Maybe this will provide value if someone is experiencing issues with Vegas, something else to consider.
Vegas had been very stable, for years, then, unexpectedly, became very problematic, all the usual stuff. I was able to work with Vegas Pro 12, v394, but not v486 at all. I had one computer, with much of the typical software, Office, etc.
So I bought a new computer solely for editing, the latest and greatest, check out the system specs. Immediately this brand new beast of a machine started having difficult with Vegas, and this machine had nothing on it except Vegas and Vegas related utilities. I was ready to beat Vegas with a stick.
I had shared the two computers through my local network, to ease the transfer of files back and forth. As I was troubleshooting, I noticed something odd in v486. The Explorer feature of Vegas displayed the “My Documents” of the shared computer, not the Documents of the current computer. In all my experience, ever, with computers I have never experienced this behavior. The only way I was able to find the “My Documents” of the current computer was to drill down into the Network directories. Additionally, v486 had all the usual crashes and hang-ups. I spent two days with the entire panoply of suggested fixes, complete uninstall, reinstall, settings, blah blah blah, nothing was working.
I then installed v394 and noticed that the directory structure was now correct. The “My Documents” were for the current machine, not the shared machine. However, I still had all the crashes and hang-ups, blah blah blah.
At the end of my rope, extremely frustrated, after all, I just purchased a new machine for Vegas, grasping at straws, I decided to “un-share” the two machines, since there seemed to be something very odd going on within the directory structure. BAM, problems solved on the new machine, at least for 24 hours, so far. Vegas is lightning fast, the plug-ins work, rendering like a scalded dog, can’t find any problems whatsoever, I’m happy.
Vegas still won't perform in the first computer, but nows performs as it should in the new computer. Of course this might be entirely coincidental, just passing this along as another consideration if you find yourself not knowing what to try next, and you have two computers sharing on a network.
Vegas had been very stable, for years, then, unexpectedly, became very problematic, all the usual stuff. I was able to work with Vegas Pro 12, v394, but not v486 at all. I had one computer, with much of the typical software, Office, etc.
So I bought a new computer solely for editing, the latest and greatest, check out the system specs. Immediately this brand new beast of a machine started having difficult with Vegas, and this machine had nothing on it except Vegas and Vegas related utilities. I was ready to beat Vegas with a stick.
I had shared the two computers through my local network, to ease the transfer of files back and forth. As I was troubleshooting, I noticed something odd in v486. The Explorer feature of Vegas displayed the “My Documents” of the shared computer, not the Documents of the current computer. In all my experience, ever, with computers I have never experienced this behavior. The only way I was able to find the “My Documents” of the current computer was to drill down into the Network directories. Additionally, v486 had all the usual crashes and hang-ups. I spent two days with the entire panoply of suggested fixes, complete uninstall, reinstall, settings, blah blah blah, nothing was working.
I then installed v394 and noticed that the directory structure was now correct. The “My Documents” were for the current machine, not the shared machine. However, I still had all the crashes and hang-ups, blah blah blah.
At the end of my rope, extremely frustrated, after all, I just purchased a new machine for Vegas, grasping at straws, I decided to “un-share” the two machines, since there seemed to be something very odd going on within the directory structure. BAM, problems solved on the new machine, at least for 24 hours, so far. Vegas is lightning fast, the plug-ins work, rendering like a scalded dog, can’t find any problems whatsoever, I’m happy.
Vegas still won't perform in the first computer, but nows performs as it should in the new computer. Of course this might be entirely coincidental, just passing this along as another consideration if you find yourself not knowing what to try next, and you have two computers sharing on a network.