Upgrading Vegas 8 Pro to 9

dbk723 wrote on 5/21/2009, 7:35 AM
I just got the Vegas 9 upgrade and I had a question about installing it - I'm currently using Windows XP Pro, but I plan to install the release candidate version of 64-bit Windows 7 over the weekend and dual-boot my system. Can I install Vegas 9 in the new Windows 7 partition without removing Vegas 8 from my XP partition, or do I need to remove it and create a new machine ID for the 64-bit version?

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LJA wrote on 5/21/2009, 7:57 AM
Having both V8 and V9 in separate partitions, or even in the same machine/same partition is perfectly legal and perfectly good technically. We all run that way. It's absolutely necessary because each version has different problems and limitations. Until we have a stable, reliable V9 with which we can do all of our work, it is often necessary to revert back to V8. Beware, however, that V8 and V9 .veg formats are different. You cannot open a V9 .veg in V8, so once a project is saved in V9 you are committed to V9 (for that project).
rs170a wrote on 5/21/2009, 8:05 AM
You cannot open a V9 .veg in V8, so once a project is saved in V9 you are committed to V9 (for that project).

I've been somewhat successful saving a veg file as an edl to open it up in an earlier version.
I say "somewhat" because, as I recall, some things (generated media- i.e. text?) didn't come up :-(

Mike