side.

That is why I'm sure it's the PC, and not a bug.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

Steve, I have the same problem with Vegas 12. I thought it might be a newblue issue since I was using that third party software plug in. Hope they can fix this! But it does seem to be working with the accelerated GPU. In 11, I experienced all sorts of problems and eventually disabled the GPU acceleration. With the latest build of 11, it appears to work, but in the preview window I get weird changes in the pictures. They appear overexposed and then go back to normal. The funny thing is that when I use a separate monitor to view, that monitor shows a normal picture, but the program preview window continues to do its thing. With 12 I have not experienced this problem!

I kept going to the NewBlue web site but they don't list a version 2. Is it a special early release for Sony customers. I was going to upgrade, but held back because I could not think of a good reason why NewBlue would not announce it on their site. I'm glad to hear it is working better for you.

Confirming. I've bought V12 and it crash all the time when using GPU, when tuning CUDA support OFF everything works FINE. I can say, that on the same NVIDIA drivers 306.23 [on Windows 7x64 with all updates] under CS6 [Premier / AfterEffects] GPU/CUDA rendering works FINE so I'm sure that the problem is in some code-lines from SONY not from NVIDIA. SONY PLEASE make some UPDATE on that. I,ve got i7 XEON 4,2 GHz on CORE [x4] multitasking OFF - and any way I can feel the difference with and without CUDA when rendering ;/ Under Vegas 11 on the same drivers everything worked fine. GOD, HAVE MERCY FOR VIDEO EDITORS :)

I agree with Nigel, report it to Sony so that they can work with you to fix it; especially if this works for you with Vegas pro 11.0 and not with 12.0.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

Mateusz, with NVIDIA drivers 306.23, I was getting so many crashes making V12 unusable. I reverted to driver 296.10 and V12 is much more stable, only occasionnal crashes with GPU ON, and with GPU OFF, it is very stable.

I figure they still have problems with GPU.
If I open 2 instances of V12 side by side, it will crash with GPU ON, but with GPU OFF, I can open 4 instances of V12 and it is rock solid.

Also had some V10 projects with many tracks and fx intensive along with some compositing and V12 couldn't play them and would crash with GPU ON, but it did work fine and render fine with GPU OFF.

On my part, I can live with no GPU acceleration but just can't live without Vegas. Overall, this is a much better start for a first release of V12 compared to V11.

Nice improvements with driver 306.97 along with GPU ON, thanks for pointing it out.

I can open two instances of V12, but if the V12 sessions are to fx intensive, the second instance of V12 will crash. Still, this is a great step forward.