Cannot changed default render templates

lacole wrote on 1/23/2002, 5:22 AM
When I attempt to either save a new render template, after I click the save icon it just returns to the default template names and my new name does not show up on the template list. If I attempt to change a default configuration, when I run the render it uses the defaults regardless.

Any help would be appreciated on how to enable this functionality.

Thanks

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SonyEPM wrote on 1/23/2002, 8:27 AM
I cannot repro this. Please post your exact steps (including format, changed settings, etc) and we'll try to track this down.
lacole wrote on 1/23/2002, 1:37 PM
It did not matter what I attempted to change. No changes were allowed.

For example, I clicked the custom button, changed the title and clicked the save icon. The new name I entered disappeared and original template name shows up. Dropping the template list did not show my new name. On another attempt, I changed the name of the template and a setting (it did not seem to matter which one), if I click save or go to another tab, the template goes back to the original and my setting
change disappears.

Thanks in advance for your help.
SonyEPM wrote on 1/23/2002, 1:50 PM
What version of Vegas are you running?
lacole wrote on 1/23/2002, 5:22 PM
Vegas Video v3.0 build 76 being run on a Win2000 Pro 1.8 MHz Dell Precision Workstation 330 with 512 MB memory.

Don't know if this is related, but I am also having a problem when I attempt to pull up the track fx from the track list area, non english characters are displayed in the left box. When I attempt to select anything I get an exception error. If I pull up the Event FX... icon within an event or the Assignable FX... icon within the master volumn control error, I get an exception error as follows:

Sonic Foundry Vegas Video 3.0
Version 3.0 (Build 76)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x1D1D1D1D IP:0x509A44
In Module 'vegas30.exe' at Address 0x400000 + 0x109A44
Thread: GUI ID=0x628 Stack=0x12E000-0x130000
Registers:
EAX=1d1d1d1d CS=001b EIP=00509a44 EFLGS=00050206
EBX=008a8a8a SS=0023 ESP=0012e85c EBP=008a8baa
ECX=008a8a8a DS=0023 ESI=01bb0658 FS=0038
EDX=123905c9 ES=0023 EDI=0012e9ac GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00509A44: 8B 00 89 44 24 0C 68 24 ...D: 01 00 00 6A 01 FF 15 14 ...j....
Stack Dump:
0012E85C: 008A8A8A 00400000 + 4A8A8A (vegas30.exe)
0012E860: 008A8A8A 00400000 + 4A8A8A (vegas30.exe)
0012E864: 00508FD0 00400000 + 108FD0 (vegas30.exe)
0012E868: 008A8A8A 00400000 + 4A8A8A (vegas30.exe)
0012E86C: 0012E890 00030000 + FE890
0012E870: 00000000
0012E874: 0012EBF8 00030000 + FEBF8
0012E878: 01BC8C38 01BA0000 + 28C38
0012E87C: 00000000
0012E880: 00000001
0012E884: 008A8A8A 00400000 + 4A8A8A (vegas30.exe)
0012E888: 00000600
0012E88C: 00004000
0012E890: FDB0D300
0012E894: 11D06F82
0012E898: A000BCAE
> 0012E9AC: 00663160 00400000 + 263160 (vegas30.exe)
- - -
0012FFF0: 00000000
0012FFF4: 00000000
0012FFF8: 0060AAC0 00400000 + 20AAC0 (vegas30.exe)
0012FFFC: 00000000

Pulling FXs from the transisition or video fx tabs seems to work ok.

Also don't know if I originally mentioned this but my original install was a download version 3.0 (vegasvideo30_bld76.exe). This also had the same problem. I purchased the box version and installed after uninstalling the download version. Could I have some garbage from the download?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Cole
pelvis wrote on 1/23/2002, 8:09 PM
Strange and uncommon behavior for sure.

Try uninstalling Vegas, update your sound card and video card drivers, then reinstall Vegas, from the download version. Couldn't hurt- sounds like a driver problem.
Cheesehole wrote on 1/24/2002, 5:22 AM
i think it's a configuration error. a clean install should do the trick. uninstall your current version of Vegas and install the newest version you have.
petek800 wrote on 1/24/2002, 10:26 AM
You could check the registery field named "DefLocation" under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sonic Foundry\FileIO\Templates

This is where all SF apps will try to store template data. The registery entry must be present and point to a valid directory. There could be a bug in saving templates when this field points to a directory that has been deleted.
lacole wrote on 1/24/2002, 8:05 PM
Found the problem (or at least worked around it).

Thanks to petek800 for getting me the closest. As a first shot, I checked the registry for the entry petek800 mentioned and did not see it. After uninstalling I checked the registy and noticed that Sonic Foundry still had an entry. After running Nortons registry clean and win doctor, checked again and it was still there. When I attempted to delete the entry (I hate messing with the registry), it blocked me and said I did not have access. Thinking that I must be having some sort of funky permission problem (I don't know that much about the registry), I finally figured out a way to delete it and did a reinstall. Same Problem. Went back to the registry and changed permissions so that I had full privaleges and the problem is no longer a problem!

I did install this app under my logon but I didn't find any documentation that indicated that it should be an administor install (I don't know if this would have made a difference).

By the way, this also fixed the other problem I mentioned where I was unable to bring up the fx dialog from the time line.

Thanks for all of your help. Maybe my discussion will help someone else.

Cole
lacole wrote on 1/25/2002, 7:46 AM
One last note, I now also have a "most recently used" list. I thought it was strange that this feature was not implemented but did not really worry about it. In hindsight, I should have realized all these little problems I was having were all interrelated.

Cole