Giving up on Vegas Video!

firefighter wrote on 1/31/2003, 9:12 PM

Well I've had it. I cannot get this program to work. Actually the problem doesn't seem to be the program as much as someting in the computer. I cannot print to tape without sporadic blue screens appearing on the tape. I have bought new IEEE cards, changed IRQs, moved cards, stopped all other programs, reinstalled the program, updated drivers ad infinitum. I have had friendly help from SoFo but all to no avail. I have also tried Ulead VideoStudio and Videowave. I have the same problem with all of them. So its not Vegas' fault. Just this damn Dell. I have access to a Casablanca Kron with all the extras so I will probably use that. If I come back to PC editing I will probably gwet a preconfigured set up. Bye now.

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Grazie wrote on 2/3/2003, 3:55 AM

Deef- Thank you!

"We will add the info from this thread related to:
-BIOS upgrading
-DELL issue with USB scanner/printer fingering and fan control"

I also provide this link in my year long INternet quest into "curing" this "symptom". It speaks of Dell BIOS upgrading and the experience of one of the Inspiron users attempting to use it for NLE work:

http://www.dvdoctor.net/cgi-bin/ubb/Forum10/HTML/003926.html

Presently, I have been able to ascertain the only "fix" for sustaining the fan/s operation, this is FanGui, which is a freeware package which in turn comes with the very serious caveat that, - PEOPLE USE IT AT THEIR OWN RISK! It is not supported by Dell.

That being said, Deef, and in my continual search for a result, I would like the following:

1) - Feedback from any of your Inspiron users [ Inspiron models I8000, I8100 or I8200 ] who have had "successful" PTT WITHOUT the necessity of using Fangui. Do you keep such information? Or has SoFo had experience/s of installing and using VV on an Inspiron?

2) - What type and model of Dell pc that firefighter is using?

3) - If ff [ if using a Dell laptop ] had he established that prior to the BIOS upgrade he was getting "blue-screening" when the fan/s turned on/off?

Okay, until I see these questions addressed and replied to I can not make any further comments on this subject.

Be that as it may, if I should choose to buy a replacement laptop it will mostly likely still be a Dell Inspiron. It still remians for me a dream machine! Now THAT's Customer loyalty! Likewise for my preferred NLE - VEGAS RULES!

Deef, my very best regards to you and to SoFo tech, and please, please do read the weblink I provided. Upgrading the BIOS might suit all people all of the time - yes?

Grazie

TomG wrote on 2/3/2003, 8:43 PM

Hopefully this is the last word on this thread. But this was really GOOD stuff. I was having the same problem and this thread saved me a lot of time and anguish. Perhaps the most important aspect to successfully solving the PTT problem was:

1. Updating my BIOS (on a Dell Dimension 8100)
2. Turning on the DMA on my drives (it was off and I didn't even know it!!)
3. Shutting down ALL apps and dedicating the machine to PTT.

Thanks again, everyone.

TomG