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Ralf wrote on 12/13/2019, 7:13 PM

Really? A couple of gigs of space is super cheap. Cheaper, imho to upgrade your drive and clone it over than to delete/uninstall the older version....which you can do with no ill effects. Each version installs uniquely and can be uninstalled uniquely as well.

Reyfox wrote on 12/27/2019, 3:36 PM

I'd keep both for a while until you are sure that VP17 is stable on your computer.

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Vegas Pro 22 B250 (VP18-21 also installed)

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AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16 cores / 32 threads

64GB DDR4 3200 Patriot Viper

Sapphire RX6700XT 12GB Driver: 25.12.1

Gigabyte X570 Elite Motherboard

Panasonic G9, G7, FZ300

Boris FX Continuum Complete 2025.5.1, Newblue FX Total FX360, Ignite Pro V5, proDAD Vitascene V5 Pro and Mercalli V6.

TheRhino wrote on 12/27/2019, 11:48 PM

I always keep the last couple versions of Vegas... For super large projects, I actually do all of my time-consuming cuts & color work in an older version of Vegas that is rock stable. Then, I load a copy in a newer version of Vegas that has the FX, render codec, or faster render speed I want. One year, I couldn't even get a large project to load into the latest release of Vegas without an error message but I was able to finish it in the older version without any issues. Eventually they released an update that fixed the issue, but in the meantime I had deadlines to meet...

Workstation C with $600 USD of upgrades in April, 2021
--$360 11700K @ 5.0ghz
--$200 ASRock W480 Creator (onboard 10G net, TB3, etc.)
Borrowed from my 9900K until prices drop:
--32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3200 ($100 on Black Friday...)
Reused from same Tower Case that housed the Xeon:
--Used VEGA 56 GPU ($200 on eBay before mining craze...)
--Noctua Cooler, 750W PSU, OS SSD, LSI RAID Controller, SATAs, etc.

Performs VERY close to my overclocked 9900K (below), but at stock settings with no tweaking...

Workstation D with $1,350 USD of upgrades in April, 2019
--$500 9900K @ 5.0ghz
--$140 Corsair H150i liquid cooling with 360mm radiator (3 fans)
--$200 open box Asus Z390 WS (PLX chip manages 4/5 PCIe slots)
--$160 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 3000 (added another 32GB later...)
--$350 refurbished, but like-new Radeon Vega 64 LQ (liquid cooled)

Renders Vegas11 "Red Car Test" (AMD VCE) in 13s when clocked at 4.9 ghz
(note: BOTH onboard Intel & Vega64 show utilization during QSV & VCE renders...)

Source Video1 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 on motherboard in RAID0
Source Video2 = 4TB RAID0--(2) 2TB M.2 (1) via U.2 adapter & (1) on separate PCIe card
Target Video1 = 32TB RAID0--(4) 8TB SATA hot-swap drives on PCIe RAID card with backups elsewhere

10G Network using used $30 Mellanox2 Adapters & Qnap QSW-M408-2C 10G Switch
Copy of Work Files, Source & Output Video, OS Images on QNAP 653b NAS with (6) 14TB WD RED
Blackmagic Decklink PCie card for capturing from tape, etc.
(2) internal BR Burners connected via USB 3.0 to SATA adapters
Old Cooler Master CM Stacker ATX case with (13) 5.25" front drive-bays holds & cools everything.

Workstations A & B are the 2 remaining 6-core 4.0ghz Xeon 5660 or I7 980x on Asus P6T6 motherboards.

$999 Walmart Evoo 17 Laptop with I7-9750H 6-core CPU, RTX 2060, (2) M.2 bays & (1) SSD bay...

Musicvid wrote on 12/28/2019, 12:28 AM

There may be 'shared plugins' from 16 that you could no longer use. If feel you must uninstall 16, at least copy that folder first.

rraud wrote on 12/28/2019, 1:24 PM

"I always keep the last couple versions of Vegas"

+11. They co-exist without issue, so I let sleeping dogs lie. Some plug-ins certainly can be compromised if installed with an earlier Vegas version (been there - done that).