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Spot|DSE wrote on 7/30/2008, 6:29 AM
Then turn off Net Notify. It shouldn't really be on anyway, unless you're one to normally not pay attention when there is a new version of Vegas.
It's a choice to turn it off.
johnmeyer wrote on 7/30/2008, 9:40 AM
Vegas 8 has popups?
baysidebas wrote on 7/30/2008, 9:50 AM
Relax John, pop-ups, not pop tarts...
bStro wrote on 7/30/2008, 11:17 AM
I love pop-tarts! What flavors do we have?

<re-reads baysidebas' post>

Oh. Darn.

Rob
JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/30/2008, 3:55 PM
> I have 4 other timelines that dont have annoying "pop ups". isnt this why we all quit real player and X10 a few years back.

This has nothing to do with Vegas.

Did you download the free Cartoonr plug-in from NewBlueFX?

I believe this is the culprit. After I installed Cartoonr I started getting these annoying popups. I bet if you uninstall it you'll never see the NewBlueFX adds again.

~jr
Harold Brown wrote on 7/30/2008, 4:41 PM
yep, that Cartoonr plug-in from NewBlueFX has a pop-up and at first I thought I might die when I saw it but then I realized..hey just close it.. whoow that was a close one. It is a nice plug-in for free and I don't mind the trade off.
blink3times wrote on 7/30/2008, 4:43 PM
"I believe this is the culprit. After I installed Cartoonr I started getting these annoying popups."

YUP.
rmack350 wrote on 7/30/2008, 6:05 PM
No pop tarts? Not even in the internal prefs?

:-(

Rob
Jim H wrote on 7/30/2008, 10:02 PM
I only got the pop up once just about 2 weeks ago. I wonder what its schedule is? I suspect I may see it again in the future. I don't mind it so much and I'm guessing deep down in the license it advises of the ad popups..but who reads that crap? Blue should have made it more obvious because they did not do that with the last freebee i got from them.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/31/2008, 4:35 AM
> I only got the pop up once just about 2 weeks ago. I wonder what its schedule is?

In NewBlue's defense, it is not very often at all. I think I've only seen it twice since April when it first came out. That is certainly not a big annoyance but it does shock you at first and here's why I think we react this way:

If it popped up when I used the plug-in I don't think anyone would mind. They would instantly associate the pop-up with the plug-in, remembering that the plug-in was free, and say, "OK, they deserve to do a little advertising for the freebie." The problem is that it pops seemingly out of nowhere like spam or adware or spyware and we have been sensitized to despise this behavior so much by it's abuse that we immediately get mad (at least I did and so did the first poster that created this thread to the point of blaming Sony!).

What is really happening is that Vegas polls all of the FX every time Vegas loads to see of they are still there are working. When it polls Cartoonr it probably thinks someone is using it and fires the advertisement every so often. To the end user it is unexplainable and spam-like, very much like those spyware programs or those pesky pop-unders that you only find after you've closed your browser. Like I said, it's only because we have been so accustom to hate anything that randomly pops up at us that the the original poster had such a strong reaction. I don't think this was NewBlue's intent.

The sad part is that any new technology that makes using a computer easier has been abused to the point of extinction. Something as simple as emailing a ZIP file has now become a ballet of renaming and tricking the system into sending it; only to have to send along instructions on how to undo your trick. Something which should be a "click" is now a "procedure". The abusers have truly won. (excuse me while I get down off my soapbox)

~jr
TGS wrote on 7/31/2008, 10:42 AM
I've been using the CartoonR quite a bit lately, and I've noticed the pop up only occurs if CartoonR is being used in the .veg. If I "un-checked" it, within my chain of FX, the pop up seemed to be disabled too. But if CartoonR, isn't being used at all, I don't get any pop ups.

It also seems to slow my render down quite a bit if I use it in the Video buss. For example, if I have it set up to only kick in for a few seconds in one part of the video, it slows the whole entire render down, even in the sections it's not being used in. So, I discovered that rendering around that area works much faster. IE: I'll render the CartoonR section separately from the rest and stitch the mpegs back together later.

I had a 1hr 7min CartoonR video that took 41 Hrs to render on an AMD Dual core, 4200.
[r]Evolution wrote on 3/1/2009, 2:31 PM
Annoying!
Yep,.. Annoying!

The first time was OK... every other time it has annoyed the crap out of me.

I've got most all the other NewBlue FX & Trannsitions too.
Wish there was a Way, UI, Options to turn OFF the Advertisement(s) once it notices that you already have the FX it is advertising.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/1/2009, 6:30 PM
it annoyed me until I realized that Vegas keeps loading in the background while the popup is up.

Now it don't care.