Saving presets

VU-1 wrote on 11/10/2001, 12:45 PM
Remember the old days when we used to be able to save our own carefully crafted Plug-in presets to the hard-drive of our choice or a floppy disc using the Preset Manager in Sound Forge (4.5)?
As far as I can tell, in both Vegas and Acid, when you save a plug-in preset, it is automatically saved on the boot drive into a folder within the main program folder (it doesn't give you a choice). If you go thru Win Explorer, you can then hunt thru the files to find the preset you are looking for (named differently than you did) and copy it to the drive of your choice - what a pain in the neck!
If you will notice, the presets that you save within Vegas and Acid have the same file extension but the ones you save from within Sound Forge (4.5 anyway) have a different file extension. Therefore, you cannot open a preset created in Veg. or Acid from within SF and vice versa. Why?
Does anybody know of a way around this? or why Sonic Foundry has chosen to make this a problem for us? I don't know about you, but I regularly save my presets to a floppy as a backup for the project so I can recall my settings when needed.

Jeff Lowes
On-Track Recording

Comments

CDM wrote on 11/10/2001, 2:04 PM
I agree. SF needs to do something about their presets scheme. I would also love to see folders into which you could save presets (i.e. by client, project title, etc.). Drag and drop presets and packages would make life so much easier.

cdm
Cheesehole wrote on 11/11/2001, 1:01 AM
wow... the preset system they have now is bloated, very user-unfriendly, and i don't see any point to the convolutedness of it.

the only way to transfer presets from one Vegas install to another is to copy the proper files along with the proper REGISTRY entries. and it's a different process for different codecs, effects, render settings, etc... there's just no consistency. i have done it successfully but it is far from straight forward. Oh and if you log in as a different user, say bye-bye to all your presets. you'll have to use the same method to transfer presets between users even on the same system!

i don't know if this method works for inter-application preset migration or IAPM, but it's worth a shot. do a search on this forum for 'transfer presets' and you'll find some posts from me explaining how to do it.

- ben