DebugMode Frameserver in V9.0e-64bit--It works!

wwaag wrote on 5/22/2010, 7:31 PM
Found this new comment on the Videohelp website today regarding DMF.

"This is an absolute must have tool in my opinion.........

It can be a little tricky getting it to work with Vegas 9.x 64-bit running on a 64-bit win OS. Ive got it working excellent on XPx64, Vista-64 and Win7-64 with Vegas Pro 9.0e. The trick is to not install the plugin into the default folder. You need to install it in the Vegas9 program folder root. That's typically "C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 9.0". You must use version 2.7 frameserver."

I tried it and it works for me (Win7 Pro-64). I've tried a few renders, re-booted, tried a few more and it seems to work great. Again, the key seems to be "to install it in the Vegas9 program folder root". I've been using 8c up until now because of a need for the frameserver--this is really great.

Hopefully, it will continue to work OK.

wwaag

AKA the HappyOtter at https://tools4vegas.com/. System 1: Intel i7-8700k with HD 630 graphics plus an Nvidia RTX4070 graphics card. System 2: Intel i7-3770k with HD 4000 graphics plus an AMD RX550 graphics card. System 3: Laptop. Dell Inspiron Plus 16. Intel i7-11800H, Intel Graphics. Current cameras include Panasonic FZ2500, GoPro Hero11 and Hero8 Black plus a myriad of smartPhone, pocket cameras, video cameras and film cameras going back to the original Nikon S.

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Sebaz wrote on 5/22/2010, 7:37 PM
Are you sure that you got it working in 64 bit Vegas? Or in 32 bit Vegas in Windows 7 64 bit? Because as far as I know DFS is a 32 bit only plugin. It would be great to have it working in 64 bit Vegas, though.
wwaag wrote on 5/22/2010, 7:46 PM
Definitely it's the 64 bit Vegas that I'm using on Win7 Pro-64.

wwaag

AKA the HappyOtter at https://tools4vegas.com/. System 1: Intel i7-8700k with HD 630 graphics plus an Nvidia RTX4070 graphics card. System 2: Intel i7-3770k with HD 4000 graphics plus an AMD RX550 graphics card. System 3: Laptop. Dell Inspiron Plus 16. Intel i7-11800H, Intel Graphics. Current cameras include Panasonic FZ2500, GoPro Hero11 and Hero8 Black plus a myriad of smartPhone, pocket cameras, video cameras and film cameras going back to the original Nikon S.

Sebaz wrote on 5/22/2010, 9:20 PM
I tried it and strangely enough, it does work in 64 bit Vegas, but it's just as unstable as in 32 bit Vegas. It crashes Vegas often, and the best chance to make it work is to reboot, and it will seem to work, but I just sent a one minute loop to MeGUI to encode to x264 and on the first pass the DFS dialog shows a (Not Responding) and MeGUi is not hung but it's not encoding anything either. Earlier I had sent the same loop to Virtual Dub and it hung after playing some frames.

DFS is a great project that I wish it would work reliably because it would save me from having to export to a lossless or close to lossless intermediate file to feed into MeGUI, but as of now it's not working.
john-beale wrote on 5/23/2010, 12:12 PM
> ...it's just as unstable as in 32 bit Vegas...

FWIW, the frameserver has been stable for me, and I use it frequently to serve MeGui for generating MPEG4. I think more than 50 projects so far. I'm running WinXP 32bit and Vegas 9d. Source material is 1080i AVCHD and recently 1080p60 m2ts files.
Sebaz wrote on 5/23/2010, 10:07 PM
It's probably stable for you because of XP. It seems to me that it's not well programmed for either Vista or 7.
wwaag wrote on 5/24/2010, 8:19 AM
Although I don't routinely use Megui, I did try rendering a project from Vegas using DMF--worked just fine. One note--before installing DMF that's now working successfully, I uninstalled the previous installation using Revo Uninstaller, which also removed the associated registry items. Might be worth a try.

wwaag

AKA the HappyOtter at https://tools4vegas.com/. System 1: Intel i7-8700k with HD 630 graphics plus an Nvidia RTX4070 graphics card. System 2: Intel i7-3770k with HD 4000 graphics plus an AMD RX550 graphics card. System 3: Laptop. Dell Inspiron Plus 16. Intel i7-11800H, Intel Graphics. Current cameras include Panasonic FZ2500, GoPro Hero11 and Hero8 Black plus a myriad of smartPhone, pocket cameras, video cameras and film cameras going back to the original Nikon S.