Upgrade from Movie Studio Platinum 14 to 15

trusso wrote on 5/10/2018, 9:19 AM

After I built my new video workstation, I decided to not install my favorite video editor of all time, Speed Edit, because Newtek discontinued it. I wasn't crazy about Premiere Pro. I used to love Vegas when it was audio only. I never was crazy about Vegas for video editing. I cannot stand the cumbersome crop\pan tool. Takes me forever. That said, I saw Movie Studio Platinum in Best Buy and it looked good so I researched further online and decided to go with the Suite because of the 3rd party software, mainly Sonic Fire Pro. I unistalled 14 because I do not like bloating my computer with multiple versions. I used it for a month and aside from that terrible pan crop tool, it was ok. Then, I saw the deal for version 15 with all of it's bundled software. I immediately bought that too. However, when I upgraded to 15 I got two errors;

Could not load titler.dll error #126
Could not load titler.dll error #0

I contacted Magix and they said that they cannot guarantee the bundled software from version 14 will work with 15. That is not acceptable. In essense, I lost some of the software that made me jump onboard to Vegas. How can they not test the upgrade with the previous bundled software? This is poor programming from my standpoint.

Since they do not seem to be to fix this, has anyone else been able to? It may something as simple as changing a path or reg key..

 

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Vliegvisser wrote on 5/10/2018, 11:22 AM

No problem here with Vpro 13,14 and 15 and VMS pl.14 suite, VMS pl. 15.

trusso wrote on 5/10/2018, 11:37 AM

So, when you open VMS 15, you do not get that titler error? If not, then it is probably because it is looking for a reference to VMS 14, which I uninstalled and do not want on my computer. But, Magix should still test with all of the bundled software from the previous versions before they release the new one. Otherwise, this will happen. And they are not offering any solution to me so I am on my own here.

Vliegvisser wrote on 5/10/2018, 11:49 AM

If not, then it is probably because it is looking for a reference to VMS 14, which I uninstalled and do not want on my computer.

Your decision, not needed, and if this indeed causing your problem its a pity but it is your decision you have to handle with.
Maybe you did not uninstall the whole VMS 14 suite as it had to be?

 

trusso wrote on 5/10/2018, 11:57 AM

Why is it a pity? I purchased version 14 and upgraded to 15. I never keep old versions of software (ie, MS Office, etc). I bought version 15 because it was updated. I would not expect things to start breaking because of the upgrade. I completely uninstalled Vegas 14 but since I paid for the 3rd party programs it was bundled with, installed them individually.. Again, no reason why I can no longer use them, especially when I bought the bundle because of them. Vegas support seems pretty weak to me, though I am having no issues with Magix Samplitude.

Vliegvisser wrote on 5/10/2018, 12:24 PM

... but since I paid for the 3rd party programs it was bundled with, installed them individually.

Indeed, you did not pay them individually but only as working in the bundle together with VMS 14.
When they work with other versions you may be lucky, but it gives you no right to assume they should work in all versions of VMS.
And that I called a pity and you have to live with uninstalling version 14.

Both 14 and 15 can be used together, so if you miss in 15 a FX you can use it in 14 and have to render out it there.