Glad if this idea works for some of you but I am not sure exactly what is happening with Silverhawk. If Silverhawk would please give a full description of his problem and also tell if he did a clean install etc that may help me work something out. I know its a pain in the arse but lets see what happens. Happy to help but I am pretty busy so it may take time.
I think you misunderstand. I'm all OK now, thanks.
This may help you. You need to delete the entire vegas settings files ---- Press CTRL+SHIFT on your keyboard while double-clicking the program's shortcut icon on the desktop to launch it
This cleans the settings and you should then see the Voukoder - good luck - it worked for me in 2 different machines
Thanks for that! I'd completely forgotten about that option but as my manual method of deleting all VP23 files in my \users\<me>\AppData\local\Vegas Pro folder has cured my problem (and is probably the same as doing the CTRL+SHIFT on startup), I cannot test it. Despite my best efforts, I cannot get VP23 and Voukoder Pro 2026 into a failed state again....which of course is a good thing! 
What I can say is that it doesn't cure the same problem I'm having with VP19 and Voukoder Pro 2026. I haven't managed to get that combination to work at all on my PC.
Kris Ko's simple method above is the way to go for people with the VP23 and Voukoder Pro 2026 not showing as a Render option.
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'Sonic Foundry Audio File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\wavplug\wavplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Windows Media File Format 9 (WMV)' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\wmfplug4\wmfplug4.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Windows Media File Format 9 (WMA)' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\wmfplug4\wmfplug4.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Ogg Vorbis File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\oggplug\oggplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony MXF HDCAM SR' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxfhdcamsrplug\mxfhdcamsrplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Intel HEVC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxhevcplug\mxhevcplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'MAGIX Intermediate File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxhevcplug\mxhevcplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'MAGIX M2TS File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxhevcplug\mxhevcplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'MAGIX MKV File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxhevcplug\mxhevcplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'MAGIX MPEG File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxhevcplug\mxhevcplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached renderer plugin 'MAGIX AVC/AAC Renderer' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxavcaacplug\mxavcaacplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached renderer plugin 'MAGIX HEVC/AAC Renderer' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxavcaacplug\mxavcaacplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'AVC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\so4compoundplug\so4compoundplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'BlackMagic RAW Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\bmrawplug\bmrawplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading reader|renderer plugin 'Sony MXF HDCAM SR' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxfhdcamsrplug\mxfhdcamsrplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading reader plugin 'Windows Imaging Component' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\wicplug\wicplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading reader|renderer plugin 'AVC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\so4compoundplug\so4compoundplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 == Start Hardware Decoders Auto-detection ==
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Total Hardware Decoders detected = 1
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Hardware Decoders detected (in order of preference):
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 0: NVDEC on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 == End Hardware Decoders Auto-detection ==
I have VP19 and VP23 installed on the same machine and have Voukoder Pro 2026 installed to both VP versions.
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 *** Start of FileIO Manager log ***
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'AC-3 Encoder' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\ac3studioplug\ac3studioplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'AIFF File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\aifplug\aifplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'ATRAC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\atracplug\atracplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'AVI2 File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\aviplug\aviplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'VEGAS Compound File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\compoundplug\compoundplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'VEGAS Compound File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\compoundplug\compoundplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'VEGAS Compound File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\compoundplug\compoundplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached renderer plugin 'MainConcept AAC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mcaacplug\mcaacplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony FLAC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\flacplug\flacplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Still File Format (GIF)' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\gifplug\gifplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'MainConcept AVC/AAC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mcmp4plug2\mcmp4plug2.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached renderer plugin 'MainConcept AVC/AAC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mcmp4xavcs\mcmp4xavcs.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'MainConcept MPEG-1 File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mcplug2\mcplug2.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'MainConcept MPEG-2 File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mcplug2\mcplug2.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'MP3 File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mp3plug2\mp3plug2.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached renderer plugin 'Sony AVC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mp4plug3\mp4plug3.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'Sony MVC Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mvcplug\mvcplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'Sony MXF File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxfplug\mxfplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony MXF File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxfplug3\mxfplug3.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Panasonic P2 MXF File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxfp2\mxfp2.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony XAVC File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mxfxavc\mxfxavc.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'Red R3D Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\redplug\redplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Windows Imaging Component' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\wicplug\wicplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Scott Studio File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\sctplug\sctplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'NeXT/Sun File Format Plugin' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\sflgaplg\sflgaplg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sound Designer 1 File Format Plugin' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\sflgaplg\sflgaplg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Intervoice File Format Plugin' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\sflgaplg\sflgaplg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Dialogic VOX ADPCM File Format Plugin' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\sflgaplg\sflgaplg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Perfect Clarity Audio File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\sfpaplug\sfpaplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Stills File Format (JPEG)' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\stl2plg\stl2plg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Stills File Format (DIB)' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\stl2plg\stl2plg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Stills File Format (TARGA)' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\stl2plg\stl2plg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Stills File Format (PNG)' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\stl2plg\stl2plg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Stills File Format (PSD)' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\stl2plg\stl2plg.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader plugin 'Sony DSR-DU1 File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\vduplug\vduplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Wave File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\wavplug\wavplug.dll'
INFO 2026-02-27 18:49:59 Loading cached reader|renderer plugin 'Sony Huge Wave File Format' from path 'C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\wavplug\wavplug.dll'
Maybe you can try to switch your windows region settings to en_US and see if that helps.
