Kona with Vegas 12

Joemedia wrote on 5/12/2013, 6:25 PM
We've been using vegas for years and have come to rely heavily on it in our studio. Ever since Vegas 12 came out, Vegas 11 on our workstations has become vey unstable. We just did a full clean install of our OS (win 7) and vegas 11 still crashes when we even remotely stress the software. Vegas 12 on the other hand is quite stable but it will not work with our AJA Kona Lhi card. I called sony tech support and they said they are aware of the problem and the only work around is using a dll from vegas 11 but you loose audio with this fix. We primarily produce for broadcast and desperately need external monitoring to do our color work. Does anyone have any idea how long we'll have to wait to get this fixed? Do the Blackmagic decklink cards work with 12? I know Sony states the BMD cards do work but they also state that for the AJA cards. We're ready to move to BMD if they work. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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Tom Pauncz wrote on 5/12/2013, 6:57 PM
I use a BMD Decklink Studio 2 card it works fine with both VP11 and VP12.
BMD driver (Desktop Video) 9.7.1
Tom
larry-peter wrote on 5/12/2013, 8:21 PM
I'm having the same issue with the Kona Lhi. I'm currently using the Vegas 11 .dll for video monitoring, and monitoring audio from the computer's on-board digital output. I'm not happy about the issue either, since one of the reasons I upgraded was because of SCS's claim that we could finally monitor audio from AJA cards.

Also, what version AJA driver are you using? Vegas 12 says it needs the version 10.1 driver, but Vegas 11 was much happier on my system with the older driver - 4.2.1 it was, I believe. You may get better performance in V11 by going to an earlier AJA driver.
Joemedia wrote on 5/13/2013, 9:39 AM
Thanks. I moved back to 10.1 and it still is unstable. You're using 4.2.1? I'll have to look at my old driver discs or call AJA to get them. The AJA site only goes back to later versions of 10.
Joemedia wrote on 5/13/2013, 9:40 AM
Thanks for your verification Tom. I'm going to try one more thing and if that doesn't work, I'll buy the BMD cards for our systems. I really didn't want to have to do this but it just doesn't work like this.
Thanks again
larry-peter wrote on 5/13/2013, 12:18 PM
4.2.1 is what I used in VP 11 until I installed VP 12 last month. Went back to that version when audio wouldn't work in 12. They are still available on the AJA support site, if you want to give them a try. It's either under "archived" or "legacy" drivers. Can't remember the exact menu label.

And the driver's not as old as you may think. After 5.0 AJA repacked Machina and codecs all with the drivers and apparently skipped ahead to numbering as version 10.

Edit: I'll be watching to see how things progress with SCS/AJA. I may want to move to BMD too, but had bad experiences in the past with Decklink and older versions of Vegas.
Joemedia wrote on 5/13/2013, 3:13 PM
Us too. We had a couple of DeckLink Extremes that were down right horrible. I just put an order in for a DeckLink Studio card to try. If that doesn't work we're going to have to look at another NLE. We tried Premiere CS6 and it didn't sit well with some of our editors. We also had a couple of Avid seats a couple of years back but I hate the thought of having to re-learn Media Composer...Keeping my fingers crossed Sony will step up and clean the bugs out of Vegas. Love it when it works.
R0cky wrote on 5/15/2013, 1:30 PM
Some people do have issues with the BM intensity card. I and at least one other person have issues with the BM intensity shuttle. As in it isn't recognized at all by vegas.

My work around is to use an older dll just as Sony told you. I don't use the audio so that's not an issue for me.

rocky