get ready to blast me, but before you take aim consider this. The media Manager is so very bogus, it crashed for Sony yesterday in the class room.

Note: I believe he's referring to the video clip at VegasEditors.com of the Vegas6 training seminar at NAB. In which case, the Media Manager did not "crash." The instructor, Michael Bryant, started the Media Manager and discovered that the clips he was expecting to find had not been copied to the PC he was using. The class attendees, whose computers did have the clips, ran the Media Manager just fine.

Rob

Well, I may someday find this useful as I mentioned. There's actually a lot more that I could find a hell of alot useful than this today. So I guess that's just me.

I have a large collection of Sound FX library CD's. I own most of the Sound Ideas, and Hollywood Edge libraries, with a total CD count of 350+ CD's of Sound FX's. Pretty close to $30K worth of libraries. You know how it's organinzed today and I find Sound FX's? These professiional libraries come with a data base program. If I buy another CD or library, I import the data into the data base program. Now let's say I need a "bird chirp" sound. I open up the data base and I type in "bird chirp", and it list the all my CD's with bird chirps on them with the CD number, the track ID and and a description of what's on the track. I pull my CD's that I'm interested in, audition the sounds and rip the ones I want to put in my project. It's a standard data base the multiple sound FX companies use, and if a company doesn't have their own data base file for that data base that I can import, I can create my own.

So what I've been thinking about my use for this, is maybe one day I'll rip all these CD's to my hard drive as individual tracks. Well that's 350CDs*700Meg each, so that's about 250 Gig of hard drive space I'll have to occupy. Some of these CD's contain 99 Tracks, other contain 20. So let's say on average every CD has 60 tracks I'll need to extract and save as individual files. So that's 350*60=21,000 files. Well that seems like a lot of work to get to that point, if I used my current folder method I would be done at this point and still be able to use my data base program. But now to take advantage of the media manager, I need to go and tag each of those 21000 files. What year is it by this time? Hey, it's the year 2020, and I'm almost done........sh*t!!!! my hard drive just went into the toilet.

I would have to say, this is a glimmer in Sony's eye that all these loop libraries and Sound FX's libraries are going to have tags on them for you and they're trying to create an industry standard tag system based off of their media manager. What's that I hear? Acid loop libraries, and Sony Sound FX libraries already have media manager tags embeded into the files. Hmmmmm? Nice. Now let's all hope the rest of the industry follows along. Oh gee what's that I hear? Avid teamed up with all the professional Sound FX library companies and stock footage companies and created their own media manager standard tag system and the industry decided to follow that? Also in doing so, for users like me they made the previous data base files transferable to media tags so that I don't have to individually tag my 21000 files. What feature are you asking for now? Oh that Vegas Media manager can now have the ability to convert Avid MM tags to Sony MM tags, so you can be up to date with the latest industry standard tags?

So how many other Sony/Sonic Foundry formats has the rest of the industry followed? I can think of one, Acid files. Who else supports Sony .PCA format? It's a great piece of technology don't get me wrong, but please try to be a little insightful on this feature, and where Sony's marketing currently is and it's place in the industry. I'm not saying it won't happen but their vision may not be the industries vision down the road and there's some other heavy weights that the industry tends to follow with open arms.

Media Manager... mine's now turned off Thanks to another thread. (It's 3rd from the bottom on the GENERAL tab under OPTIONS)

I have my Loops and Media setup and 'Managed' already. I definitely don't need anything else running because I too like to run Photoshop, Encore DVD, Vegas, & possibly a Web Browser or two. <-- I'm a multi-tasker. Premiere prevents you from doing this by stopping whenever you click away from the app. I hate that!

I think we all forget that not all of us have 'Professional Workstations.' A lot of people that complain about the Media Manager running are probably on 'Consumer' computers trying to edit. They are probably not on a Dual 3ghz Xeon, w/ 2gigs DDR, 10,000 RPM Dedicated HD's striped in a Raid, etc.

If you are editing on a 'Consumer' computer... you will always have problems trying to run a 'Professional' app. Media Manager or otherwise... you will have hangups and problems.

V6 still hangs on me during start up same as V5. (wowexec.exe)

You just need to replace your twain_32.dll for wowexec problems to go away. Email me -- ideaspora@hotmail.com -- I'll send you the file. Or, just search for "wowexec.exe" here and you'll turn up not only the original thread with the answer, but my thread from about a week ago when I asked about the issue :D

twain_32.dll did the trick!

jlafferty - will you marry me?

Actually... could you fix the AAF problem, take out the trash, do the dishes & laundry, paint the kitchen, replace the garbage disposal, and... and... and...

Seriously, Thank you for the fix!

I searched the forums but that was a while ago in V5. I just thought it was a bug that carried over. I was starting to just deal with it but now I'm stoked!

It's no problems with Media Manager & SQL. You can cancel Media Manager setup. Then disable it in Vegas Preferences.

how to disable Media Manager

About 3 from the bottom of general Preferences.

I tried uncheck and relaunch but it launched checked agian.

JHendrix -- try it again. This also happened to me the first time I tried to turn it off. Vegas 6 came back up with Media Manager on and the box checked. I unchecked & restarted again -- all better.

With this turned off, Vegas 6 starts up VERY fast on my system.