Official now. Serious bug in 9.0a. Take care.

xberk wrote on 7/28/2009, 3:32 PM

Official response below from SCS in response to my report on all text elements reverting to orig preset values during undo operation as discussed here. Take care with text elements. Save your work frequently in 9.0a !!

Serious Bug in 9.0a

Our development team has identified this functionality as a bug in the Vegas Pro 9.0a software. We anticiapte a fix in an upcoming build of the Vegas Pro 9.0 software. I do not have any release details at this time. You can use Net Notify to stay up to date on product releases. Go to Options > Preferences and check the box that says "Use Net Notify to stay informed about Sony Media Software products". The software will inform you when an update is available.

In the meantime, you may consider rendering out your Text media to it's own video file to avoid the loss of your text elements. Thank you for providing your information.

Comments

ken c wrote on 7/28/2009, 4:03 PM

thx, good to know.. I use ctrl-s constantly, in all apps, have for years... what would be helpful is an auto-increment feature, eg ctrl-shift-s or some such, that would add a .001 .002 .003 etc type append to the name before the veg, eg

myproject27july001.veg
myproject27july002.veg
myproject27july003.veg
or auto-increment every 60 seconds to save new etc..

John_Cline wrote on 7/28/2009, 8:17 PM

Ed Troxel has a free Autosave command script for Vegas v8 that worked really well. I don't know if it works in Vegas v9.

http://www.jetdv.com/vegas/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2661

gwailo wrote on 7/28/2009, 9:21 PM

If you have version 7 or 8. Do not upgrade to Sony Vista! (sorry i mean Vegas pro 9)

After nearly losing 8 hours of translation work in subtitles along with waiting 2 months for all the other bugs that weren't fixed 9.0a has made me want to troll all the sycophants.

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Steve Rhoden

You have listened....And you have responded accordingly to your Customers.
The Updated Vegas 9.0a is almost Perfect....Never, have i seen such
a loooong list of necessary and worthy fixes in an update....You have done
an excellent job.

THANK YOU!!

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Wadro65

I had my doubts as to where Sony was heading... even if it does not fix all the problems.... Sony is starting to rock.. Please keep it up and kill FCP...

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A. Grandt

From what I've seen and tried so far, this update is massive and makes 9.0 a much much better application.

Very well done SCS :)

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Feature request for Vegas pro 10

- something that works as well as version 8

Thanks

A very pissed off and disappointed customer

A. Grandt wrote on 7/29/2009, 4:39 AM

Come on, sycophants???

If you look back, most if not all of those names you outed (myself included) have been very hard on SCS for 9.0, and to our defence 9.0a fixed a LOT of very nasty bugs, and the list of fixes is impressive. SCS DID a good job on 9.0a.

Of course it sucks when new bugs are introduced, especially when they turn out to be as severe as the one you were hit by.

So cool it, and keep things civil!

A. Grandt wrote on 7/29/2009, 4:49 AM

John_Cline wrote:

What Vegas needs is a kind of concurrency system that at least works as a separate process in case Vegas itself crashes.
This could enable users to roll back changes or rebuild a good .veg file that at least contains all but the last few minutes of work, if the snapshot rate is frequent enough for that.

John_Cline wrote on 7/29/2009, 4:57 AM

That's exactly what Ed's Autosave command script does. Stop wishing and go download it.

blink3times wrote on 7/29/2009, 5:02 AM

I have Edward's autosave command and I bow to the great Edward Troxel. Wonderful little script that has saved me from disaster quite a few times.

InterceptPoint wrote on 7/29/2009, 6:15 AM

Much thanks for the heads up on this one. I'm just going to skip the 9.0a install and wait for 9.0b and then wait a little longer until you guys wring that one out. What an asset this forum is to Vegas Users. Couldn't live without it.

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 7/29/2009, 6:16 AM

"made me want to troll all the sycophants"

Yeah, so you are very pissed off Mr. gwailo....Your pointing fingers in the wrong
direction....Make your complaints be known by using SCS help tickets.

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 7/29/2009, 6:22 AM

InterceptPoint......Just listening to hear from various users and their issues
is not always the way to go....install and do your own wringing.

A. Grandt wrote on 7/29/2009, 6:25 AM

As a software developer, the nightmare scenario is that everyone decides to skip a release and see what everybody else is doing.

daryl wrote on 7/29/2009, 6:27 AM

It seems that with every new version release, the previous version was better. Some things never change. I forecast when version 10 comes out, there will be a lot of folks saying how much better 9 is, so don't upgrade.
If something doesn't work just right, turn in a ticket and find a work-around until it is fixed.
Can anyone name an app that is 100% bullet-proof on every computer configuration in the world?

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 7/29/2009, 6:35 AM

Ditto daryl, Ditto.

InterceptPoint wrote on 7/29/2009, 6:43 AM

I understand that someone has to take the risk of a new release. I did so with 9.0. Jumped right in and had at it. No hesitation whatsoever. Under normal circumstances I would have done the same with 9.0a. But I was all tied up learning Javascript and programming a Photoshop app for my daughter. So I was a little late coming to the 9.0a party. But this bug is a killer for me. There is NO WAY that I could live with it so there is NO WAY that I can install 9.0a. Just not going to happen.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 7/29/2009, 7:03 AM

John, that link appears to be a dead end.

rs170a wrote on 7/29/2009, 7:29 AM

Jay, just download the trial version of Excalibur.
Auto Save and Project Inspector will continue to work once Excalibur expires.
BTW, since both these apps are free, Edward recommends doing it this way to make sure you have the current version of each one.
And yes, it works in V9 Pro.

Mike

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 7/29/2009, 7:42 AM

Jay...Just seems as though the site is temporarily down at the moment.
or having some probs.

Jay Gladwell wrote on 7/29/2009, 8:46 AM

Mike and Steve, thanks!

rs170a wrote on 7/29/2009, 12:47 PM

Jay (and anyone else who's interested) Edward's site is now back online so go grab the Excalibur demo.

Mike

jetdv wrote on 7/30/2009, 7:20 AM

Apparently my webhost made some changes. It appears the DNS settings for "jetdv.com" got screwed up for a couple of days. Fortunately, it came back online yesterday afternoon (my time).

Yes, autosave does work in Vegas Pro 9. The current version installs with the current version of Excalibur. If you don't want to use Excalibur, that's fine. Autosave will continue to work as well as Project Inspector even after Excalibur expires.