Well having V8 throw one of them at me was a new experience.
The nice message about how V8 would continue to run but mightn't be too reliable was an understatement. It continued to run, refused to do anything and refused to die until a hardware reset set it on it's way.
Further grief followed with more uninviting error messages from both V7 and V8. I might have found something worthy of further investigation.
The problems started when I tried to capture HDV from a HDV tape via my M15. Well it wouldn't work for the rather obvious reason that the deck was in DV mode. No problemo though I, switch it into HDV mode and all would be well, That was when things went rapidly downhill with V8 going nuts. So I rebooted via a hard reset, gave up on V8 and went to V7.
Still things were a mess. Removed unpowered firewire HDD from the firewire bus then things got back to normal. So I'm sweet but it seems to me that Vegas can be all too easily spun out completely by an errant firewire port. Many of the newer HDV devices will autoswitch between DV and HDV, Vegas needs to cope with this without going nuts. It's quite possible to create a tape with mixed DV and HDV on it. Vegas shouldn't loose the plot when the VCR switches modes. I'd hazard a guess even a glitch on a tape could cause the VCR to switch modes. That'd explain some of the current grief users are having.
In other words, Vegas needs to be better tested. Not just to ensure that it does what it needs to under ideal conditions but that it doesn't do anything that it shouldn't when things go wrong. Glitches on external devices are common, where tape is involved even moreso. It's not at all difficult to build a test case for these events.
Bob.
The nice message about how V8 would continue to run but mightn't be too reliable was an understatement. It continued to run, refused to do anything and refused to die until a hardware reset set it on it's way.
Further grief followed with more uninviting error messages from both V7 and V8. I might have found something worthy of further investigation.
The problems started when I tried to capture HDV from a HDV tape via my M15. Well it wouldn't work for the rather obvious reason that the deck was in DV mode. No problemo though I, switch it into HDV mode and all would be well, That was when things went rapidly downhill with V8 going nuts. So I rebooted via a hard reset, gave up on V8 and went to V7.
Still things were a mess. Removed unpowered firewire HDD from the firewire bus then things got back to normal. So I'm sweet but it seems to me that Vegas can be all too easily spun out completely by an errant firewire port. Many of the newer HDV devices will autoswitch between DV and HDV, Vegas needs to cope with this without going nuts. It's quite possible to create a tape with mixed DV and HDV on it. Vegas shouldn't loose the plot when the VCR switches modes. I'd hazard a guess even a glitch on a tape could cause the VCR to switch modes. That'd explain some of the current grief users are having.
In other words, Vegas needs to be better tested. Not just to ensure that it does what it needs to under ideal conditions but that it doesn't do anything that it shouldn't when things go wrong. Glitches on external devices are common, where tape is involved even moreso. It's not at all difficult to build a test case for these events.
Bob.