Installing VMS 8 AFTER VMS 9

RodC wrote on 5/13/2009, 6:33 PM

I have an image of my HD so its low risk for me to install it, I use it all the time to roll back from stuff I try out, but I would like to know up front if anyone else has installed 8 after 9??

I bought a copy of 8 to get the NewBlue effects, I wonder if its worth the effort to install the whole thing? (I see that the NewBlue has a seperate installer I can download)

I would like to get the Cineform codec as well.

Is there any other items in 8 that are missing from 9?

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/13/2009, 9:16 PM

You can have both installed on your pc at the same time.

Markk655 wrote on 5/14/2009, 8:01 AM

I did something similar. If I recall, you need to have V8 installed initially or the Newblue FX don't work. Installing with the lone NB installer won't work. I uninstalled 9, installed 8 & NewBlue FX, then reinstalled 9. The whole process took less than 15 mins,

RodC wrote on 5/14/2009, 8:08 AM

Thanks Markk, did you loose all your settings for ver 9?

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/14/2009, 8:40 AM

You can download a tool from this website (under free software) to backup your presets.

RodC wrote on 5/14/2009, 10:01 AM

Cool I'll check it out. Does it save the presets for the render templates?

Ivan Lietaert wrote on 5/14/2009, 12:19 PM

It is under 'utilities' actually, and as far as I can tell, it only saves plug-in presets, no render templates. It doesn't seem to work on my system, with VMS8. I hope somenone else jumps in to help you further on this.

RodC wrote on 5/21/2009, 5:32 AM

Just an update, I was able to install 8 after 9, nothing in the 9 settings / folders seem disturbed.

I think the new blue installer would have worked alone, but I didnt get a chance to try it with a new HD image.

Even with 8 installed it seems you can't access the Cineform codec from within the 9 version. (It appears in 8 just fine.) Am I doing something wrong here??

I ended up uninstalling 8 but leaving the newblue effects intact.