hey lightads,

why don't we all download 9b and click install at the same time? sort of like the 'what to do in case of nuclear attack' - sit down, put your head between your knees, and kiss your arse goodbye....

welcome back spot - it's a pity that one of your first actions is to have to act as a conduit for scs.

plodding on with no ctl+z

I'm no where near "back...." and as much as I wish I was....I'm not even halfway.
Best things I can report:
-In the last week I've walked 3 miles in a current pool (water that pushes you around and around in a circle).
-I took my first shower without sitting down yesterday
-The elevated toilet seat got removed today
-I can do very short distances on a cane (dozen feet or so) and can go for a few hours on crutches. Anything longer than that, I still need wheels.
ACL/MCL surgery in about 3 weeks, so another 9 weeks to go before I can consider getting into a wind tunnel, and for my level of skydiving, I'll need half an hour or so in a tunnel before I let go of an aircraft fuselage and land a parachute.
I'll now express tremendous appreciation for Ray Schlogel for covering for me at REDucation, a RED-sponsored training event, and to equally express gratitude to David McKnight for flying here to Utah to help me wrap the Vegas Pro 9 book.
RED and Vegas are huge, BTW....Gads, it is SO MUCH FUN working with RED in Vegas, even though I'm not a huge fan of the RED One. Ray can elaborate more....

Please don't see me as a conduit with Sony. I happen to be working on the Vegas book, which has me in contact with the Vegas team, a few of whom are new people and definitely aren't aware of what we all bring to the Vegas table. But I think they're getting it.
Like I said, the team there really does care a lot about Vegas. The new VP of tech is a really great guy, very responsive, and knows his stuff. Like all of you, I'm hoping for a fast repair to this buffer/undo problem.
BTW....has anyone tried opening more than one instance of Vegas, CTRL+Z in only one, and seen what the media does? I'm on travel, and my MBP won't let me load the 9a build so I can't test it.

Spot --opened two instances of Vegas with same .veg previously saved with Gen Media Titles. In first instance did the copy/paste/UNDO -- all text reverted to preset values. Checked the second instances -- no change -- it has no effect. Each instances seems to live on its own.
-- Hang tight big guy -- I'm first in line for the new book on Vegas 9. - Paul

I just caught a greenscreen bug as well. It seems that when I place a png image on the timeline and add a greenscreen to it, only half the image will be screened out. Very unusual to say the least! Hope this one gets fixed as well.

I had a good chuckle 90.b ok moving along

ROTFLMAO If that is stronger than PROZAC then bring it on…..we are going to need it
sorry last banter ..Vegas Rox …….….and woes

Spot …….the Eagle is sore ….it will take time before the Eagle is soaring
we feel for you …just hang in there…and looking forward to your book I know we are all going to benefit greatly from it

Rory

There's a post from Grazie about masks also doing something VERY strange, could be related.

Bob.

yes Bob its related

if you have a mask in 3d it tends to go wobbly if you have two tracks on the same plane or at certain angles

Just reopened and the project Bez Mask is working . . so far . .

Grazie

Well I feel like I'm editing on eggshells at present.
I'm stuck with my project in 9.0 after rolling back from 9.0a, but I'm still having to put up with a dozen or more lock-ups per day followed by close down using Windows Task Manager ("End Now" never works). If I'm lucky I get 20 minutes work done - and saved - before having to close and re-open.

I still get Red thumbnails and previews at random, usually with Generated Media, but also with stills and video events. Sometimes they disappear when I change the track height, sometimes not.

I've had Pan Crop windows with blank screens instead of showing the footage.

It feels like available memory is slowly draining away till there's not enough to continue, but that's just a guess.

It will be an immense relief when life becomes normal again.

Spot, we all make mistakes, but as you say, it should have been beta'ed.

I'm a developer my self, and I have a few royal screw ups in my baggage, including having a late night call from a customer (a telecom), telling me they were no longer routing international calls. THAT is a big one caused by the most common types of errors, make a change in one section, and not realizing at the time the influence the change have elsewhere, making it a bit harder to test for the error.
Beta testing catches most of these snafus :)

ReneH

In the render, or in the preview window?

I don't know about yoy guys, but I have, a few times, been pulling my hair because the mask/effect wasn't showing, only to realize I had "Split screen view" on in the preview window.

I'm thinking Sony must've hired some out-of-work Microsoft programmers.

Perish the thought, but Vegas is now as dreaded as Vista.

Maybe someone could point the Vegas team to this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unit_testing_frameworks

Only half joking. The term is regression, and from the outside, as it relates to regression, the SCS team isn't looking so hot these days.

Then try reading this thread.

I don't know about yoy guys, but I have, a few times, been pulling my hair because the mask/effect wasn't showing, only to realize I had "Split screen view" on in the preview window.
THANK YOU!!! I was about to go mad trying to figure where my phantom cookie cutter was. Turns out it was this preview setting.

If they really care about Vegas and the people that use it why not leaving the format of the custom render templates as they were and transferable to 9.0 as they did in all prior Vegas versions?

IMO you guys are crying about self inflicted wounds. Everyone knows there are going to be issues in the first few iterations of a new release.

And everyone knows the if it ain't broke dont fix if saying. Im still on 8.0c because I just dont have time to mess around with a new version when the old one mostly meets my needs and is stable. I can't wait to install 9.x, but not until it's a final product.

You guys have way too much free time.

I agree with Farss and blink (and Jeff).

I've always been pretty mercenary about software upgrades. I'll buy if there's a cheap offer.

My wife has a saying about some of the HORRIBLE fashions inflicted on our eyes every day: "Just because they sell it doesn't mean you have to wear it." Amend that to say, "Just becaues you buy it doesn't mean you have to use it."

Buy the upgrade, and then wait for the stable version. If you do this EVERY version, it's just as long a wait as if you jumped in before all the kinks were ironed out.

~A