Backing up Templates and Presets?

Grazie wrote on 6/26/2004, 12:16 AM
Before I reformat C:, how do I "preserve" backup my Templates and Presets when I do this for a reinstall of Vegas? Or any other Sony product?

Grazie

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stormstereo wrote on 6/26/2004, 2:54 AM
I suggested a long time ago that Sony implemented a sort of export function that would save all your preferences, templates, settings, self made transitions/effects, scripts et cetera to a file. That way you could import those settings whenever you reinstall or need to work on someone elses machine.

Sony gave us the "save layout" function which is nice but it's not all the way. BTW, can you save the layouts to a file? I think AVID can.

To answer your question: I don't know. And I think you've already figured that out by reading my blabbering up there... :) I want to see an answer though.

Best/Tommy
Grazie wrote on 6/26/2004, 3:52 AM
Thanks Tommy .. hmm .. :-(
SonyTSW wrote on 6/26/2004, 9:59 AM
There are instructions for backing up your templates in Vegas 5 as well (it's a little simpler than for Vegas 4 and earlier).

Preserving custom render templates after new install of Windows and Vegas 4


Edit: Download the Preset Manager from here to back up your presets and restore them later.

Download Preset Manager

Grazie wrote on 6/26/2004, 10:05 AM
Briliant! Even I can do that! . . AND I don't have too mess with the registry .. . this IS good news ..

Grazie
PeterWright wrote on 6/26/2004, 5:56 PM
Excellent!

- good question Grazie ... and thanks for the answer, TSW.
Grazie wrote on 6/26/2004, 9:46 PM
. . I DO try!. . I AM very trying . .. ;-)

But yes Peter . . I've often wanted an easy way of doing this . . thanks TSW and really excelllent V5a has it now.

Grazie
Grazie wrote on 6/26/2004, 9:50 PM
TSW? . . I just saw your "edited" link to the Preset Manager - BRILLIANT! . .Downloading now . . 8-)

Grazie
PeterWright wrote on 6/28/2004, 1:05 AM
Hi SonyTSW,

Grazie and I, and possibly others, are having trouble getting Preset Manager to find all our previously created presets - we probably haven't worked out how to "point" it to the relevant folders for Vegas, Sound Forge or Acid. I assume it should find ALL presets, including Render as settings.

Could you give us a nudge to get us started?

Thanks

Peter
Grazie wrote on 6/28/2004, 1:18 AM
{ .. . (Pete, thanks for the Support - Grazie ;-) }
tapeless wrote on 6/28/2004, 4:28 AM
Grazie, I just reformatted myself, and I did find the presets that I had created, saved them to disk, then copied them back into the same folder once I re-installed Vegas....BUT...Vegas still does not see them. I am having to re-create all my presets. I had several text presets I had created that I wanted to save, but they just aren't recognized after re-installation.
tapeless wrote on 6/28/2004, 4:33 AM
I was just at this point a few days ago...trying to back up my presets, even posted questions about it here and on COW. Preset Manager will only back up audio presets as far as I could tell. It would not back up my media generated (text) presets in Vegas 4.0e. Don't know if 5.0 is capable of it or not...but 4.0 wasn't.
Grazie wrote on 6/28/2004, 5:47 AM
Hiyah! - It would appear that the Vegas PM is talking about is the audio parts . . I stress "it would appear" . . I can't confirm or deny this until a Sony tech comes back to us.

Peter Wright was able to PM a FX .. and you are able to collect Presets from Vegas . . .. you can't get them back though .. . .

We have a range of experiences to pick from . . .

Grazie
Grazie wrote on 6/28/2004, 10:52 AM
. .any further takers on this one?