It was a cold winters night in the Nevada desert. The stars shone bright. Suddenly a bright light appeared in the night sky.....oops sorry wrong script :)
For a few years now I've been happily editing with V9 on WinXP/32. Typically a mix of XDCAM EX and HDV from our HC5. Just lately I've added the Crocolis into the mix. No real problems. V10 has always had issues for me, one being the second monitor would take forever to "lockup" and it was a bear to get Vegas and it to play nice, also somehow V10 kept reverting to thinking it was a 1920x1080 monitor.
Over the last few days my state of bliss hit a major bump. I shot a job a couple of weeks ago using a Z5 instead of my EX1 and V9 just became a mess. As soon as I would add the HDV footage from the Z5, crash. No problem with the HC5 HDV, go figure. Even stranger if I added the HC5 footage to the T/L first, all was OK.
Now I'd almost finished this job and I decided to do a closing piece using just the Z5 footage and again, BAMM. Restarting Vegas and taking the restore unsaved project ption was instant "Vegas has stopped working, would you like it to phone home...". I got so desperate I tried using V10 but the secondary monitor issue was driving me nuts. OK, I edit in Picture At Last but this was silly, something had to be done.
So I threw caution to the wind and updated the drivers for the FX570 card. I tried this once before and it did not go well hence my intrepidation. This time I told the installer to do a clean install. and it was a much later version of the drivers.
Well as hard to believe as it is the problem is now fixed. Even V10 now works happily with the Secondary Display, my "PAL" delay is gone, the PAR stays put, life is good. Well not quite, I'm still wondering how HDV from two different Sony cameras could have sent me down the road to Nirvana, completely baffling.
I would like to thank John Cline for having posted 9,765 times to tell us to update our video drivers and give him the opportunity to say a well deserved "I told you so".
Bob.
For a few years now I've been happily editing with V9 on WinXP/32. Typically a mix of XDCAM EX and HDV from our HC5. Just lately I've added the Crocolis into the mix. No real problems. V10 has always had issues for me, one being the second monitor would take forever to "lockup" and it was a bear to get Vegas and it to play nice, also somehow V10 kept reverting to thinking it was a 1920x1080 monitor.
Over the last few days my state of bliss hit a major bump. I shot a job a couple of weeks ago using a Z5 instead of my EX1 and V9 just became a mess. As soon as I would add the HDV footage from the Z5, crash. No problem with the HC5 HDV, go figure. Even stranger if I added the HC5 footage to the T/L first, all was OK.
Now I'd almost finished this job and I decided to do a closing piece using just the Z5 footage and again, BAMM. Restarting Vegas and taking the restore unsaved project ption was instant "Vegas has stopped working, would you like it to phone home...". I got so desperate I tried using V10 but the secondary monitor issue was driving me nuts. OK, I edit in Picture At Last but this was silly, something had to be done.
So I threw caution to the wind and updated the drivers for the FX570 card. I tried this once before and it did not go well hence my intrepidation. This time I told the installer to do a clean install. and it was a much later version of the drivers.
Well as hard to believe as it is the problem is now fixed. Even V10 now works happily with the Secondary Display, my "PAL" delay is gone, the PAR stays put, life is good. Well not quite, I'm still wondering how HDV from two different Sony cameras could have sent me down the road to Nirvana, completely baffling.
I would like to thank John Cline for having posted 9,765 times to tell us to update our video drivers and give him the opportunity to say a well deserved "I told you so".
Bob.