I posted this before but I'm posting it again because I get really upset when either people or companies waste my time, in this case Sony for not fixing an obvious bug that I imagine pretty much everybody must have.

Many times I pre-render footage and Vegas will pretend it's doing it, showing the progress dialog, but when it finishes, there are no blue lines over the footage and certainly it doesn't play like it's been pre-rendered. Even more annoying it is that the menu command "Clean up prerendered video" does absolutely nothing, since when I choose it I select "Delete all prerender video files", but when I go to my designated Pre-render folder, all the files are still there!

So I have to delete all the files in the pre-render folder, and only then, I do a pre-render and it works. But of course by then I've lost a lot of time doing a lengthy pre-render for nothing.

When I'm so frustrated by this it's not hard to see why some professional editors consider Vegas a toy. This is a serious bug, and Sony Creative has to get off their butts and fix this!