Auto Preview bug?

tcbetka wrote on 10/30/2008, 10:11 PM
I may have missed this, but is there a known bug with the Auto Preview feature in Vegas 8c?

I normally don't use the feature, but I just started working through the Digital Video and Audio Production text, and when I got to the lesson on using the Start Preview and Auto Preview buttons...neither of them seem to play correctly. When I click on a piece of media, the preview screen gets much smaller, the media pauses for a few seconds (if it starts at all), and usually it's only the audio that plays. I've tested version 8.1 and it seems to work perfectly. So i don't think I'm doing anything wrong here--it isn't like there's some way you can modify function of the buttons anyway...

Maybe I just missed a known bug, and someone will point that out.

Thanks.

TB

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im.away wrote on 10/30/2008, 11:56 PM
The following is copied directly from a previous thread about this issue:

"Read the "readme" file to see the changes made in Vegas 8.0c.

You can open the trimmer window and click on the third button from the right. Then it will preview the way it used to instead of previewing in the trimmer."

I'm not in front of a PC with Vegas on it right at the moment, but if I recall, the button says something about previewing on an external monitor.
tcbetka wrote on 10/31/2008, 7:42 AM
No...this isn't the Trimmer issue. I already got burned on that one. This is simply about using the Explorer and then trying to use the Preview or the Auto Preview buttons. It works perfectly for me in version 8.1, but not in version 8c on my 64-bit Vista drive.

TB
kairosmatt wrote on 10/31/2008, 8:03 AM
Funny, I was just about to post about this.

I am having the same issue, with 8c on XP.

Any thoughts?

kairosmatt
tcbetka wrote on 10/31/2008, 8:22 AM
Yup...same problem on XP with 8c on my older laptop at work. There's an issue alright, but I cannot believe it's an unknown one. Let me do an archive search in the forum; someone has to have reported this before now.

TB

EDIT: Ah...sorry im.away, you were right. This IS the Trimmer show video monitor issue. You have to deselect that button in the Trimmer in order for the preview to work correctly. Hmmmm....I thought I had done that at home, and it didn't make a difference. And I wonder if it's different on version 8.1?

I'll check this out at home and see if I didn't goof up there as well, and then report back later today.
jetdv wrote on 10/31/2008, 9:09 AM
Yes, it *IS* different on 8.1 as it doesn't have the trimmer updates added in 8.0c.
tcbetka wrote on 10/31/2008, 9:11 AM
There you go. And here I thought it was just me going nuts...

Thanks!

TB
kairosmatt wrote on 10/31/2008, 10:52 AM
Thanks!
MUTTLEY wrote on 10/31/2008, 11:21 AM

Just chiming in that I get the same problem with the trimmer preview and have gone back to the old way. Often when video is previewed in the trimmer the the main video preview window gets smaller and will stay that way throughout the session unless I close and reopen Vegas. I'm on Vista 64

- Ray
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www.undergroundplanet.com
tcbetka wrote on 10/31/2008, 2:36 PM
You're on Vista 64, but which version of Vegas are you running? Both versions 8c and 8.1 work on a 64-bit OS, but the Preview and Auto Preview functions operate differently in each version. It's not so much that the functions are different, but there is no "show video monitor" button in the trimmer of version 8.1, so obviously it works differently in 8c.

So if you are on 8c, then download and install version 8.1, if you haven't already. I bet it'll work just fine for you there.

TB
MUTTLEY wrote on 10/31/2008, 3:25 PM
Sadly I'm using 8c, would love love LOVE to be using 8.1 but the lack of plugin support at this point are preventing me from using it.

- Ray
Some of my stuff on Vimeo
www.undergroundplanet.com
tcbetka wrote on 10/31/2008, 4:37 PM
Which plug-ins do you need that 8.1 doesn't support? I haven't used anything other than what ships with Vegas yet, so keep that in mind.

TB
winrockpost wrote on 10/31/2008, 4:54 PM
Yet again some things work for one user, but not other users... this feature seem fine on my system,,, I wonder if Sony tests this stuff on just the one guy in the corner cubicles computer