Import VF Presets to Movie Studio

jchrisb wrote on 12/12/2003, 8:33 AM
I have just upgraded to the new Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0 from VF 2.0c. I would like to import all of my presets from VF. I found a reference in the knowledge base for doing this but it refers to Vegas 3.0 and does not apply. Can anyone provide info on how to do this to prevent having to recreate the presets? Thanks!

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ChristerTX wrote on 12/12/2003, 11:50 AM
What I understand, MS and VF will live as two separate programs on your PC. That means that the presets could be moved from one place to the other (I think).
But I don't know where these presets are stored.

/ Christer
kirsol wrote on 12/13/2003, 1:38 AM
I just did some playing around, and I believe I've discovered a nifty trick for sharing presets created in VF2 with SB 3.

Try this quick experiment (which assumes you have MS 3 and VF 2 installed). Launch VF 2 and call up a preset somewhere. Then save it again, answering yes when asked if you want to replace the old one. Then launch MS3. Is the preset now visible in MS3 too? It was for me!

TECHNICAL ASIDE: The trick appears to work because as far as I can tell, the two programs share a common registry entry (HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-583907252-838170752-682003330-500\Software\DXTransform\Presets) for saving presets, the value of which happens to be defined by whichever program was installed most recently on any given machine (most likely MS 3). I'm a programmer, so those kinds of things interest me. :)

On a separate note - I also discovered that MS 3 has another very cool feature, in addition to chroma key, additional video track, MPEG-2 support, etc. It also lets you open multiple instances of the program! So you could be editing one project in one session of MS 3 while rendering a long project in another session. A very cool Vegasesque feature!

MitchK
IanG wrote on 12/13/2003, 10:36 AM
>On a separate note - I also discovered that MS 3 has another very cool feature, in addition to chroma key, additional video track, MPEG-2 support, etc. It also lets you open multiple instances of the program! So you could be editing one project in one session of MS 3 while rendering a long project in another session.

Not only that, but you can cut and paste between instances.

Ian G.
rdavis01 wrote on 12/15/2003, 11:56 AM
I tried to cut and paste a text event between instances of Movie Studio this weekend. The event that was pasted contained just the text event template and now my actual text event. I still had to edit the text, the colors, the placement, the font, etc.

Does anybody know if this can be done?