The Future of this forum and staying connected

VMP wrote on 4/15/2016, 5:30 PM

Dear Users,

Like the most of you here, there is no need to explain why love this forum, already since the day I have joined it back in 2002.

Now that Peter has left the forum too: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/showmessage.asp?messageid=942775

I wonder what the future of this forum is and how long it will be available to us.

Worried about this I made an offline backup of this precious forum for my personal use/keeping/reference (offline in my computer).

Here is a scenario that I hope would not happen but:

In case SCS decides to shut down this forum then I hope we get a warning beforehand because I am willing to host this forum with their permission elswere.
But In case this forum gets shut down without any warning, then the backed up info could be used like articles.on a website for future reference.

My question to you, there are various users like, Farss Bob, Grazie, Musicvid, Old smoke Ushere, set and many more that I would like to stay connected with (even if this forum suddenly would not be there anymore)

How can we do this?

Most of you have no contact info on your profiles, looking you guys up with alias wouldn't help either I am guessing.
You can private message me anytime.

Hope this scenario never happens, this is just a precaution.
Here is hoping SCS wil last forever here.

VMP

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monoparadox wrote on 4/20/2016, 10:28 PM

The fact that Sony has chosen to host the Catalyst forum elsewhere isn't reassuring. One has to wonder what their long term strategy is. My guess is they really don't know. Sony will run these (Vegas, SF, et al.) forums as long as it makes economic sense for them. How long did the Cinescore forum hang around? My guess is death will be sudden if/when it comes. They won't do it for goodwill.

-- tom

VMP wrote on 4/20/2016, 10:29 PM

Vidmus,

You have a good point.

But most probably the registration is done via another server and that would be kept alive longer than this forum (hopefully), the forum is separate from that.

Or somehow the one who has the rights to the software might still be able to grant you permission. You paid for that. It's a different story for this forum.

And yet this forum could last for a long time no one knows.

So noting the serial is a good thing to do :-).

As others have stated, most of Sony Pro department have no idea what Vegas Pro is.
I have witnessed this first hand while walking around IBC and asking the Sony Pro company division about SCS and Vegas pro.

So one wonders how hard it would be for them to pull the plug.

VMP

ushere wrote on 4/21/2016, 12:08 AM

well if there is ever a problem i'll simply download a crack somewhere. as much as i disapprove of doing such things if there's no alternative...

VMP wrote on 4/21/2016, 1:10 AM

Indeed ushere,

You have officially bought the lock, it's yours, if the manufacturer doesent supply you the key anymore then you have to get another key to use it.

I don't think that is breaking the law.

VMP

VMP wrote on 4/26/2016, 1:36 AM

15 minutes ago I visited this forum and it was gone VERY SCARY .
This is what I saw:

I thought it was the end still shaking and heart is pounding :-D.
Just when I thought of contacting support, it came online.

I guess they were offline for some maintenance?

VMP

Grazie wrote on 4/26/2016, 1:46 AM

Well, unless there is an Intelligent Robo, this would kinda reveal that somebody overnight (UK here!) was and is employed (paid!) to oversee the maintenance or server swapping, pointing towards Staff billing somewhere at Madison or wherever on the Planet.

And again, the silence from SCS concerning our beloved VP is deafening.

Grazie

VMP wrote on 4/26/2016, 2:16 AM

Good point Grazie, and no sticky about maintenance this time.

At this moment I am happy if they just keep this forum alive even if another VP never comes.

VMP

Richard Jones wrote on 4/26/2016, 6:05 AM

Ditto VMP.

Richard

astar wrote on 4/26/2016, 3:54 PM

Some of those Drone topics should have been marked OT: I guess that gesture has been dropped in the future internet. ;)

JJKizak wrote on 4/26/2016, 6:02 PM

As long as Vegas Pro 13 ---42722 has the pink out of sync sound tracks and the blue markers I will be happy.
JJK

NickHope wrote on 4/26/2016, 11:35 PM

So anyone got any recommendations for methods of downloading the whole forum for offline use, with search functionality?

Grazie wrote on 4/27/2016, 12:26 AM

Nick, you may find that SONY owns it.

About time we heard what the plans are for our beloved VegasPro. Anything else is a diversion.

G

VMP wrote on 4/27/2016, 2:18 AM

The forum was just down again, now it is back up.

VMP

Gene Aum wrote on 4/27/2016, 10:29 PM

I did see this util for downloading forums. Haven't installed/tried it yet but will soon.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/forumdownloader/

Steve