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stepfour wrote on 1/19/2003, 10:38 PM
Last time I dealt with TWAIN, the Tool Without An Interesting Name, it had to do with certain kinds of scanners and, or, digital cameras talking to the computer properly for scanning and transferring pictures. Do you have an older non-USB scanner or other equipment on your system that connects a digital camera through a LPT port? Vegas could be triggering something involved in that.

As far as I know, Vegas itself doesn't use any kind of TWAIN driver or dll. That message is probably coming from something else in your system that is seeing something in Vegas' function that makes it think it should be doing something with Vegas. I'm far from a Vegas expert so perhaps someone who is will chime in. By the way, is this error message also preventing Vegas from running on your system?
penseur99 wrote on 1/20/2003, 4:25 AM
My system seems to work. The program work well to so far, I was mostly wondering what it was affecting.

I got at digital camera but its connecting to a nusb port. No scanner.
GrizzlyIke wrote on 1/20/2003, 5:04 AM
I too started recieving the "Twain" error message, even though it did not appear to affect VV3 performance. About the same time, my flat screen monitor started acting up and about a month later died completely. Bought a new Sony Trinitron monitor and haven't seen the "Twain" error message since. So it is propable your message is being triggered by something in your system. In my case it was the monitor.
Good Luck
Grizzly Ike
mikkie wrote on 1/20/2003, 8:24 AM
Vegas does start the twain drivers, at least in xp pro SP1. Clear out your temp folder [under documents and settings -> then the profile you're logged in as -> then local settings -> temp] & start VV3 & you'll see the twain log etc. appear in this temp folder. If you look at the File menu in VV3, you'll see the option to connect to your camera or scanner, so assume that's why.

FWIW, the twain drivers in windows are old code that allows communication with scanners etc.. It generally doesn't effect anything other then transfer of data from scanners and cameras and such. About the only time it breaks is when you install or uninstall software that uses it. Some software &/or drivers have a slightly modified version that will overwrite the std windows stuff, & others will misbehave on uninstall, assuming you want to remove twain support when you do the uninstall.

mike