Installed V7... no longer mpeg support on V6

mbryant wrote on 10/30/2006, 4:10 AM

Since purchasing Vegas 7 (which is working fine) I've had a need to open up a project in Vegas 6. When I did that, first it asked me for my registration number (strange I thought, as it was registered long ago), then registered online. But now I find the .mpeg and .ac3 encoders are not installed! Tried to register online a second time, that didn't help.

I've sent this to Sony tech support, but also raising it here in case anyone has any ideas or has seen this.

Mark

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/30/2006, 5:31 AM

strange, didn't happen to me.

did you try re-installed V6 to see if something accidently got deleted (you installed them both to seperate folders, right?)

Tech Diver wrote on 10/30/2006, 5:37 AM

Those encoders are activated in Vegas once you install DVD Architect.

mbryant wrote on 10/30/2006, 7:24 AM

I've had V6 and DVDA3 installed since they first came out. I tried running DVDA3, and it too forgot it was registered, so I re-entered by number and registered... still in both V6 and DVDA3 when I look at "help", "about", "components" I see:

MPEG mcplug.dll version: Not loaded
AC3 ac3plug.dll version: Not loaded

I just re-installed both V6 and DVDA3, no change...

Vegas 7 is fine... yes they are installed in different folders (both using the default paths).

Mark

mbryant wrote on 10/30/2006, 7:38 AM

I just manually copied the files from the Vegas 7 directory to the Vegas 6 one, and that fixed it.

Why they were removed in the first place, and why I had to re-register, and why they didn't get automatically re-installed I do not know.

Mark

ScottW wrote on 10/30/2006, 7:43 AM

The AC3 plug in won't get loaded until you pull an AC3 file into DVDA (presumably Vegas as well).

Using file explorer, go to your system drive, Program Files\Sony\Shared Plug-Ins\File Formats

and verify that you have an MCMPEG directory as well as an AC3 directory.

Normally, these plug-ins are shared across versions of Vegas, but it looks like V7/DVDA4 also creates a local directory for the plug ins and references the V7 versions.

The only thing I can think of is that you removed V7/DVDA4, and it cleaned up the shared plug ins.

I'm not sure of the best way to recover, but I'd remove V7/DVDA4, remove V6/DVDA3, re-install V6/DVDA3 then re-install V7/DVDA4.

--Scott

mbryant wrote on 10/30/2006, 8:19 AM

Scott,

Those directories were not there for V6. And I couldn't pull in any .mpeg or .ac3 file - Vegas would tell me it was an invalid format.
I didn't remove V7/DVDA4 (still have them, and they work fine).
My solution was to copy the MCMPEG and AC3 directories from V7 to the V6 Program Files\Sony\Shared Plug-Ins\File Formats directory.
That works!
Mark

ScottW wrote on 10/30/2006, 8:57 AM

Did you perchance recently remove V5? I still would have expected a re-install of V6 to fix this. Anyway, glad to hear you got it working.

mbryant wrote on 10/30/2006, 9:38 AM

Hi Scott,

No.... I didn't remove V5... on this particular PC I never had V5 installed.

As you say, it's solved now.. but very strange.

Mark