It didn't make any difference..but the good news is that it is now working 
. I started looking through Vegas log files in C:\users\<me>\appdata\local\vegas pro\23.0 and the fileio_x64.log looked interesting because there was no entry for voukoder in it but the Help...About...Components always reported the dll as there.
So I went ahead and deleted everything do to with Vegas in appdata\local, started VP23 and now its it that log file! I guess I had some caching related thing going on there --- possibly when I went from a trial version of VP23 with its very limited number of renders to the full version by only entering my VP23 registration key.
I will now go back and see if this was same issue with VP19 and Voukoder Pro 2016....
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I was having this issue at the very beginning with VEGAS Pro 17 or 18 ... it suddenly stopped working. The only way I got this working again was reinstalling windows.. reinstalling VEGAS was not enough.
I was having my code checked by the VEGAS developers last year and they said everything looks good, they didn't see any issues.
So in my opinion it's VEGAS fault. Sometimes changing the region settings also seemed to help. Are you at English (USA)?
UK
I'm getting really confused! Is Voukoder Pro 2026 and Vegas Pro 23 a supported combination? Has anybody got that to work?
Until recently, I was happily using Voukoder Pro 2 and Vegas Pro 19 --- it worked great from the get-go . I then upgraded to Voukoder Pro 2026 and got the dreaded "not showing up as an available option on the Render screen" issue. I tried everything: uninstalling everything, cleaning out the registry, multiple reboots, etc etc but all to no avail. The only option was to go back to version 2.
Now I've upgraded to Vegas Pro 23 and I've got exactly the same problem with Voukoder Pro 2026. But now I'm in a worse situation, because Voukoder Pro 2 and VP23 is not a supported combination.
I've done all the usual tests in VP23: the dll is loaded, the Designer works as expected, I've created and saved a Scene, I've run the Tests in the Designer etc.
Now what do I do? Go back to VP19 and Voukoder 2 or abandon Voukoder and continue with VP23. Neither choice is very good.. 
I've been using Vegas Pro 19 with a previous version of Voukoder Pro for about a year with no problems. But after upgrading, Voukoder no longer shows as an available Render format.
I've upgraded ffmpeg from 7 to 8 after getting a warning from Voukoder but that hasn't cured it.
The dll does show in the About...Component window but should it be "version: 18.0.0."?:
voukoderproplug-vegas19.dll
version: 18.0.0.0
path: C:\Program Files\VEGAS\VEGAS Pro 19.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\voukoderproplug\voukoderproplug-vegas19.dll
Please help!
It's 1st Jan 2025 and I'm ready to purchase a perpetual license.....
Happy New Year everyone. In Pro, if anyone wants an output filename in the format:
original path\original filename-yyyy.mm.dd-hh.mm.ss.original extension
then the following works on Windows 11. Took me ages to get this to work but the secret is to ensure there are no carriage returns etc in the datetime string and no hidden characters before the starting "${" or after the final "}"
${
d = new Date();
p = /^[0-9]$/;
s1 = '-';
s2 = '.';
datetime = d.getFullYear().toString() + s2 + (d.getMonth() + 1).toString().replace(p,'0' + (d.getMonth() + 1).toString()) + s2 + d.getDate().toString().replace(p,'0' + d.getDate().toString()) + s1 + d.getHours().toString().replace(p,'0' + d.getHours().toString()) + s2 + d.getMinutes().toString().replace(p,'0' + d.getMinutes().toString()) + s2 + d.getSeconds().toString().replace(p,'0' + d.getSeconds().toString());
OutputFile.Path + '\\' + OutputFile.Name + s1 + datetime + OutputFile.Extension;
}Thinking about it some more, may be this should be an enhancement request
OutputFile.Timestamp as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
Many Thanks for your help...all seems to be working now. Some questions related to this:
I'd like to create a mask like <original path><original filename (excl extension)-YYYYMMDDHHMMSS<extension>. I'm almost there with the following, and have worked out that I can add a 1 to getMonth() so that function return 1-12 rather than 0 to 11 etc. and I'm sure I'll be able to prepend a 0 to those values that are less than 10. But that is making it quite difficult to do this in you single row field, so I'm resorting to pasting this part of the JS into the field once tested elsewhere:
${OutputFile.Path}\${OutputFile.Name}-${(new Date()).getFullYear()}${((new Date()).getMonth() +1)}${(new Date()).getDate()}${(new Date()).getHours()}${(new Date()).getMinutes()}${(new Date()).getSeconds()}.mp4
produces:
I'm using Voukoder Pro 2.0.0 (beta) with Vega Pro 22 on Win 11 Pro
I've tried to use most of the displayed JavaScript Date functions to construct an output filename but, whenever one is used, Voukoder is unable to start. Is this a bug or a training issue (!)? ${OutputFile.Absolute} etc work fine, it's just these embedded Date() calls.
